Industrial revolution facts

On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, key stocks lost steam, with the HNX-Index sliding 0.78 point, or 0.7%, at 109.3. Trade tumbled given the lack of large block deals, with volume and value shrinking 30.5% and 57.8% versus the previous day at 30.7 million shares worth VND366.6 billion. … [Read more...] about Speculative stocks keep VN-Index afloat

Consumption trends from recent years reflect that Vietnamese consumers are more willing to take up cash loans or instalment loans to buy consumer goods such as cell phones, laptops, cars, or machines, and to use travel, health, and beauty services instead of using their savings in order to address pressing needs and improve their living standards. … [Read more...] about CIMB Bank joins hands with Sendo to promote fast digital loan solution

Another ride-hailing driver Tran Anh Tuan said that drivers will struggle to meet the new requirements as many of them took up loans to finance their ride-hailing business. Freelance drivers might pull out of the ride-hailing platforms due to lower incomes, which will increase unemployment rates and so indirectly impact the country’s economic growth, state budget, and social wellbeing. … [Read more...] about Confusion over proposal to install taxi sign on ride-hailing cars

To promote bilateral trade, Deputy Minister Hưng asked the Indian Importers Chambers of Commerce and Industry to support trade promotion among Indian businesses and consumers to increase consumption of Vietnamese agro-fishery products, especially dragon fruit and tra fish, to support Vietnamese farmers in the current difficult time. … [Read more...] about Việt Nam aims to boost exports to India to solve virus difficulties

Vinh Phuc (VNA) – Two patients with COVID-19 in the northern province of Vinh Phuc were discharged from hospital on February 18 afternoon. The women received treatment at a general clinic in Binh Xuyen district of the province. They are the first two COVID-19 patients to be successfully cured at a district-level medical facility. The 42-year-old woman is a relative of and had close contact with a female worker of the Nihon Plast company in Binh Xuyen Industrial Park of Vinh Phuc. This worker was tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 after she and seven colleagues had returned from a two-month training course in China’s Wuhan city, the centre of the epidemic. The other case is 29 years old and she was in the same group of Nihon Plast workers returning from Wuhan. Earlier on February 18, two other COVID-19 patients were discharged from the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. They are a 29-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, both … [Read more...] about Two COVID-19 patients in Vinh Phuc discharged from hospital