With its favourable location, good infrastructure and moderate land prices, the southern province of Đồng Nai has become the focus of attention of property developers in recent years, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

The Ministry of Finance’s intention to impose a so-called asset tax on second-home owners must be studied carefully to prevent negative impact on the real estate market, which still lacked transparency, experts said.

Việt Nam Post Corporation (VNPost) will auction its stake of 8.79 million shares in Post and Telecommunications Tourism Joint Stock Company, equivalent to 90.22 per cent of the charter capital.

The central province of Quảng Ngãi has called for new investors in six projects that had their investment licences revoked due to delays from 2010 to 2015.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is in the process of constructing a new resolution on artels across the country, in which these economic units would receive their own serial registration number and generally the same treatment as normal businesses.

The Government Inspectorate has found irregularities in the management of BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) and BT (Build-Transfer) projects in HCM City, including the use of inappropriate contractors.

Transactions in the domestic gold bar market dropped sharply as many gold holders selling their precious metal for Vietnamese đồng to reinvest in business, production and consumption.

Latest instructions from Lê Minh Hưng, Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) require credit institutions and commercial bank offices in Việt Nam to strictly comply with the SBV’s regulations on foreign currencies capital mobilisation without going over the interest rates ceiling.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) protested a new US anti-dumping duty on tra frozen fillets from Việt Nam.