The Hà Nội Stock Exchange held 11 auctions of government bonds (G-bonds) in March, mobilising more than VNĐ11 trillion (US$482.9 million) for the State budget.

Around 300 local enterprises are taking part in the Vietnamese High-Quality Products Fair that opened on April 3 in HCM City.

The municipal People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Văn Tùng attributed this positive result to the city’s ongoing efforts to foster administrative reforms, improve its investment climate, accelerate investment promotion and resolve difficulties for investors in implementing their projects here.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) last week announced the initiation of anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into the import of laminated woven sacks (LWSs) from Việt Nam.

Audio Visual Global (AVG) has paid VNĐ2.5 trillion (US$109.5 million) to MobiFone, a State-owned business under management of the Ministry of Information and Communication, after the two sides cancelled the mutual share transfer agreement on March 12.

The money supply in the economy, as of March 20, increased 3.23 per cent against the end of 2017, the highest in four years, according to the General Statistics Office.

Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank (PGBank) will hold a shareholders’ meeting on April 21 to discuss its restructuring plan.

Tiên Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TPBank) has announced that 555 million of its shares will debut on HCM Stock Exchange (HoSE) on April 19 with code TPB.

A recent proposal by the Ministry of Finance to clear over VNĐ26.5 trillion (US$1.16 billion) of tax arrears, accounting for more than a third of all tax arrears and irrecoverable fines, has raised public concern about the fairness and transparency of handling tax debts.