VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprises still find it difficult to access bank loans due to sky-high lending rates and low confidence of lenders in them, heard a meeting between the HCMC authorities and businessmen on Tuesday.

Commercial banks have continued to pump capital into key sectors in an attempt to stimulate the economy, but they have also limited the provision of credit to real estate and securities areas,

Experts have pointed out that more and more small and medium enterprises (SMEs) utilize e-commerce in doing business. They have also noted the increasingly high popularity of the e-marketplace.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Corporate income tax rates will fall from 25 per cent to 23 per cent in 2014, under a draft revision to the Law on Corporate Income Taxation issued yesterday, Dec 12, by the Ministry of Finance.