VOV.VN - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) on April 21 signed an amendment to their bilateral partnership agreement to expand USAID’s support for Vietnam in promoting local capacity development.

Ministry of Public Security investigators have arrested four more business executives on alleged charges of stock market manipulation.

VOV.VN - The Criminal Investigation Agency under the Ministry of National Defence has launched criminal proceedings against and arrested five generals and two other senior officers of the Vietnam Coast Guard on charges of embezzlement.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed a decision approving the public debt strategy until 2030, which sets a target of keeping it at under 60% of the GDP and Government debts not exceeding 50% of the GDP by 2030.

Foreign investment poured into real estate hit almost US$2.7 billion in the first quarter of this year, outpacing the figure of the entire 2021, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The total amount of social investment capital disbursed in the first quarter of 2021 was estimated at VND562.2 trillion (US$24.6 billion), up 8.9% year-on-year, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The Political Bureau, the supreme policy-making body of the Communist Party of Vietnam, has agreed to issue a resolution regarding the directions and tasks of developing the Hanoi capital by 2030, with a vision towards 2045.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s investments abroad, including newly and additionally-registered capital during the first quarter of the year, reached US$211.45 million, or 37% of the figure recorded the same period in 2021.

VOV.VN - The first quarter of the year saw 35,700 enterprises forced to temporarily suspend operations, a rise of 49.7% on-year, with 17,100 businesses withdrawing from the market every month on average, according to the National Business Registration Information System.

Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, on March 28 announced the expansion of the She’s Next Grant Programme in Vietnam to support women entrepreneurs in capital mobilisation, business governance and development.