The Government’s plans to increase capital for large State-owned commercial banks in the first quarter of this year could be delayed due to the Covid-19 outbreak, analysts predicted.

The reliance of private enterprises, business households and individuals on bank credit has brought both positive and negative effects.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dust concentration in the air, both in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City, was several times higher in 2016 than the levels recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), endangering resident’s health.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Capital from the private sector is expected to further increase in the coming years thanks to Public – Private Partnerships (PPP), according to independent market observers.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on June 26 issued an order on the groundbreaking ceremony of package CP1A – a major infrastructure work under the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park Development Project.

Decree brings change to securities market, Telephone exports hit $5.45b by mid-March, Israel to invest in Kien Giang, Vietnam exports nearly 537,000 tonnes of rice, Capital, tax crunch restricts rice, seafood export

VietNamNet Bridge – Teachers are not forcing failing students to repeat classes, because if they do, they will not fulfill the tasks of the education-universalization program.

Analysts believe that the Malaysian retailer Parkson has had to shut down one of its shopping malls in Hanoi because it has been taking a loss over the last few years. But other sources say the reason is a “three-party civil dispute”.

Cash flow from the Philippines is gradually encroaching on the Vietnamese market, but its presence is not well known.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As few investors are buying corporate bonds, businesses are desperately seeking capital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The national economy remains weak with more and more businesses dissolving and capital flow stagnating because banks cannot find borrowers.

 Lai Xuan Thanh, head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), said that the Long Thanh Airport project in the south could proceed even without Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Daily securities trading volumes have been soaring since the beginning of the year, a phenomenon completely unexpected by observers and investors.

 PM: Restructuring of SOEs key political task; Over 400 SOEs to be equitised by 2015; Vietnamese abroad encouraged to remit money home; HCM City IPs eye US$550 million in investment; Vietnam among top world’s gold consumers

VietNamNet Bridge – Observers have noted that there is a new wave of the foreign investment in the Vietnamese water market.

 Vietnam to join TPP negotiations in Singapore; Lotte Mart inaugurated in Binh Thuan province; Vietnam determined to pursue multilateral trade mechanism; Donor assistance to Vietnam unchanged in 2014

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 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of foreign funds have withdrawn their capital from private equity firms (PE), which is attributed to the fewer good investment opportunities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of the “big guys” in the seafood industry are planning to sell stakes to foreign investors, which is considered a good way to seek capital.