Renovation, innovation and disruption are the drivers that will help retailers integrate into the tech world and the creative economy, speakers said on Thursday at a retail technology summit held in HCM City.

Although the VN-Index successfully surpassed the 1,000-point landmark on Thursday morning, it did not maintain the uptrend in the afternoon as the large selling force put pressure on many large-caps.

Construction and real estate group Sao Mai (ASM) on March 20 will finalise the list of beneficial shareholders that will receive bonus shares for 2017 and 2018’s performance.

Military Joint Stock Commercial Bank (MB) has bought back 47 million treasury shares for VNĐ1.3 trillion (US$56 million).

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. 

The rapid growth of the digital economy in the past few years has speeded up the evolution of the retail industry and changed consumers' shopping behaviours, requiring retailers to innovate to better serve customers’ diverse needs and provide them with better shopping experiences.

Strong cash flow poured into the market on Wednesday helping the indices reverse from the morning session and climb in the afternoon.

On busy Orchard Road in Singapore is a very famous hotpot restaurant where customers have to wait an hour or two to be served even if they had booked a table a day ago.

The second Indochina Retail Technology and Innovation Summit, a conference focusing on retail technology, takes place on Thursday in HCM City.

Japan’s Taisho Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has proposed increasing its ownership in DHG Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company by 21.7 per cent.