Experts from the business research group Conference Board said the Vietnamese economy is not likely to experience seismic changes if US president-elect Donald Trump says no to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal.   

The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) raised again today the reference USD/VND exchange rate by 8 Vietnamese đồng, taking it to a record high of VND22,101 per US dollar.

Mr. Stephen Wyatt, General Director of JLL Vietnam, spoke with VET about proposals to tax the purchase of second homes.

The Vietnamese government has many times vowed to boost the equitisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), but the process has remained sluggish.

A scheme on Vietnam’s industrial development policy is being completed to give a fresh boost to the industry two years after the Prime Minister signed two decisions approving the nation’s industrial development strategy. 

The domestic sector has lost the local and export forestry markets to the foreign sector, Huynh Van Hanh, general director of the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of Ho Chi Minh City has said.