More than 164 billion VND (nearly 6.2 million USD) was pledged to the Ho Chi Minh City Fund for the Poor at the 2026 "City of Compassion – Connecting Love" art exchange programme, held in the city on October 17.
Amid the stagnant stock market environment, bond funds have emerged as an attractive option for investors, especially when profits they have brought significantly surpasses that of bank savings.
The Bali administration has said that funds collected from a tax of 150,000 IDR (10 USD) per person to be levied from all foreign tourists starting next year will be used for waste management and cultural preservation programs.
Southeast Asian startups are enjoying a boom in fundraising exercises by venture and buyout funds that are looking for bigger returns and turning away from regulatory turmoil in Chinese markets, even at the risk of slower growth, reported Reuters news agency.
Over 5.7 trillion VND (about 250 million USD) was raised for social security work in Ho Chi Minh City last year, said Pham Minh Tuan, Vice President of the municipal Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee.
Vietnam’s success in curbing the coronavirus so far, while its Southeast Asia neighbours struggle, is helping the country power ahead in economic growth and attracting major funds, and foreign investors, said foreign experts on the Gulf Today newswire on January 7.
A group of volunteers in the central city of Da Nang have raised funds to make more than 200 automatic, hands-free hand sanitiser dispensers which were given to disease prevention and control teams across the city.
The Yala Provincial Administrative Organisation in the southern border province of Yala has cooperated with various sectors to organise a mural-painting activity to help children and youths with limited educational opportunities.
There’s a Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) atmosphere in the air in Hanoi at the moment with shops crowded with customers and loads of peach blossoms and kumquat trees on the streets.
The Malaysian government will work with authorities in Switzerland, the US, Singapore and other jurisdictions to recover funds that were embezzled from the state treasury, said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
As people in flood-hit provinces struggle to piece together severely disrupted lives, local authorities are calling out for urgent help to deal with major damage suffered by dykes, irrigation works and other construction projects.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) is adjusting for the second time the roadmap to apply the maximum ratio of short-term funds used for medium- and long-term loans.
After one year implementing five groups of solutions set in the Government's Resolution No.35 on supporting and developing enterprises through 2020, many tasks have been completed.
Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities have asked for an additional 48.76 trillion VND (2.14 billion USD) of ODA in the next three years, with 8 trillion VND (352.33 million USD) allocated for this year.
Shares retreated from a five-month high seen in the morning of August 29 as investors increased selling due to caution ahead of portfolio restructuring of large exchange-traded funds.
Da Nang city has asked the Ministry of Transport to allocate funds for key transport infrastructure projects – Lien Chieu Port and the East-West Economic Corridor No 2 (EWEC2).
