Since March 7, ACB has decreased lending rates with average level of 1.5% compared with early 2012’s rates. In this year, ACB will spur lending for families, small and medium businesses and individual clients’ production and business.

Viet A Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (VietAbank) has just granted the award of “2011 Vietnam’s strong trademark” by Vienam Economic News and Vietnam Trade Promotion Department.

Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are falling into trouble, due to the impact of the global economic downturn plus high inflation and difficulty in approaching to capital sources…

Many demands

The World Bank and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) have signed a strategic partnership agreement for the next 5 years, confirming their commitment to support Vietnam’s long-term socio-economic development.

Five years after joining the WTO, Vietnam’s GDP per capita reached US$1,300, and its export market have been expanded to 149 WTO economies.

The pay television is in a high growth of subscribers with nearly 100% per year. Therefore, Vietnam has been considered as the most potential television market in the Asia-Pacific region. Hence, race of pay-TV service has become fiercer.

According to an announcement, the Finance Ministry adjusted domestic selling prices of kinds of gasoline and oil. Specifically, A92 petrol was raised from VND20,800 per litre to VND22,900 while mazut jumped by 12% to VND18,800 per litre. Kerosene rose by 3% to VND20,800 per litre and diesel increased by 5% to VND21,400 per litre.

Phuoc Hoa Rubber JSC just held an annual meeting of members to report business results in 2011 as well as share allocation.

Yakult Vietnam Co.Ltd. is under Japanese Yakult Group appearing across 32 territories and operating over 75 years. Appeared in Vietnam in 2006, Yakult Vietnam Co.Ltd. located at VISIP has a total area of 24,000sqm. The company got standards of HACCP and ISO 2000:2005 in 2010.

‘Safe’ vegetables are planted under project of “building up regions producing safe vegatables in Binh Duong Province from 2010 to 2012” covering 5 hectares of land in Tan Uyen. Besides, in Uyen Hung of Tan Uyen, the areas are expanding to 20 hectares where 21 household producers are working for various types of vegetables including cucumber, leave onion, bitter melon, cabbage, morning glory, and basella alba. They are in a bid to join up in production and consumption.

Vincom Joint Stock Co, Vietnam's leading real estate developer, said on March 6 that it aims to raise up to US$300 million through an issue of convertible bonds in international markets.

The view was shared by domestic and foreign experts at a conference in Hanoi on March 6 to look at outlook for Vietnam’s agricultural production.

Completion of goal of building Binh Duong into a modern, civilized and distinctive urban area is a very important task and needs positive measures.