Some 3,000 businesses will take part in Online Friday 2016, the year’s largest e-commerce event, to be held on December 2, the first Friday of the month.

Viet Nam’s sovereign fund State Capital Investment Corporation will auction a 9 per cent stake comprising 130.63 million shares in the Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk) at the HCM Stock Exchange on December 2.

Viet Nam’s import-export turnover by November 15 was on the threshold of US$300 billion, up $100 billion against 2011, the latest preliminary statistics from the General Department of Customs showed.

 Building more golf courses to develop tourism is believed to be one of the ways for poor provinces to develop local economies.

Progressive taxation is expected help reduce speculation in housing, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF).

Vietnam has maintained economic growth despite the reduction in mining natural resources, but it must begin to reduce exploitation as resources are running out, experts say.