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The Government should let the private sector develop entire airports rather than some of their components, said Lai Xuan Thanh, chairman of the State-run Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV).

In the latest statement on the progress of the Long Thanh International Airport project, ACV saidthat a consulting consortium comprising Japanese, French and Vietnamese firms is carrying out their works in linewith contract terms.

Vietnam’s steel industry is facing 47 anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations from importing countries, accounting for one-third of the total cases of Vietnamese goods, according to a report from the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung received CEO of Marubeni Corporation Masumi Kakinoki in Hanoi on April 16, calling on his firm and other Japanese businesses to increase cooperation with Vietnamese firms.

Samsung Vietnam, in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, launched a training programme in HCM City on April 16 aimed at assisting Vietnamese consultants to improve the production efficiency of local businesses in 2019.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 22,991 VND/USD on the morning of April 17, up by 1 VND from the day earlier.

Vietnamese shares rebounded on Wednesday morning thanks to the strong performances of some individual blue chips.

2018 was the year witnessing the outstanding development of the new payment method via mPOS device. There was 27,500 places accepting payment via mPOS, posting 99 per cent year-on-year increase, according to the Viet Nam Bank Card Association (VNBA).

A proposed new law envisages offering sovereign guarantees to attract private investment in large transport infrastructure projects.