Should Metro pay an assignment duty on ownership-transfer deal?

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The HCM City Planning and Investment Department, the governing body that has oversight over wholesale chain Metro Cash & Carry, has said that it has not received any official notice from Metro about its ownership transfer to the Thai BJC Group.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Some real estate developers have decided to invest in agriculture, usually considered a risky and unprofitable business field. This is seen as a positive sign by some, but others see the trend as worrisome.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - With this year’s mid-autumn festival around the corner, the local market for lanterns is gaining momentum and locally-made lanterns with themes of patriotism and Vietnam’s sovereignty over seas and islands have defeated their Chinese rivals. A man carries Vietnamese-made lanterns in the shape of ships and decorated with the words 'Hoang Sa' (Paracel) and 'Truong Sa' (Spratly) in Ho Chi Minh City.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - More Japanese enterprises have come to Ho Chi Minh City this year to sound out business prospects, a local newspaper quoted Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’ Committee Hua Ngoc Thuan as saying.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The Central Highlands city of Da Lat, renowned countrywide for its fresh and clean green produce, would become Asia’s vegetable hub if it establishes a comprehensive cooperation with Japan in producing agricultural products, two Japanese officials said Wednesday.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - German engineering-electronics giant Bosch has announced a plan to channel 160 million euros ($214.7 million) into Vietnam over the next three years.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Vietnam unfortunately sold much of its rice before the global rice market began recovering, with export prices increasing by $10 per ton.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Viet Nam's policy-making bodies may reconsider a proposal to exempt non-alcoholic carbonated drinks from the list of products subject to an excise tax rate of 10 per cent.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had a working with leading officials of the Ministries of Finance, and Industry and Trade on July 15 in Hanoi, asking them to make public on how they fix retail prices of petroleum.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The value of Vietnam exports outpaced the GDP growth rate by threefold in the first six months of the year, jumping up 15% over last year’s same period to US$71 billion.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - A senior official of the northern border province of Lang Son has said that commercial activities through the Vietnam-China border gates are at a normal level.