The local stock market has come under downward pressure since the high-profile FLC Group chairman, Trinh Van Quyet, was detained on Tuesday on alleged charges of stock market manipulation.

According to the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and Hanoi Chairman Chu Ngoc Anh, who formerly served as Minister of Science and Technology, must take responsibility for their alleged involvement in Viet A Technology Corporation’s price gouging of Covid-19 test kits.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) will closely monitor Bamboo Airways, whose chairman Trinh Van Quyet has been detained on alleged charges of stock market manipulation, for three to six months.

A 38-kilometer light rail route will be built to connect Thu Thiem new urban area of HCMC with the under-construction Long Thanh International Airport in neighboring Dong Nai Province, with a total estimated cost of VND40.5 trillion (US$1.77 billion).

Ministry of Public Security investigators have just detained the high-profile FLC Group chairman, Trinh Van Quyet, on alleged charges of stock market manipulation.

The estimated cost of the Tan Van-Nhon Trach section of the Ring Road No. 3 project, which will connect HCMC, Binh Duong, Dong Nai and Long An, has risen by over VND1.6 trillion after six years of delays.

Over 320,000 international passengers flew to Vietnam in the first quarter of the year, soaring 176% year-on-year, according to a recent report sent by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam to the Ministry of Transport.

Vietnam has achieved the mutual recognition of Covid vaccine passports with 17 countries, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

HCMC will officially begin collecting fees from users of infrastructure facilities and public services at seaport terminals in the city from April 1 after delaying the fee collection twice, said Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, director of the HCMC Inland Waterway Port Authority.

The National Assembly’s Standing Committee has passed a resolution to raise the cap on overtime from 40 to 60 hours per month and from 200 to 300 hours per year.