Local small business marketing

Vincent played for Hanoi Buffaloes when he came back to Việt Nam from the Netherlands in 2017 and was traded last season to the City Wings. His contributions to both teams have been immense. Despite being only 1.8m tall, with his amazing dribbling skills and speed he makes many bigger men look clumsy on the court. He has become the leader at City Wings and led them to first place after the regular season. Last year he also won the Heritage MVP award. … [Read more...] about Top five local and overseas Vietnamese players in basketball league

Particularly, KienlongBank reduced more than 25 percent of the total interest for more than 85,000 customers who are on installment loans from April 3 to June 30. These customers mainly are lottery ticket sellers, motorbike taxi drivers, and small businesses. From now until December 31, MSB launched a VND7-trillion credit package with preferential interest rates for unsecured loans and mortgage loans of individual customers who were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Accordingly, MSB applied an interest rate of 12.99 percent in the first 12 months for unsecured loans. As for mortgage loans, customers can choose preferential interest rate of 6.99 percent per annum in the first six months, 7.99 percent per annum in the first 12 months, or 8.75 percent per annum in the first 18 months. BIDV also cut its interest rates by up to 1 percent for existing unsecured personal loans of individual customers. As for unemployed workers who receive an unemployment benefit of VND1.8 million, the bank … [Read more...] about Commercial banks cut interest rates for Covid-19 affected individual customers

In coastal areas of Ben Tre Province, after mass die-off of thousands of tons of clams, cooperatives and farmers have cleaned up the farming areas to prevent pollution and are closely monitoring the salinity level to wait for favorable conditions to increase clam farming for export. In Soc Trang Province, Mr. Vo Van Choi, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ngoc To Commune in My Xuyen District, said that in the past months, due to high salinity levels, nearly 1,900 hectares of shrimps were behind schedule. To prevent losses, authorities recommended farmers to raise shrimps perfunctorily and sparsely with low density. At the same time, farmers should closely monitor and wait for the salinity to decline before increasing shrimp farming in the future. According to Mr. Nguyen Van Quoc, Deputy Head of the Department of Fisheries of Tra Vinh Province, every year, the province raises 25,000 hectares of shrimps but this year, the raising ratio merely accounts for 30 percent of that … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta provinces increase production after saltwater intrusion, drought

One of the reasons that caused the VN-Index to drop by more than 31 percent in the first three months of the year was foreign investors’ capital withdrawal which also created strong pressure on the market, especially large-cap stocks. Particularly, foreign investors net sold more than VND10 trillion in the first quarter of this year or a total volume of 543.6 million shares. Their heavy buying in January encouraged several stocks to make a breakthrough, especially before the lunar New Year. However, in February and March, due to the complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, foreign investors continuously net sold. In March alone, they net sold up to VND8.83 trillion, or 430 million shares. … [Read more...] about Foreign investors net sell more than VND10 trillion in Q1

Domestic airlines reduce flight frequency to fight COVID-19 The Ministry of Transport green-lit the Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam’s proposal to limit domestic flights from Ha Noi and HCM City to other cities and provinces to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). … [Read more...] about Airlines face hardships as number of flights plummet