Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Can Tho (VNA) – The
Mekong Delta city of Can Tho
collected over 28.5 trillion VND (1.23 billion USD) to the State budget last
year, heard a conference hosted by the municipal State Treasury on January 6.
Of the figure, over 11.3 trillion VND was domestic revenue, or
102 percent of the estimate assigned by the
Finance Ministry and 94 percent set
by the municipal People’s Council.
Revenue from export-import reached 641 billion VND, or around
120 percent of the estimate, down 6 percent year-on-year.
As of December 31, the State expenditure surpassed 29.9 trillion
VND, more than 11.4 trillion VND was from State budget and the remaining from
A session at the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Many stocks listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock
Exchange (HoSE) continued to enjoy
positive growth in December, the southern
bourse said.
The
benchmark VN-Index on the bourse crossed the 1,000-point threshold, topping
1,103.87 points – the highest level in the year and up 10.05 percent from the
previous month. Meanwhile, VNAllshare, which consists of those in the VN100 and
the VNSmallcap, rose 11.39 percent from late November and 22.09 percent from
early 2020 to 1,032.41 points, and the VN30 was up 10.86 percent to 1,070.77
points.
Several sectors experienced sharp growth such as
The six richest people in Vietnam as of January 6.
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - 2020 was a difficult year for the global economy
including Vietnam, but some
Vietnamese billionaires still saw their net asset
value increase.
According
to
Forbes, besides five familiar faces which were included on its World
Billionaires list in 2019, there is the return of one businessman – Tran Dinh
Long. The recovery of
Vietnam’s stock market at the end of 2020 after tumbling
in March contributed to the positive result.
The
VN-Index ended the last trading day of 2020 at 1,103.87 points, rising nearly
15 percent compared to the beginning of the year.