An individual must pay tax of 10 per cent when gaining a turnover of more than VNĐ100 million per year from renting a house or an apartment. — Photo vneconomy.vn HÀ NỘI — The General Department of Taxation under the Ministry of Finance is studying a proposal on increasing the threshold of taxable revenue for individual landlords renting out houses. This is a part of the programme on amending the Value-added Tax (VAT) Law that the General Department is consulting with experts, said Tạ Thị Phương Lan, deputy head of the Tax Administration Department of Small, Medium Enterprises, Business Households…
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Only some passengers check in at Nội Bài International Airport due to the COVID-19 pandemic. —Photo vietnamplus.vn HÀ NỘI — Bus companies, railway and airline firms have been struggling to survive amid the impacts of COVID-19 for a year and a half. Although they have reduced their workforces and slashed operating costs, firms still face bankruptcy. Khúc Hữu Thanh Hải, director of Đất Cảng Transport, Trading and Service Joint Stock Company, said his company had temporarily suspended about 80 per cent of their vehicles from operation. Among the vehicles still in operation, the highest number of passengers per vehicle only reached about…
Yên Sở Park in Hoàng Mai District has become popular for camping in recent years. Photo ktdtt.vn HÀ NỘI – In recent years, Hà Nội authorities have focused on forming many new residential areas and expanding transport infrastructure to meet the rapid speed of urbanisation and population growth. However, green and public spaces have lacked adequate investment, according to Kinh Tế & Đô Thị (Economy & City) newspaper. The city is entering the peak of the stifling summer when people most want fresh air in public spaces and parks but unfortunately, the city has asked people not to gather in public areas…
Processing wood at Minh Thành Company in Đồng Nai Province. Many companies want their workers vaccinated against Covid-19 on a priority basis, and said they are willing to pay for the vaccine. Photo courtesy of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association. HÀ NỘI — Manufacturing workers should be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible as they are vulnerable to infection, according to business groups. Lê Dương Quang, chairman of the Vietnam Association for Supporting Industries (VASI), said businesses in the supporting industry were willing to pay the cost for employees so they could be inoculated quickly and effectively. “The biggest…
At the India-Việt Nam Business Meet in the medical devices sector held online last Thursday. — Photo courtesy of the Consulate General of India in HCM City HCM CITY — Việt Nam could become a major export market for Indian medical device makers and also act as a springboard to other ASEAN countries, according to the Engineering Export Promotion Council of India. Việt Nam imported around 90 per cent of its medical devices, with Japan, Germany, the US, China, and Singapore accounting for around 55 per cent, its chairman, Mahesh Desai, told an online India-Việt Nam Business Meet on…
Bùi Hạnh Nguyên is pictured with her handmade toys made from hemp fabric. –Photo nguoiduatin.vn A studio located in a small lane on Thụy Khuê Street, Hà Nội, is making eco-friendly toys from environmentally-friendly material – hemp. Prior to the establishment of Touched Studio, Bùi Hạnh Nguyên spent three years travelling through many mountainous provinces in northern Việt Nam to seek a green material that could help change people’s consumption habits, contribute to environmental protection and improve livelihoods of ethnic minority women. After graduating from the Foreign Trade University in 2010, Nguyên worked as a designer…
WELCOMING SIGHT: The nuanced colourful lanterns adorn two storeys of the Red Dzao on the town’s signature Thác Bạc Street. VNS Photos Mỹ Hà by Nguyễn Mỹ Hà No matter how often the media, reporters and travel bloggers cry out loud that Sa Pa is no longer the sleepy town in the clouds with beautiful ethnic Red Dao and Mông people walking on the streets, Vietnamese and international tourists keep going there. Everyone says bad planning and chaotic construction make Sa Pa a disaster of architecture, yet people still come flooding in. Sa Pa has…
HCDC asks people to strictly follow the Ministry of Health’s 5K message to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Photo courtesy of HCDC HCM CITY — People coming to HCM City from COVID-19 pandemic-hit areas in Điện Biên, Bắc Ninh and Hà Nam provinces will be quarantined for 21 days. The HCM City Centre for Disease Control (HCDC) has just announced that people coming from Quế Võ District in Bắc Ninh from May 12, and Công Lý Commune in Hà Nam Province from May 13 will be quarantined in public facilities. Those coming from Điện Biên will be quarantined at home. The HCDC said…
A view of martyr’s square in the capital Tripoli, Libya in January, 2020. AFP/VNA Photo NEW YORK – Việt Nam affirmed support for a comprehensive political resolution led and owned by Libyans and called for promoting the political process in the North African country during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the situation in Libya and the operations of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday. Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, head of the Việt Nam’s Permanent Mission to the UN, spoke highly of important progresses in Libya over the past time, and highlighted…