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Four photos capturing daily life and traditions in Vietnam have been named among the 60 finalists in an annual contest organized by American magazine Smithsonian. The 60 finalists are in six categories, Natural World, American Experience, Travel, People, Altered Images, and Mobile, and were selected from more than 44,000 entries …

A member of staff talking to a customer at Vietcombank’s transaction office. VNA/VnExpress News Photo Trần Việt  HÀ NỘI — Shareholders are now focusing on news about bank dividends, especially as banks have been doing well throughout the past year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The draft document of the 2022 …

  Many experts believed that the proposal to impose prices floor on air tickets in 2021 was against Competition Law. Photo vietnamnet.vn HÀ NỘI — Vietnam Competition and Consumer Authority (VCCA) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have recently surveyed several small and medium firms to assess their awareness of Competition Law. …

VietinBank Securities eyes record profits again this year though the stock market itself is likely to be down. Its board has approved a profit target of VND505 billion ($22 million), 5 percent up from last year. Last year pre-tax profits tripled to VND480 billion on revenues of VND1.06 trillion. Tran …

HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam aims to be in the top 10 deep processing centres of the world by 2030. However, experts say if the Government’s solutions and policies are not implemented synchronously, this goal will be challenging. According to the Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Market Development from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), there are currently …

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index gained 0.59 percent Tuesday, its sixth straight winning session, with trading value hitting nine-session high. The index stayed in the green throughout the day and closed at 1,503.78 points, the first time it crossed the 1,500 points threshold since March 4. Trading value on the Ho Chi …

Duolingo, the world’s leading language learning app, said Vietnam is its largest market in Southeast Asia but it is yet to monetize its products. Haina Xiang, its head of marketing for China and Southeast Asia, said the number of active users in Vietnam grew by 67 percent a month in …

  FLC Group and Laos’ Petroleum Trading Lao Public Company (PetroTrade) sign a memorandum of understanding on the development of the Vientiane-Vung Ang railway project. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo VIENTIANE — Vietnamese and Lao businesses discussed ways to speed up the implementation of large-scale Vietnamese-invested projects in Laos and seek new cooperation projects of strategic …

Vietnamese company FLC will join hands with Laos’ Petroleum Trading Lao Public Company to build a $5-billion railroad line between the two countries. They signed a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation in the Laotian capital Vientiane Monday. The 555-kilometer line will connect Laos’ capital Vientiane with Vung Ang Port …

The tax department has set up a website for collecting tax from foreign companies to make it easier for tech giants like Facebook and Google to fulfill their duties. The Portal of the General Department of Taxation for Foreign Providers (etaxvn.gdt.gov.vn) came online Monday for companies to declare their tax …