

The Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MSB) is proposing shareholders approve a plan to raise VNĐ1 trillion (US$43 million) from private share issuance in the second half of this year.
Almost all Vietnamese people will use smartphones by 2020, said minister of Information and Communications, Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng.
Việt Nam Rubber Group must strive to increase its annual revenue to reach US$10 billion, given its advantage of owning more than 400,000 hectares of agricultural and forestry land, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ said at a meeting with the group on Thursday.
Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank (PG Bank) targets pre-tax profit of VNĐ211 billion (US$9.06 million) in 2019 and total assets to reach nearly VNĐ32.74 trillion by December 31, 2019, a year-on-year increase of 9 per cent.
PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas) has announced its post-tax profit in the first quarter was up 16 per cent year on year to VNĐ3.03 trillion (US$130.2 million).
Over 128.4 million tonnes of cargo were handled through Việt Nam’s seaports in the first quarter of this year, up 7 per cent annually, according to the Việt Nam Maritime Administration (VMA).
The Lâm Đồng-based Việt Green Maca Company reported that it shipped about 10 tonnes of macadamia nuts to the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Singapore in March.
Việt Nam's fiscal deficit will stay high at 5.7 per cent (including interest repayment) in 2019 due to delays in the divestment of State-owned enterprises (SOE) and lower import tax revenues, according to Fitch Group’s Fitch Solutions forecast.
The execution of guarantee for customs clearance will be piloted in 2021-22 in an effort to enhance trade facilitation, a customs official said.