Corporate

Scene of an accident. Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Corporate role and social responsibility in the fight against alcoholic beverages was the theme of a seminar held in Hanoi on June 21. The seminar was co-organised by the Asia-Pacific International Wine & Spirits Alliance (APIWSA), the Pernod Ricard company, and the National Committee for Traffic Safety. Since 2012, the APIWSA, businesses and organisations have launched a number of programmes against the damaging impacts of alcoholic beverage abuse such as “Traffic safety for youths”, “Responsible drinking and traffic safety”, and the model “Women raise voice about responsible drinking” in Can Tho and Ninh Binh with more than 200 people taking part. They helped more than 1,100 traffic police deal with violations regarding alcohol limit excess while more than 900 key communications staff, 1 million students and 2 million people were trained on responsible drinking … [Read more...] about Seminar discusses corporate responsibility in fight against alcohol

VinFast and PV Oil sign the memorandum of understanding on cooperation in Hanoi on October 25 (Photo: VinFast) Hanoi (VNA) – VinFast, a subsidiary of the multi-sector conglomerate Vingroup, and the PetroVietnam Oil Corporation (PV Oil) on October 25 signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation to implement a system of stations for charging electric vehicles and leasing batteries. Under this deal, VinFast will initially install charging equipment at 600 gas stations of PV Oil nationwide. The number of such stations will be increased to 20,000 by 2020. At PV Oil stations, VinFast will flexibly provide services to meet customers’ demand, including quick charging, overnight charging, and leasing batteries. PV Oil is one of the leading petrol retailers in Vietnam with its outlets present in all 63 provinces and cities. The partnership with PV Oil is said to be an important step towards debuting VinFast’s electric motorbikes in late 2018 and electric cars in the … [Read more...] about VinFast, PV Oil partner to implement e-vehicle charging stations

Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Finance has added environmentally-friendly cars to the list of vehicles with spareparts entitled to special preferential import tariffs under the draft decree amending and supplementing Decree No.125/2017/ND-CP on import tariff and preferential import tax table, list of goods and absolute tax, mixed tax and import tax outside the quota. Preferential import tax programme for auto parts is currently applied for gas-using vehicles (Photo: VNA) Decree No.125/2017/ND-CP, which took effect on January 1, 2018, has contributed greatly to developing the supporting industry for the automobile and many other engineering sectors, while helping increase revenue to the State budget. The tax cut was included in the Government’s revised decree on the schedule for preferential import tariffs, flat taxes, compound tariffs and out-of-quota import tariffs. The ministry said Vietnam’s part suppliers are mainly small- and … [Read more...] about Electric automobiles’ spare parts to enjoy preferential import taxes