Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet has set its initial public offering (IPO) of 44.78 million shares, equal to 14.9 per cent of the firm’s chartered capital of VNĐ3 trillion (US$133.3 million), to raise US$170 million, Reuters reported on Thursday.

The key point in building smart cities is suitable planning, said Hoàng Lê Minh, director of the Việt Nam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI) at the 2016 IT Day held in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Analog signals will be switched off in eight provinces - Bắc Ninh, Bình Dương, Hà Nam, Hải Dương, Hậu Giang, Hưng Yên, Vĩnh Long and Vĩnh Phúc - on December 30.

Việt Nam expects to gain a year-on-year increase of 6.6 per cent in export value of tra fish for this year to US$1.6 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Authorities in the southernmost province of Cà Mau have pledged to continue with administrative reform and offer the most beneficial policies for investors.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is planning to take trade protection measures against cheap and sub-standard steel products imported from abroad, in line with international trade rules.

The National Electronic Authentication Centre (NEAC) should put in place  technical solutions to manage providers of certificate authentication (CA) services, said Nguyễn Thành Hưng, deputy minister of Information and Communication.

Việt Nam’s stock market advanced for a third day on the two local exchanges, driven by domestic purchases of local shares on the day foreign funds finished their portfolio review.

Transport infrastructure is an attractive investment field in Việt Nam while the acceleration of equitising State-owned enterprises in the country will create brilliant opportunities for businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK).