VietNamNet Bridge - The proposal by the national oil and gas group PetroVietnam to force domestic enterprises to buy petroleum products from domestic sources will create a monopoly, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has warned.

Indonesian Sumatra has threatened to sue Vinataba in international court after Vinataba submitted a dossier to the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) to register JET & HERO trademarks. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) decision that intermediate school graduates will not be employed by hospitals and healthcare throughout the country has raised controversy.

VietNamNet Bridge - Information technology (IT) firms, seaport and real estate developers are expected to do well in 2016 despite challenges to the national economy.

Vietnam's stock markets may face strong fluctuations this week as investors show concern over global oil prices and the drive for short profits from stocks that saw big jumps this week, brokerage firms wrote in their weekly reports.

VietNamNet Bridge - If capital outflow returns to Vietnam in 2016 thanks to global integration effects, the Vietnamese stock market may become more attractive than last year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Considering the effect of the rollercoaster year that was, including the crash of China’s stock market and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The stock market will see large improvements on both local markets this year, despite many problems in both local and global economic conditions, said a Vietnam Investment Securities Company analyst.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many new upstarts have emerged, causing big changes in the ranking of rich Vietnamese.

 Vietnam’s stock market is forecast to face a range of hurdles in 2016, said Vu Bang, Chairman of the State Securities Commission of Vietnam (SSC) at a ceremony to round out the top ten stock market events in 2015 in Hanoi on December 28.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts believe that the most important factor that may have a negative impact on the stock market is the exchange rate fluctuation.

VietNamNet Bridge - The valuation of Vietnamese companies on the stock market is lower than 40-50 percent than in neighboring markets, according to Dominic Scriven.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Thanh Vu, general director of a construction and building materials trading company that is listed in HCM City, recently decided to sell some of his stock holding in his company 

VietNamNet Bridge - It is highly possible that the plan to equitize 289 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in 2015 could fail once again.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though the VN Index has lost 3.76 percent, the Vietnamese stock market is still listed among the best performing markets in the world.

 Shares in London and elsewhere in Europe rebounded at the start of trading, despite another night of steep falls for the Chinese stock market.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese stock market, with its small scale, is unable to absorb large amounts of shares to be sold by equitized state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

VietNamNet Bridge - Any happening in the world, from war, gold price fluctuations to politicians’ speeches can have an immediate impact on the Vietnamese market.

VietNamNet Bridge - A number of foreign investors have withdrawn their cash from Vietnam because of the appreciation of the dollar and the recovery of the European stock markets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign investors may wholly own securities and fund management companies in Vietnam from this year,