TACLOBAN CITY: The Catbalogan city government in Samar is a recipient of 18 sub-projects funded under the Local Government Support Fund – Support to the Barangay Development Program (LGSF-SBDP) to sustain peace in communities previously influenced by …
Year: 2023
Fire hits Cebu restaurant, residential area on New Year’s Eve
CEBU CITY: A fire hit a restaurant inside a department store in Talisay City on Sunday morning, leaving over PHP8 million worth of damage.
The fire broke out at 9:55 a.m. and was immediately raised to a second alarm 10 minutes later, Talisay City Fir…
Protect your hearing, pets against New Year’s Eve noise
MANILA: Maricar Estor, 20, has been wearing earmuffs every New Year’s Eve for almost 17 years now as loud sounds due to the revelry cause her palpitation and pain in her ears.
‘I remember when I was younger, I cry when I hear firecrackers blasting an…
Vietnamese comic artist wins silver at int’l manga awards
HCM City: Nachi Nguyen, a Vietnamese manga (Japanese comic) lover and comic artist, has won the silver prize at the Japan International Manga Awards with her work ‘Dieu nhay cua vu tru’ (The Dancing Universe).
Nachi’s work stood out from 587 other ar…
Stock market development strategy approved
Hanoi: Vietnam’s stock market is set to grow in a stable, safe, healthy, effective and sustainable fashion under a freshly-approved strategy.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai on December 29 signed Decision No. 1726/QD-TTg approving the stock market…
VAT to be reduced by 2% from January 1
Hanoi: The value-added tax (VAT) for most of goods and services will be cut by 2% from January 1, 2024.
The government has issued Decree No. 94/2023/ND-CP regulating VAT reduction policy in line with the National Assembly’s Resolution No. 110/2023/QH…
Central bank urges caution in gold trading
Hanoi: The central bank has warned people to take caution when trading gold amid the strong fluctuations of the precious metal.
Dao Xuan Tuan, Director of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s Department of Foreign Exchange Management, noted that the ban…
Banks repurchase significant amount of bonds before maturity
Hanoi: Commercial banks have spent trillions of Vietnam dong to buy back bonds before maturity in the last months of this year.
Specifically, the Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB) recently bought back all 500 billion VND (20.6 million USD) of …
Quota for raw tobacco imports set at nearly 72,000 tonnes
Hanoi: Vietnam would import 71,835 tonnes of raw tobacco under tariff quota for 2024 set in a freshly issued circular by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
Raw material import tariff quotas are assigned by the method specified in the Governme…