Việt Nam News

 Argentina’s Ministry of Production has issued a decree to apply an anti-dumping duty of 31.15 per cent on ceramic tiles imported from Việt Nam.

Large-cap property developer Novaland (HOSE: NVL) will finalise on March 28 the list of shareholders to whom the company will issue bonus shares on a 100:31 ratio.

On March 7 the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued Decision No.686/QD-BCT with safeguards against the import of diammonium phosphate and monoammonium phosphate fertilisers.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has targeted to earn US$2 billion from catfish exports this year, accounting for 31.5 per cent of the fishery industry’s total export value.

After a successful trading week with five consecutive rallying sessions, Việt Nam’s benchmark VN-Index finally hit the short-term peak of 1,130 points and is expected to maintain its upward trend and open next week’s session with a positive status, analysts said.

Many Singaporean firms are interested in investing in food, agriculture, and dining services in Việt Nam as they forecast that these sectors will thrive in the near future amidst broader ASEAN integration.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has asked the government to handle the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that failed to disclose their business information in 2017.

Cần Thơ City has called on companies to strengthen co-operation with farmers for exporting fruits, especially the city’s three key fruits of longan, star apple and mango.

The Mekong Delta province of Vĩnh Long plans to develop nine industrial clusters with a total area of 492.5 ha from now to 2020, and another five industrial clusters with a combined area of 165.49 ha during 2020-30.

The Vietnamese Government pledges to maintain the stable macro environment, continue improving the institutional quality and state government, and boosting the rule of law, for foreign businesses, especially those from Australia, to land investment and expand operation in Việt Nam, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc expressed his delights over the increasing role the Vietnamese Business Association in Australia (VBAA) in the host nation as well as its significant contributions to promoting bilateral economic ties 

Green-skin pomelo and green Xiêm coconut, specialties of the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre, have been granted geographical indication (GI) certificate by the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP).

Central and local television stations must stop analogue broadcasting before December 31, 2018, under an amendment to Decision No 2451/QD-TTg on transmission, terrestrial TV broadcasting digitalisation by 2020.

The State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) has asked for the Prime Minister’s approval of Vinamilk’s plan for an Employee Stock Ownership Programme (ESOP) in the 2018-21 period.

Experts have recommended amending e-commerce regulations that would allow authorities to better manage and collect tax as well as develop the sector.

Deputy director of Kon Tum Department of Planning and Investment Nguyễn Đình Bắc told baodautu.vn that his province would advertise its potential to domestic and foreign investors while encouraging them to pump investments in a wide range of sectors, including hi-tech farming, urban infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical and tourism sectors.

Vietnamese businesses should actively seek information and grasp the development and investment strategies of banks to win bids for projects financed by the World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB), said representatives of the two banks on Thursday.

Việt Nam’s securities market has a 25 per cent chance of being upgraded to the “emerging market” status from its current “frontier market” level by 2021, according to Võ Trí Thành, senior economist at the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM).