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These weekly Vietnam news roundups are short and sharp summaries of the latest Vietnam news.
They cover Vietnam’s economy, banking and finance, and regulatory and legal developments, as well as investment announcements, stock market news, updates on the country’s manufacturing sector and so much more.
They come out every Friday. Make sure to subscribe.
Vietnam News Roundup: December 13 to December 19
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, media consolidation in Vietnam, foreign investor activity on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: December 6 to December 13
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, the latest tourist arrivals data, the Consumer Price Index for November, and a bunch of other data released this week…
Vietnam News Roundup: November 29 to December 5
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, nuclear power developments, infrastructure project approvals, e-commerce regulatory hurdles for Temu, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: November 22 to November 28
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, the special consumption tax debate, the new Law on Trade Unions, the latest foreign stock trading activity, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: November 15 to November 21
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, potential changes to Mercedes-Benz business operations in Vietnam, Vietnam’s status on the US currency manipulator watchlist, a gold reserves update, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: November 8 to November 14
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations including the falling dong, new financing arrangements for VinFast, new regulations on data collection and storage for cross border service providers, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: November 1 to November 7
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, a new pilot for a two-tier electricity pricing regime, Vietnam’s purchasing managers’ index for October, the moth-balling of a new petrochemical complex, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: October 25 to October 31
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, e-commerce market data, trade investigations, gold market developments, housing supply data, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: October 18 to October 24
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank open market operations, import-export news, stock market developments including foreign investor trading activity, the most recent IMF GDP growth figures, the new rooftop solar decree, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: October 11 to October 17
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest aviation news, insurance premium revenue, trade remedies investigations, car sales, garment and textile exports, and more.
Vietnam News Roundup: October 4 to October 10
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest growth forecasts; data updates re: tourist arrivals, and imports and exports; the latest breakdown of Vietnam’s key power sources; a corporate bond issuances update; the possibility of a Trump hotel and resort in northern Vietnam, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: September 27 to October 3
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers consumer bank deposits, an update on the Mercedes-Benz plant in HCMC, Vietnam’s latest GDP forecasts, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: September 20 to September 26
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest cosmetic, furniture, and dairy trade data; the State Bank’s latest open market operations; foreign trading on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange; several key large-scale foreign direct investment projects; an update on the Skoda assembly plant in Quang Ninh; and more.
Vietnam News Roundup: September 13 to September 19
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers the latest State Bank foreign currency purchases, the lifting of pre-fund requirements for foreign institutional investors, the latest car sales figures, an update on Vietnam’s pursuit of nuclear power, beer production data, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: September 6 to September 12
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers trade remedies against Vietnamese steel tubes, import and export data for August, corporate bond issuances last month, as well as an update on registered FDI in Vietnam this year, and a planned beer company takeover, and more!
Vietnam News Roundup: August 30 to September 5
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers foreign trader stock market activity, a cut to production for Japanese solar panels made in Vietnam, a ‘stunning victory’ over a pirate film site in Hanoi, a widening gap in deposits taken and loans issued at Vietnam banks, a new coal-fired power plant set to start a trial run next month, and more…
Vietnam News Roundup: August 23 to August 29
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers foreign trader stock market activity, Vietnam’s plane shortage, the World Bank’s latest GDP forecast, the latest Mercedes-Benz factory licensing challenge update, VinPearl’s latest bond issuance in Singapore, and more…
Vietnam Stock Reviews: Gelex Group
In the first half of 2024, revenue and pre-tax profit experienced an increase of 3.8 percent and 74.4 percent compared to the previous year, respectively. The significant increase in pre-tax profit was partially attributed to the sale of majority stakes in three Gelex Group subsidiaries to Singapore’s Sembcorp. Of note, in August 2024, 300 million shares in Gelex Electric, a subsidiary of Gelex Group, were officially listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange under the ticker GEE.
Vietnam News Roundup: August 16 to August 22
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers foreign trader stock market activity, car registration fee cuts, the latest manufacturing announcements, a number of new antidumping investigations, the latest iPOS food and beverage report, and a whole lot more.
Vietnam News Roundup: August 9 to August 15
This week’s Vietnam news roundup covers foreign trader stock market activity, bond issuances, new manufacturing projects, a raid on a fake laundry detergent operation, imports and export data, car sales data, and more…
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