About 190 foreign investors were granted securities trading codes in February, bringing the total number of foreign investors participating in Việt Nam’s securities market to 29,454, according to statistics of the Việt Nam Securities Depository (VSD).

The central city has proposed selling 10,000 apartments under State ownership to pay for new housing projects in 2020-30.

Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung has approved more than 88ha of land in the capital city for the Formula One (F1) race, which is slated to take place in April 2020.

Việt Nam ranked fourth in the world in its Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) of 122 percentage points (pp) in the final quarter of last year, according to the Conference Board Global Consumer Confidence Survey conducted in collaboration with Nielsen, a global measurement company.

Retailers nationwide, including fashion companies, restaurants, service providers and online shopping platforms, are offering attractive promotion programmes for women on International Women Day, which falls on March 8.

Detailed support policies were needed to promote the development of social enterprises, experts have said.

Investors in Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts will be asked to stop collecting fees if they don’t apply electronic toll collection (ETC) by the end of the year.

Despite reaching US$1 billion in annual revenue and recording 9.6 per cent growth, the central province of Quảng Ngãi was facing a series of challenges due to unstable socio-economic development, small scale investment, slow economic structure change, an unskilled labour force and poor urban development.

Commercial banks have begun to offer loans with preferential interest rates and long repayment periods for household solar-energy projects.