Coach Kiatisuk Senamuang’s HAGL has seven players in the Việt Nam squad competing in the second round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. — Photo courtesy of Hoàng Anh Gia Lai FC HÀ NỘI — Hoàng Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) coach Kiatisuk Senamuang has pledged his full support to the national team, saying that HAGL will release their players whenever needed for national team duty. In the second round of 2022 World Cup qualifiers, HAGL had seven players called up to the national team, namely Lương Xuân Trường, Nguyễn Tuấn Anh, Vũ Văn Thanh, Nguyễn Phong…
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A branch of Agribank. — Photo dantri.com.vn HÀ NỘI — The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) has officially approved credit room extensions for some banks in line with fulfilling the Government’s policy of both managing the fight against the pandemic and continued economic development. Instead of the 10-12 per cent allowed under the most recent current credit growth grants, some banks will be able to issue credit up to 14-15 per cent for the year. Banks that have been allowed to expand credit are mostly pursuing Basel III standards and all have met the requirements…
When issuing corporate bonds, enterprises must comply with the provisions of law, disclose information to investors about their financial situation, production and business plans and financial statements. Photo vov.vn HÀ NỘI — To ensure transparency and reduce risks in the bond market, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has asked corporate bond issuers to consider the feasibility of production and business plans, financial capacity and settlement of interest and principal before issuing bonds. At the end of last year, the Government issued three decrees regulating the offering and trading of corporate bonds to develop the corporate bond market towards openness and transparency to create…
Shoppers at Aeon Long Biên Supermarket in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo Trần Việt HÀ NỘI — Domestic trade is expected to contribute 15-15.5 per cent of the national GDP by 2030 according to a strategy approved by the Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính this week. Under the strategy, Việt Nam expects to set up sustainable supply chains in the country that will ensure the effective implementation of regulations on food safety and quality, origin tracing, and environmental protection. It aims to ensure the fast and stable development of domestic trade, build the Việt Nam-made brand,…
In the past two years, Việt Nam saw an increase in online purchasing of local consumers and businesses. — Photo courtesy of IDEA HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam has the highest number of people shopping on e-commerce platforms in the Southeast Asia region with some 49.3 million people, according to the E-commerce White Book 2021 released by the Việt Nam E-Commerce and Digital Economy Agency (IDEA). According to IDEA, the country’s e-commerce market, in 2020, reached US$11.8 billion. In the past two years, Việt Nam has seen positive changes in online purchasing with both consumers…
A shop selling vegetables that has been set up in HCM City. The city is setting up around 1,000 of those locations to distribute essential goods as supermarkets struggle to cope amid the lockdown. – Photo sggp.org.vn HCM CITY – Around 1,000 outlets will be set up around HCM City to sell groceries since supermarkets are struggling to meet the burgeoning demand amid the COVID-19 shutdown, its Department of Industry and Trade said. Bùi Tá Hoàng Vũ, director of the department, told a meeting held to review a week of implementing Directive 16 that supply of food and foodstuffs…
People flee from police while looting and vandalising the Lotsoho Mall in Katlehong township, east of Johannesburg, on July 12, 2021. — AFP/VNA Photo PRETORIA — The Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa has advised Vietnamese citizens in the country to closely monitor the situation and not to travel to areas that are hotspots of instability. The warning came as South Africa has been coping with rioting and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces and some other localities, following protests over the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma. In late June, Zuma was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to appear…
MESSY: Leicester Square in London is covered in litter ahead of Sunday’s final. AFP Photo Paul Kennedy Now the dust has settled on the European Championships, it’s time to look back on the football played during the delayed month-long tournament. Wait, no. Scratch that. It’s not. It’s actually time to ask why there still remains a number of absolute knuckle draggers following England’s national team. And yes, I know, it’s not all of them. It’s not most. It’s not half. It is just a small fraction of so-called fans who behave like…
A vendor walks in an empty street of Hà Nội after the city started to impose stricter social distancing measures amid a surge in COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. — VNS Photos Vân Nguyễn Vân Nguyễn HÀ NỘI — With the second COVID-19 support package from Government being disbursed for a wide range of recipient groups including informal workers, vendors like Nguyễn Thị Chiến is counting the days for the money to arrive. For her, the relief can’t come soon enough. Chiến, a resident of Nam Định Province who moved to Hà Nội in 2000s, has…
Deputy Minister of Health, Nguyễn Trường Sơn Deputy Minister of Health, Nguyễn Trường Sơn, talks about revised health ministry guidelines on the mandatory quarantine period and details of a pilot home-quarantine scheme for people who come into direct contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases. Is the shortening of hospitalisation time for COVID-19 patients, who will then be allowed to self-quarantine at home, based on scientific evidence and actual conditions? How has the Ministry of Health developed these new guidelines? The number of new COVID-19 cases has increased rapidly in many localities. HCM City alone recorded…