Preferential loans for agricultural production target wrong subjects
24/05/2012 02:25:00 PM (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge – The government has been urged to stop providing preferential loans to enterprises to help them collect rice from farmers, because the program does not help agricultural production.

Businesses want self-determination on wages
24/05/2012 12:02:00 PM (GMT+7)
Businesses have voiced their opposition against the deep intervention of the state to their wage policies.


 
Big banks’ CEOs receive smaller pay than small banks’
24/05/2012 10:06:00 AM (GMT+7)
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of one of the biggest banks in Vietnam received 80 million dong a month, while a colleague of his, who managed a smaller bank, got 200 million dong.

Retailers fear deflation
24/05/2012 08:04:00 AM (GMT+7)
The retail industry is experiencing the gloomiest days with products unsold and merchants leaving the market. Most of the enterprises which got bankrupted in the first four months of the years were retailers.


 
Support for businesses ‘to be distributed fairly'
24/05/2012 11:22:37 AM (GMT+7)
Minister of Finance Vuong Dinh Hue assured the public on Tuesday that the Government's VND29 trillion (US$1.38 billion) business support package would make it into the hands of the people who needed it most via a transparent process.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 24/5
24/05/2012 07:00:00 AM (GMT+7)
Fuel traders offer big commission for agents; Ocean Bank to sell 15% stake to Hermes Capital; New information disclosure rules to apply beginning June 1; Sacombank real estate arm posts high profit in first quarter


 
Investors fleeing from resort real estate projects
23/05/2012 02:03:00 PM (GMT+7)
The investors, who believed that resort real estate, unlike other property market segments, would never fall into decay, have changed their thoughts and tried to run away from the market.

The situation of businesses worse than thought
23/05/2012 12:27:00 PM (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge – The figures released by taxation bodies, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Small and Medium Enterprises’ Association and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), all show that a lot of businesses are sinking.


 
Hoang Anh Gia Lai’s health situation raises controversy
23/05/2012 08:10:00 AM (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge – The rapid-fire pieces of news about the big debts incurred by Hoang Anh Gia Lai and the slow sale of its real estate products have raised doubts about the health of the conglomerate.

Rising incomes, fuel prices drive inflation
23/05/2012 12:20:00 PM (GMT+7)
The increase in basic salary and petrol price were key factors in the rising CPI this month in Ha Noi and HCM City, statistics showed.


 
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 23/5
23/05/2012 07:00:00 AM (GMT+7)
Hanoi CPI up 0.16 percent in May; Pepper exports to see substantial growth; Deposit interest rates may fall to 9% by year's end; Economic crisis hits Q2 export orders; Rule to limit foreign currency loans

Vietnam expects to boost exports with VAT refund scheme
23/05/2012 07:52:49 AM (GMT+7)
Vietnam now has the great opportunity of earning billions of dollars a year more from exports thanks to the value added tax (VAT) immunity policy applied to the foreigners and overseas Vietnamese passing through the country's two biggest airports.


 

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