The HCM Stock Exchange is switched off for maintenance today following its crash during the At-the-Closing (ATC) period on Monday.

The Public Procurement Agency, under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, will take measures to double the number of online bidding this year.

The Việt Nam Footwear Summit 2018 will take place from March 21-22 at The Reverie Sài Gòn Hotel in HCM City.

The HCM City Tax Department plans to continue to collect taxes from online businesses that use Facebook and other social media sites.  

Renovating the growth model and raising productivity are the key tasks to develop Việt Nam’s economy, said Vũ Tiến Lộc, chairman of the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), at a conference held in Hà Nội on Monday.

Commercial banks are optimistic about the foreign exchange market in 2018, noting that the market would be stable with the Vietnamese đồng devaluing slightly by some 0.5-1 percentage points to VNĐ22,710 to VNĐ22,950.

Việt Nam’s shrimp industry will become a key economic sector with sustainable development that is environmentally friendly and can withstand the challenges of climate change, if the national action plan for the development of the shrimp industry by 2025 that was approved by the Prime Minister meets its targets.

The Government needs to enlarge the scale of the market and lure more State-owned enterprises to list shares through speeding up their equitisation, according to Lưu Trung Thái, Vice Chairman of the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank.

Việt Nam’s cashew industry has targeted 300,000 tonnes of cashew exports at a value of US$3 billion this year, a year-on-year reduction of 50,000 tonnes in volume and $500 million in value, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association.