New VinaCapital fund to focus on Vietnam’s unlisted firms

  The leading fund manager aims to boost foreign investment in the UpCom market. VinaCapital Group, the country’s largest fund manager, plans to establish a new fund next month focusing on unlisted companies with a market capitalization of under $50 million. The VinaCapital Special Access Fund (VSAF) will help foreign players diversify their investment portfolios […]

Fruit and veg outgrow rice to become Vietnam’s third largest foreign-currency earner

  Already a major coffee and rice exporter, Vietnam is now turning its attention to fruit and vegetables. Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable exports have jumped to $1.68 billion so far this year, up 28 percent from the same period last year, customs statistics show. Fruit and vegetables have become Vietnam’s third largest hard-currency earner after […]

HCMC’s credit growth hits 4-year high in Jan-Sep

  Low interest rates boosted lending to $63 billion in the first nine months. Loans offered by banks in Ho Chi Minh City totaled VND1,400 trillion ($63 billion) in the first nine months, up 13.26 percent from the end of last year, central bank data showed. That was the highest credit growth rate for a […]

Quy định mới về mức thu lệ phí môn bài

Ngày 04/10/2016, Chính phủ ban hành Nghị định 139/2016/NĐ-CP quy định về lệ phí môn bài. Theo đó, mức thu lệ phí môn bài được quy định mới như sau: Đối với tổ chức hoạt động sản xuất, kinh doanh hàng hóa, dịch vụ: 3.000.000 đồng/năm đối với tổ chức có vốn điều lệ hoặc […]