Railway planning gathers steam

Railway planning gathers steam

Railway transport development planning is on track.
Time to spend to bolster development

Time to spend to bolster development

Deputy head of the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Central Institute for Economic Management Tran Kim Chung highlights the need to scale-up capital disbursement, particularly that of public investment, to spur economic development.
Viettel climbs to top of the pile

Viettel climbs to top of the pile

Military-run Viettel set to beat leading state group VNPT in its 2013 business targets.
NA gets budget conscious

NA gets budget conscious

The state budget implementation arrived on the National Assembly’s October 31 session agenda.
LG annouces third-quarter 2012 financial results

LG annouces third-quarter 2012 financial results

LG Electronics (LG) today reported a solid third-quarter performance with the third consecutive quarter of positive net income and all four companies recording strong operating profits.
Banks’ NPLs still an elephant in the room

Banks’ NPLs still an elephant in the room

The banking system’s accumulation of bad debt and the transparency of inspection results of credit institutions have become a hot topic of discussion. Truong Ngoc Anh, chief of the Secretariat of the Banking Supervisory Agency, shares his views with VIR’s Nguyen Trang.
Importing higher tax revenue

Importing higher tax revenue

Easing import procedures is being proposed to boost tax revenue.
Mega highways face different paths

Mega highways face different paths

Competent state agencies are weighing up the best-case scenarios for two mega highway projects.
MoF gets economy moving

MoF gets economy moving

The Ministry of Finance (MoF), as part of Resolution 01/ND-CP, has released many solutions to control inflation, offer macro economy stability and social security assurance. Deputy Minister MoF Do Hoang Anh Tuan gives his general view of the national finance picture in the first six months of this year.
Vietcombank: Bad debt still under control at 3 pc

Vietcombank: Bad debt still under control at 3 pc

The Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) announced on June 26 that its bad debt is still under control at 3 per cent.
Thinking on the bright side

Thinking on the bright side

The Ministry of Planning and Investment forecasted around 12,000 firms will be dismantled in 2012 against 7,000 dissolved firms in 2011.
$30 bln set aside for construction, socio-economic tasks

$30 bln set aside for construction, socio-economic tasks

The government will earmark almost VND634 trillion ($30 billion) of the 2012 state budget for activities such as construction, debt payment and other socio-economic and national defence tasks.
The curly question of budget spending

The curly question of budget spending

The 2012 budget plan is currently a hot topic at the National Assembly agenda. Its Finance and Budget Committee senior expert Bui Duc Thu sheds some light on the issue.
National Assembly approves VND59 trillion for salary increase in 2012

National Assembly approves VND59 trillion for salary increase in 2012

The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) approved VND59.3 trillion ($2.83 billion) for salary increases in the 2012 at a meeting on November 10.
Banks’ bond buys could leave firms in the lurch

Banks’ bond buys could leave firms in the lurch

Concerns are growing over commercial banks’ enormous purchase of government bonds. Ho Chi Minh City’s National Assembly deputy Tran Du Lich said looking at the government’s 2011-2015 government bond issuance programme, many deputies were worried that enterprises would continue finding it hard to borrow from banks, as they did in 2010.
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