As many as 460 firms from the United States have been licensed to ship meat and meat products to Vietnam, while 210 others have registered for seafood exports to the country, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on February 25, ensuring new suppliers for the local market to ease shortages.

Customers of 17 out of 45 commercial banks have been exempted from or offered a reduction of up to 90% of the fee for fast interbank money transfer transactions valued at VND500,000 and under.

Vietnam’s national tourism authority on February 25 strongly recommended international tour operators in the country suspend tours to Daegu City and other South Korean localities hit by the new coronavirus.

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Donald Lambert, principal private sector development specialist, Southeast Asia Department at the ADB, provides three key strategies that can help Vietnam achieve its ambitious development targets in the coming years.

The Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA) has lauded the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment in bringing a measure of clarity to condotel and tourist villa regulations but pointed out that certain property types have been left out of the scope of the new framework.