Investors watch stock prices on an electric board. — Photo vietnamfinance.vn The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange has announced the top 10 largest securities companies this year. VPS Securities Joint Stock Company remained in top spot with a 17.59 per cent market share in the first half of the year though its second quarter share dipped marginally. SSI Securities Corporation continued to be in second position, but increased its market share from 9.66 per cent in Q1 to 10.02 per cent in Q2 to end the half with 9.81 per cent. VNDirect Securities Corporation remained in third place with 7.99 per cent during the year. In the top 10 Ho Chi Minh Securities climbed past Techcom Securities JSC to fourth position in Q2, with their half-year market shares being 5.58 per cent and 5.47 per cent, respectively. Mirae Asset, Viet Capital Securities JSC, MB Securities, KIS Vietnam Securities, and FPT Securities rounded off the top 10. In the year-to-date, especially since April, the … [Read more...] about HOSE announces list of top 10 securities companies
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Over 1.6 billion shares could enter market in July
Steel wire rod products stored in a warehouse of Hoa Phat Group. — Photo hoaphat.com.vn Stock dividend is a common form on the stock exchanges and after each payment, a large amount of shares are pumped into the market. In July, it is estimated that the market may receive more than 1.6 billion shares. Notably, 1.34 billion shares of Hoa Phat Group (HoSE: HPG) will be issued to shareholders on July 20. The issuance is to pay 2021’s dividends at the rate of 30 per cent. Once it is completed, the total circulation of HPG Shares will increase to 5.8 billion units, the largest on the stock exchange. Previously, on June 20, the steel producer closed the final registration for a list of shareholders receiving cash dividends at the rate of 5 per cent and stock dividends at the rate of 30 per cent. For cash dividends, more than VND2.2 trillion (US$95.6 million) will be transferred to investors' accounts on July 6. Another steel producer - Ton Nam Kim (HoSE: NKG) is also preparing … [Read more...] about Over 1.6 billion shares could enter market in July
Goodbye Shanghai: After 16 years, Covid curbs send American family packing
Heather and husband George arrived in Shanghai from New York in 2006 for a one-year adventure, but 16 years later their two-bedroom apartment in Shanghai’s historic former French Concession is the only home their children have ever known. So while repatriating to the United States is technically a homecoming for Heather and George, leaving Shanghai means leaving home for daughters Charlotte, 14, and Matilda, 12. Heather spent the month of June readying for a return to the United States. Her husband left weeks earlier with their family dog to help prepare for their new life in Washington D.C. "I haven't had the luxury to really grieve a lot of what I'm leaving behind because I need to get two kids and a cat out of here ... so it's been really focused on that logistics," she told Reuters from her flat which had just been emptied out by movers. The Kaye family are part of an exodus of both foreigners and locals from Shanghai as China's most cosmopolitan city tries to find its … [Read more...] about Goodbye Shanghai: After 16 years, Covid curbs send American family packing
Training course on human trafficking prevention held in Lang Son
The course is jointly held by the Drug and Crime Prevention Department of the Vietnam Border Guard Command, the International Organization for Migration in Vietnam, and the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs under the U.S. Department of State. The course is for 30 officers and staff of the Special Task Force, and the Division of Drug and Crime Prevention under the Lang Son provincial Border Guard Command. During the three-day course, participants will be equipped with major contents, including key issues in human trafficking prevention and combat, international and Vietnamese laws on human trafficking and illegal immigration, investigation skills and professional measures to deal with human trafficking cases, international cooperation in prevention and combat of human trafficking, to name but a few. The training course is seen as an occasion for border guard officers and employees to exchange information and share experience in human trafficking … [Read more...] about Training course on human trafficking prevention held in Lang Son