Vietnamese monkeys are officially exported to China.

Recently, the General Administration of Customs of China has officially notified the Department of Animal Health to agree with the quarantine certificate form for exporting monkeys from Vietnam to China. Accordingly, businesses can register to export monkeys to this country.

Thus, in addition to dairy products and bird's nests, Vietnam has now officially exported monkeys to the Chinese market. (See details)

Buying 1 tael of gold also requires declaring personal information

Not only commercial banks but also small retail stores are required to declare customer information when buying and selling gold.

Currently on the gold market, not only with SJC gold bars but also when buying plain round rings, Thang Long dragon gold rings, customers are also required to provide their phone number and citizen identification number. Depending on the store, the customer's citizen identification number will be printed on the purchase invoice or saved in the system by the store. (See details)

Examining the huge projects of Asia Slipform Company, businessman Ho Dai Minh

Asia Slipform JSC, with Mr. Ho Dai Minh as legal representative, participates in many very large projects across the country, including a world record project.

According to the Ministry of Public Security's Security Investigation Agency, former Vice Chairman of Phu Tho Province People's Committee Ho Dai Dung was temporarily detained on July 29 for gambling. According to Lao Dong Newspaper, at the time of his arrest, Mr. Dung was an employee of AS Company (See details)

Mr. Le Viet Hai's HBC suddenly responded to the forced delisting.

Hoa Binh Construction Group Corporation (HBC), chaired by Mr. Le Viet Hai, has just sent a reply to the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) affirming that it does not agree with the grounds that HOSE applied to consider mandatory delisting of HBC shares.

The move by Hoa Binh Construction took place in the context of HBC shares being sold off, falling to the floor for 3 sessions and the company suddenly announced that it plans to transfer HBC code to the Upcom trading floor, under the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX). (See details)

SJC General Director explains the temporary suspension of buying one-character gold bars

In recent days, many people holding single-character gold bars (a series with a letter before the number, produced before 1996) are worried because Saigon Jewelry Company (SJC) has temporarily stopped buying.

Speaking to the press on the morning of August 3, Ms. Le Thuy Hang - General Director of Saigon Jewelry Company Limited (SJC) - said: "In recent days, the company has temporarily stopped purchasing dented gold due to objective reasons. Currently, the company has arranged resources to reprocess and will continue to purchase dented SJC gold." (See details)

Ho Chi Minh City establishes working group to ensure gold market security

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a Decision to establish a Working Group to ensure gold market security in the area.

The task of the Working Group is to collect and analyze information, data, and situations about customers buying and selling gold bars; coordinate inspection and examination of compliance with legal regulations on gold trading by establishments buying and selling gold bars and producing and trading gold jewelry; inspect organizations and individuals with signs of suspicion of speculation, profiteering, and causing instability in the gold market in Ho Chi Minh City. (See details)

Vietcombank only sells SJC gold bars to customers with bank accounts.

Vietcombank said that in order to improve service quality, facilitate customer information management and contribute to the development of cashless payments, starting from July 29, Vietcombank has upgraded the online SJC gold bar purchase registration utility.

Accordingly, online registration to buy SJC gold bars is only applicable to individual customers who have an active payment account opened at Vietcombank. (See details)

The US has not recognized Vietnam as a country with a market economy.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has just released information on August 2 that the US Department of Commerce has issued a conclusion on whether Vietnam is a country with a market economy or not. Accordingly, although there have been many positive changes in the Vietnamese economy in recent times, the US still does not recognize Vietnam as a country with a market economy.

This means that Vietnamese enterprises exporting goods to the US market will continue to be discriminated against in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations by the US. The actual production costs of Vietnamese enterprises will continue to be unrecognized and must use the "substitution value" of a third country to calculate the dumping margin. (See details)

Which bank has powerful shareholders with ownership exceeding regulations?

According to Article 63 of the amended Law on Credit Institutions, effective from July 1, 2024, credit institutions must publicly disclose the list of shareholders holding 1% or more of charter capital.

After the Law on Credit Institutions took effect, a number of banks have listed their shareholders owning 1% or more of their charter capital. Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) became the first bank to implement this regulation. (See details)

Vietnamese grapefruit officially granted "visa" to Korea

In just the first 7 months of 2024, fruit and vegetable exports earned 3.8 billion USD and are aiming for 7 billion USD this year. This strength of our country has recently continued to receive good news from the Korean market.

Recently, the Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) announced more good news when Vietnamese grapefruit was officially allowed to be imported into the Korean market. Grapefruit is the third fresh fruit from Vietnam allowed to be imported into Korea, along with dragon fruit and mango. (See details)

Ministry of Industry and Trade investigates anti-dumping of hot-rolled steel from China and India

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has decided to conduct an investigation to apply anti-dumping measures on some hot-rolled steel products originating from India and China.

The investigation will be conducted in accordance with Vietnam's trade defense laws and will take effect from the signing date of July 26, 2024. (See details)