Gold prices on global markets have made strong gains in the past two months, but investors with short-term appetite seem uninterested in gold. SEE MORE The Viet Nam Rubber Industry Group JSC (GVR) reported revenue and post-tax profit of VND7.6 trillion (US$325 million) and VND1 trillion in the first half of this year, up 8.5 per cent and 15.7 per cent year-on-year, respectively. SEE MORE ‘Made in Viet Nam’ products are required to have a localisation rate of 30 per cent and be partly produced in Viet Nam. SEE MORE Chinese FDI flows are pouring into Vietnam, especially in low added value and labor-intensive sectors, such as the assembling industry, according to Tran Toan Thang, head of the World Economic Department at the National Center for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF). SEE MORE Oil prices rose around 2% on Friday, regaining ground after their biggest falls in years on U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports. SEE MORE