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Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh on September 9 chaired a meeting with ministries and agencies to discuss the implementation of the automatic toll collection systems on highways.

Vietnam plans to hasten the reform of customs checks to save time and costs for businesses and facilitate trade.

To stabilise investor sentiment after the Lunar New Year holiday, the Ministry of Finance has directed the State Securities Commission to closely monitor the market and crack down on the use of negative information about the coronavirus epidemic to manipulate stock prices.

The equitisation of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) is still slow, failing to reach the rate of progress as directed by the Prime Minister, Deputy Minister of Finance Vu Thi Mai said at the Government’s regular press briefing in Hanoi on May 4.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and a Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi on June 15 noon for the ACMECS 8 and the CLMV 9 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Several issues of public interests were under focus at the Government’s regular press briefing in Hanoi on March 1.

The Government recently issued a resolution to ratify an agreement and a protocol on avoiding double taxation and preventing income tax evasion between Vietnam and the United States of America.

Multiple solutions could increase State budget collection to make up for the central budget deficit of over 31 trillion VND (1.39 billion USD), said Deputy Minister of Finance Vu Thi Mai.

A finance ministry official has refuted the figure of public debt in 2014 as given by the Policy and Development Institute, saying that the method of calculation is not in line with regulations.

Vietnam and the US have signed four cooperation documents in finance, civil aviation, tariffs and United Nations peacekeeping on the occasion of Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official visit to the US.