Viettel’s subscribers who use Unitel in Laos and Metfone in Cambodia will be offered a 60 percent discount to US$0.10  per minute when using roaming services. The roaming service allows Viettel’s subscribers to use their own mobile phone number with services such as SMS, GPRS, EDGE and EG Data in foreign countries. Under this policy, Viettel’s roaming subscribers using Unitel and Metfone will... 

HCMC – Technological and Commercial Bank of Vietnam, or Techcombank, has combined with Rêv Asia Pacific Co. to launch a virtual card called Rêv Visa Internet Card that allows customers to buy goods via the internet. Rêv Visa Internet Card is a pre-paid card and does not require the holder to have a bank account. A customer just needs to buy a scratch card with the desired amount of money, then... 

Analysts have warned that the price of cars will increase as a result of the dong/dollar exchange rate adjustment. In mid-August 2010, the State Bank of Vietnam unexpectedly raised the official dong/dollar exchange rate from 18,544 dong per dollar to 18,932 dong per dollar. The new exchange rate has been in effect since August 18, 2010, while the forex trading band has been unchanged at +/-3 percent,... 

A steady performance overnight by the Dow Jones strengthened domestic investor confidence in local stock exchanges, helping lift the VN-Index for a third day to a close of 458.75 points, an increase of 0.81 per cent. The volume of trades on the HCM City Stock Exchange remained modest at 46.7 million shares, worth a total of VND1.2 trillion (US$61.5 million). On the Ha Noi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index... 

The yen’s gradual appreciation has given exporters an edge, but adds to the nation’s debt repayment burden. At 4 pm on August 24, Japan’s currency, the yen, hit an historic high, closing at 84.34 to the American dollar.  Yen 106.14 would buy a euro. That’s a problem for Japanese policy makers, who’d like to see the yen’s value drop.  The island nation’s growth slowed in the second quarter...