20-12-2019 12:49
Local regulators are ratcheting up pressure in a bid to curb the risks from spreading financial technology by setting up a foreign ownership limit of 49 per cent.
05-12-2019 10:28
Buoyed by the upcoming increase in foreign ownership limit, international investors will be offered expanded opportunities to explore the lucrative Vietnamese aviation industry. However, concerns have been raised that the amendments will not fully meet the expectations of interested parties, preventing aviation in the country from truly thriving. Bich Thuy reports.
08-11-2019 14:00
Attracting international investment flows into state-owned enterprises by increasing foreign ownership limits will bring equal treatment between domestic and overseas investors. Tran Thi Thanh Huyen, partner at NHQuang&Associates, discusses the bottlenecks in the equitisation process and how important the revision of the relevant laws to international ventures is.
06-02-2019 15:00
“ We have seen and can expect an increase in foreign investment into equitised SOEs due to the continued initiatives to relax foreign ownership limitations, which has been integrated into the government’s desire to divest its ownership in big players in the consumer goods market. ”
23-01-2019 09:00
State-owned commercial banks are calling for further relaxations on their foreign ownership limit this year.
04-10-2018 10:00
After years of takeover fears, more of Vietnam’s leading pharmaceutical firms now ponder a historic change of heart by scrapping foreign ownership limits with a view to the international market, then opening vast distribution business opportunities for new players. Bich Thuy reports.
17-09-2018 07:53
Southern bourse member Pymepharco (ticker PME) is the latest company to announce intentions to ramp up its foreign ownership limit to 100 per cent, following leading pharmaceuticals Duoc Hau Giang and Domesco.
27-08-2018 13:40
Controversy persists among the aviation sector’s major players over setting the foreign holding cap at Vietnamese airlines either at 49 or 30 per cent.
26-07-2018 14:00
Despite the latest proposal on raising the foreign ownership limit in aviation business to 49 per cent, the stake sales of the most influential corporations in the sector still face challenges ahead with conditional requirements.
17-07-2018 12:16
The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has proposed to raise the foreign ownership limit for airlines to 49 per cent, as well as removing the difference in charter capital between international and domestic airlines.
05-07-2018 11:01
Hau Giang Pharmaceutical JSC (DHG) has recently been approved to lift the foreign ownership limit (FOL) to 100 per cent, according to information published on its website.
08-06-2018 12:29
Lifting the foreign ownership limit (FOL) to 100 per cent in Hau Giang Pharmaceutical JSC (DHG) will open the doors for old and new investors to increase holdings in Vietnam’s biggest publicly-traded drug maker.
14-05-2018 10:26
The Prime Minister’s working group has asked the ministries of Finance and Planning and Investment to swiftly lift the foreign ownership limit of 49 per cent at enterprises where foreign investment is not restricted.
03-05-2018 10:46
Three companies have opened up the foreign ownership limit to 100 per cent, the State Securities Commission announced.
14-04-2018 16:14
As Vietnam attracts a new wave of overseas capital, the issue of foreign ownership limits makes a return to the spotlight in 2018, two years after a law paved the way for foreign investors to boost their stakes in listed companies.