Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

“The sooner you French investors come to the Vietnamese market, the bigger fish you can catch,” a Vietnamese senior state official told the Vietnam–France Business Forum held in Ho Chi Minh City early last week.

The Ministry of Finance is drafting the amended VAT law to be submitted to the National Assembly for ratification in the upcoming National Assembly’s 5th session. Under the draft, more products would be subject to the 5 percent tax instead of the current rate of 10 percent.

Vietnam's central bank governor has urged banks to cut loan rates by 2-3 percentage points to below 13 percent to help struggling businesses and boost an economy growing at its slowest pace in 13 years, according to state media.

Le chiffre d’affaires entre les pays de l’Union douanière (UD) et le Vietnam peut quadrupler déjà vers 2020. La Russie, le Bélarus et le Kazakhstan, faisant partie de l’UD, ont engagé des pourparlers avec la partie vietnamienne en vue de conclure un accord sur une zone de libre échange.

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a master plan to restructure the economy, overhaul banks and speed up share sales of state-owned companies to bolster growth that is at its lowest since 1999.

Hanoi - Vietnam has approved a broad plan to boost its economy to 2020, focusing on restructuring public investment, banks and state-owned enterprises while controlling inflation and maintaining growth.

The Vietnamese Communist Party, once credited for opening the country and joining the global economy, is in crisis. Its factional conflict, economic mismanagement and inattention to quality-of-life issues have eroded its claim to be "the force leading the state and society."

HANOI - Vietnam’s higher inflation is forecast to warrant double-digit rates this year, which will challenge the Government’s drive to stabilize the macro-economy.

Last year saw a number of Vietnamese state-owned enterprise officials being arrested for economic crimes or “irregularities” at the companies under their care.

HCMC – Haiphong surpassed Hanoi and HCMC to take over the second spot in foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction in 2012.

The low CPI rise, the first trade surplus in 20 years, and the suspected price transfers/ tax evasion are among the economic highlights of 2012.

La plus grande banque du Japon Mitsubishi UFJ a acheté 20% de la banque d'Etat vietnamienne Vietinbank, soit la plus importante opération dans le secteur bancaire en crise du pays communiste, ont annoncé jeudi les deux partenaires.

Vietnam’s economy grew at the slowest pace in 13 years in 2012 as a fourth-quarter pickup failed to counter a slowdown in bank lending and domestic demand.

A new middle class emerged for the first time in Vietnam in the 1990s. It has won a few freedoms, but remains fragile. Now, the global economic crisis threatens to undo the achievements.

HA NOI — The number of enterprises which dissolved or halted operations had reached 48,000 in the first 11 months and were anticipated to hit 55,000 by the end of this year, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong reported at an investment forum on Tuesday.