flc postpones dividend payment due to hsx shutdown

FLC postpones dividend payment due to HSX shutdown

On January 25, FLC Group JSC (HSX: FLC) announced postponing the final dividend payment for the year 2016 which would have been issued as cash payments or as stocks due to the recent technical halt on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange.
mai linh tax request a bad precedent

Mai Linh tax request a bad precedent?

The Vietnam Social Security refuses to deal with Mai Linh’s request to be exempted from interest and late payment fees as well as to extend the deadline for its original social insurance payment as such a request is not within the company’s legal rights.
matchmove targets vietnams 20 million uncarded smart phone users

MatchMove targets Vietnam’s 20 million uncarded smart phone users

MatchMove, Asia’s leading disruptive mobile/digital payments company, announced that it will be focusing its efforts to digitise payments across sectors like gaming, tourism, digital disbursement, retail, and e-commerce in Vietnam.
grab announces acquisition of bangalore payments startup ikaaz

Grab announces acquisition of Bangalore payments startup iKaaz

Grab, the leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia, today announced the acquisition of Bangalore-based payments startup iKaaz.
mai linh group requests lifeline from authorities

Mai Linh Group requests lifeline from authorities

The traditional taxi operator requests exemption from interest and late payment fees in order to maintain and develop, as well as create jobs for 24,000 employees.
apple says will pay us 38b in taxes on repatriated profits

Apple says will pay US$38b in taxes on repatriated profits

Apple announced on Wednesday (Jan 17) it would pay some US$38 billion in taxes - likely the largest payment of its kind - on profits repatriated from overseas as it boosts investments in the United States.
shinhan bank ceo forecasts rise of retail banking

Shinhan Bank CEO forecasts rise of retail banking

Shinhan Bank Vietnam (Shinhan Bank) - one of the leading banks of South Korea, has officially took over the retail banking segment of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group in Vietnam (ANZ Vietnam) to expand its payment services by utilising ANZ’s resources. Shin Dong Min, CEO of Shinhan Bank, addressed the acquisition of ANZ, the possible impacts of the transfer on ANZ’s existing customers, and personal opinion on the Vietnamese banking industry in 2017 and the time to come.
mobile pay the great potential and pitfalls

Mobile pay: the great potential, and pitfalls

Mobile payments – and QR code payments in particular – are beginning to take hold in Vietnam, but a lack of common payment standards poses many challenges for mobile payment providers.
pvc misused trillion dong advance payment

PVC misused trillion-dong advance payment

Almost all of the $6.6 million and VND1.3 trillion ($59 million) that PetroVietnam paid to PVC as advance payment to implement the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the $1.7-billion Thai Binh 2 thermal power plant was used to pay for PVC’s loans in banks.
pv gas hit with 5 million in tax arrears

PV Gas hit with $5 million in tax arrears

PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation (PV Gas) will have to pay VND106 billion ($4.67 million) in tax arrears, including missed tax payments and the resulting fine.
thaibev to receive 53 million from sabeco dividends

ThaiBev to receive $53 million from Sabeco dividends

Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabakdi, the owner of ThaiBev, will receive VND1.2 trillion ($52.84 million) from the dividend payment of Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (Sabeco), only a short while after his company completed the purchase of nearly 54 per cent stake in Sabeco.
germany lays charges in ryanair pilots tax fraud probe

Germany lays charges in Ryanair pilots 'tax fraud' probe

BERLIN: German prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged five employees of a British recruitment agency working with Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair over millions of euros in allegedly unpaid social security payments for its pilots.
ha noi to inspect enterprises owing social insurance payments

Hà Nội to inspect enterprises owing social insurance payments

Hà Nội’s authorities have ordered the city’s inspectors to inspect enterprises with long overdue social insurance premiums. 
thaibev submits official report on sabeco acquisition

ThaiBev submits official report on Sabeco acquisition

In a report to the Singapore Exchange, Thailand Beverage (ThaiBev) mentioned the acquisition deal of Sabeco and said Vietnam Beverage is expected to complete the payment to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade on December 28, 2017.
mobile banking voted as favourite payment method at citi

Mobile banking voted as favourite payment method at Citi

Mobile banking surpassed other digital payment channels to become the most preferred payment platform installed and used by clients of Citi, a US-based investment banking firm, across the Asia-Pacific and especially in Vietnam.