Việt Nam News

Shares rose for the fourth consecutive session on Tuesday with an improvement of liquidity, largely on the strength of a handful of banking and individual blue-chips.

Source India 2018, India's largest manmade fiber exhibition, is expected tol provide opportunities for Vietnamese textile firms to network and strengthen business relationships, Shri P. Harish, Ambassador of India to Viet Nam, said at a business meeting yesterday (July 17) in HCM City.

The Việt Nam Information and Communication Technologies Outlook (VIO 2018) seminar to be held in HCM City on July 25 and 26 is expected to provide IT companies and businesses with an opportunity to connect and expand the market for Vietnamese ICT products.

Cần Thơ City has listed 54 projects calling for foreign investment worth total VNĐ124 trillion (US$5.4 billion) at its upcoming investment conference, expected on August 9-10 this year.

Shares rose towards the end of Wednesday’s session as investors snapped up opportunities as positive first-half earnings reports came in.

The Việt Nam Institute for Economic and Policy Research has suggested devaluing the Vietnamese đồng against the US dollar, but at a slower rate than the depreciation of China’s yuan against the greenback.

The Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD) on Wednesday said it would apply a new minimum initial margin ratio of 13 per cent instead of the previous 10 per cent for VN30 Index futures to avoid violations and ensure the security of the derivatives market.

The 11^th International Exhibition of Electrical Technology and Equipment (Vietnam ETE) and the 8^th International Exhibition of Products, Technologies for Energy Saving and Green Power (Enertec Expo) opened today (July 18) in HCM City.

Four of the eight companies that have been asked to revoke drugs made using the China-produced component Valsartan by the Drug Administration of Việt Nam are listed on the stock exchange.

Brazil holds a lot of potential as an export market for Việt Nam’s seafood products now and in the future, according to the Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

The value of two-way trade between Việt Nam and Malaysia in the January-June period this year expanded 21.15 per cent on a yearly basis to more than US$5.84 billion, according to statistics of the Vietnamese trade office in Malaysia.

Up to 57.3 per cent of construction businesses are expected to perform better in the third quarter of 2018, according to the General Statistics Office.

Military Bank (MBBank) has reported consolidated profits of about VNĐ3.8 trillion (US$165.2 million) in the first half of this year, beating its yearly profit of VNĐ3.6 trillion registered in 2017.

Electric Power Trading Company (EPTC), an arm of Electricity of Việt Nam, and India’s Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Co Ltd on Monday signed a power purchase agreement for the solar power project SP Infra 1 Plant in Ninh Thuận Province.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế has issued a decision to end the operation of 12 stagnant projects. Nine have been revoked and three put under special supervision.

The HCM Stock Exchange has announced the latest update to the blue-chip VN30 Index for the next six months from July 23 to January 1, 2019.

Sài Gòn Ground Services JSC (SAGS) will cancel trading of its 24 million shares on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) on July 23, according to the Hà Nội Stock Exchange.

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Taisho has offered to buy more than 9.23 million shares of DHG Pharmaceutical JSC (DHG), 7.06 per cent of DHG’s total shares.