HCM City (VNA) – The HCM City Department of Planning and Investment has launched a business registration service through switchboard and supporting services that can help businesses get a new or amended certificate within 15 minutes. Local and FDI companies who want to apply for business registration certificates or make some changes in their existing certificates can call (08) 1080 to fix an appointment with the department’s Business Registration Division. The department says it has also launched services that will help businesses perfect their documents and procedures, tackle promptly cases of wrong names, forms, and other similar problems. In most cases, each set of documents will be processed within 15 minutes free of charge, it says. With sectors where the processing cannot be done immediately and a meeting is required, officials must provide instructions specifying the different papers that need to be submitted. In these cases, businesses can expect to receive their … [Read more...] about Bản in : HCM City offers ‘instant’ business registration
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ASEAN-EU business summit opens in Hanoi – Viet Nam – News
The Hanotimes - The 3rd ASEAN-EU Business Summit kicked off in Hanoi on March 9 with the participation of 700 businesses from the two regions. As part of the 19th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Retreat and the 12th ASEAN Economic Ministers-EU Trade Commissioner Consultations, the event was jointly organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Opening the summit, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the event creates conditions for the business community in ASEAN and the EU to enhance cooperation and links, and express their business expectations. It is even more significant in the context that ASEAN is on the last steps to establishing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015, he said. As a coordinator between ASEAN and the EU, Vietnam supports the development of more intense and effective trade and investment cooperation between ASEAN and the EU in order to reach a new height, the Government leader affirmed. To reach this aim, … [Read more...] about ASEAN-EU business summit opens in Hanoi – Viet Nam – News
PM opens ASEAN-EU Business Summit – Viet Nam – News
The Hanoitimes - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has delivered an important speech to the third ASEAN-EU Business Summit (ASEAN-EU 2013), opened in Hanoi on March 9. The summit is part of the 19th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Retreat and the 12th ASEAN Economic Ministers and EU Trade Commissioner (AEM-EU) Consultations. The summit’s participants also included EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht, Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang, ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh, and 600 representatives from leading ASEAN and EU businesses. In his speech, PM Dung described the summit as a good opportunity for the ASEAN and EU business communities to foster cooperation and connectivity and pass on their recommendations to ASEAN and EU management agencies. The event is especially signifcant as ASEAN nears fulfilling the goal of building its community by 2015 while economic relations between ASEAN and the EU continue to develop. The establishment of the ASEAN community, … [Read more...] about PM opens ASEAN-EU Business Summit – Viet Nam – News
Bản in : SVB interest rate management benefits businesses
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has flexibly managed the interest rate policy to suit the market and currency exchange demand and support businesses, stated SBV Deputy Governor Nguyen Thi Hong. Currently, interest rates are at an ideal level, the same level as in 2005-2006, she noted, adding that both deposit and lending interest rates have dropped compared to those at the end of 2014. Specifically, deposit interest rates fell 0.2-0.5 percent per year, mostly for over six-month terms, while lending interest rates declined by 0.2-0.3 percent per year, standing at about 6-9 percent annually for short-term loans and 9-11 percent for middle- and long-term ones. Recently, inter-bank interest rates have decreased sharply to about 3-3.5 percent per month, which is relatively low and stable, she said. Through the rest of the year, the SBV will continue flexibly introducing and withdrawing money from the market for banks to boost credit growth and better meet market demand, said Hong. The … [Read more...] about Bản in : SVB interest rate management benefits businesses
Bản in : Vietnamese businesses gear up for ASEAN Community
Can Tho (VNA) – The ASEAN Community, due to take shape on December 31, 2015, is expected to offer both opportunities and challenges for Vietnam in general and the Mekong Delta region in particular. ASEAN leaders signed the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the Establishment of the ASEAN Community at the recent 27 th ASEAN Summit in Malaysia. The event is expected to create a major breakthrough for Vietnam’s economy. The ASEAN Community is built on the three pillars – the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the ASEAN Cultural-Social Community and the ASEAN Political-Security Community. The AEC will lift trade barriers; turn ASEAN into a single common market and production base; and promote the free circulation of goods, services, investment and skilled labourers. Vo Tri Thanh, Deputy Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management, said that ASEAN connectivity, particularly in the AEC, will facilitate regional stability, resource mobilisation and investment capital … [Read more...] about Bản in : Vietnamese businesses gear up for ASEAN Community