Morning news 17-10: USD bank prices 'storm' again; New scam appears online

Tin tức sáng 17-10: Giá USD tại ngân hàng lại 'dậy sóng' - Ảnh 1. — Banks simultaneously adjust USD listed prices - Illustration photo: AFP

USD price at banks "storms" again

The State Bank announced the central exchange rate of the Vietnamese Dong to the USD, applicable for October 16, is 24,187 VND, an increase of 10 VND compared to the previous session.

Banks also simultaneously adjusted their listed USD prices. Accordingly, Vietcombank bought at VND24,780/USD and sold at VND25,170/USD, up VND55 and VND45 respectively compared to the previous session.

At Eximbank, this bank sells each USD at 25,140 VND, and buys at 24,780 VND, up 15 VND compared to the previous session. Following the same trend, the exchange rate on the free market also increased by about 10 VND, to 25,260 - 25,360 VND (buy - sell).

The selling price exceeding the 25,000 VND mark is surprising, because the USD price has been quite "calm" since September. After the Fed's first interest rate cut in many years, the USD index plummeted, helping to cool down the domestic exchange rate.

The reason for the fluctuation in the domestic exchange rate is believed to be due to the increasing influence of the USD on the international market. In the session of October 16, the USD increased by 0.1%, approaching the level of 104 points.

This morning opened the 10th National Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

Tin tức sáng 17-10: Giá USD tại ngân hàng lại 'dậy sóng' - Ảnh 2. — The 10th National Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, term 2024-2029, took place from October 16 to 18 - Photo: QUANG VINH

According to the program, this morning, October 17, the opening ceremony of the 10th National Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, term 2024-2029, officially took place.

The congress took place on October 16, 17 and 18, with nearly 1,400 delegates, including 1,052 official delegates. The youngest delegate was 20 years old, the oldest was 95 years old.

At the working session on the afternoon of October 16, the congress conducted consultations to elect a 55-member Congress Presidium. Of these, 51 members were consulted and 4 Party and State leaders were invited to join the Presidium, including General Secretary and President To Lam; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man; and Standing member of the Secretariat Luong Cuong.

As planned, on the afternoon of October 17, the congress will approve the personnel plan and consult on electing members of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front for the 10th term, 2024-2029.

Bondholders demand Novaland to add collateral as stocks fall dramatically

Novaland Real Estate Investment Group Joint Stock Company (NVL) has just announced a resolution on adding collateral for bonds.

According to the resolution, bondholders of the NVLH2123010 bond lot rejected Novaland's proposal to not mortgage additional collateral assets due to the continued decline in the value of NVL shares. This affects the value of the bond's collateral assets.

Therefore, bondholders requested Novaland to complete the mortgage contract signing procedure and register the secured transaction as soon as the conditions are met.

Additional collateral includes 47 certificates of land use rights, house ownership rights and assets attached to land in Cu Lao Phuoc Hung urban area. It is known that this bond lot was issued from 2021, worth 1,000 billion VND.

A plastics industry "giant" is about to be "kicked out" of the stock exchange.

Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE) has just announced the decision to delist DAG shares of Dong A Plastics Group Joint Stock Company.

The reason DAG was delisted is because Dong A Plastics Group seriously violated its information disclosure obligations, which is a case of mandatory delisting according to regulations.

The number of DAG shares delisted is more than 60.31 million shares with a par value of VND 603.1 billion. The delisting date of these shares is effective from October 22, 2024.

The last trading day of DAG shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange is August 14, 2024 because trading has been suspended since August 15, 2024.

Warning of new scam: invite to watch movies online, scam billions

On October 16, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Hanoi City Police, said that recently there has been a fraudulent method of appropriating property through the method of inviting people to watch movies online and voting for a fee.

One of the recent victims is Mr. H., residing in Binh Phuoc province. According to Mr. H., he was invited to be friends via social media by someone and he accepted. After that, this person texted him to download the Telegram social media application to watch movies online and vote for a fee.

Via Telegram, the account "@Buithihuong02" sent Mr. H. a link, asking him to log in and perform the task "vote 1", after which he received 170,000 VND transferred to his personal account.

In "vote 2", Mr. H. was asked to transfer 1 million VND to continue the task. After completing, Mr. H. received 1 million VND. In "vote 3", Mr. H. deposited 5 million VND and completed the requirements given by the subject.

At this time, the system informed Mr. H. that he had entered incorrect data and that if he wanted to withdraw money, he had to deposit 36 million VND to offset the data. Mr. H. deposited money as instructed, but the system failed again. To fix it, there was no other way but to… continue transferring money. When he lost more than 1 billion VND, Mr. H. realized he had been scammed.

Hanoi City Police advise people to be vigilant. When suspecting fraud, they should immediately notify the police to promptly prevent and receive guidance on how to handle the situation.

Ho Chi Minh City recognizes Binh Loi yellow apricot craft village

Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai has just signed a decision to recognize the yellow apricot growing craft village in Binh Loi commune, Binh Chanh district. Thus, Binh Loi yellow apricot growing craft village enjoys preferential policies on rural industry development.

On the same day, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai also signed a decision to recognize the traditional profession of rice paper production in Phu Hoa Dong commune, Cu Chi district.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested Binh Chanh and Cu Chi districts to be responsible for organizing the announcement of the decision to recognize traditional occupations in the two craft villages. At the same time, manage investment activities to develop craft villages in accordance with the local socio-economic development plan.

Currently, Binh Loi commune has about 610 hectares of land growing yellow apricots, with more than 500 households participating in growing yellow apricots. According to calculations, the revenue per hectare of land growing yellow apricots is about 500 million to 1 billion VND/year.

Phu Hoa Dong commune has 70 enterprises, establishments, and cooperatives of rice paper craft villages and 15 households making rice paper by hand. The number of households participating in rice paper production is 940/7,260 households in the area.

Contribute nearly 700 million to support disadvantaged environmental workers in the North

As of early October, the Vietnam Urban Environment and Industrial Zones Association has received VND687 million from the Urban Environment and Industrial Zones Associations in the three regions.

The entire amount of money is used to support workers in difficult circumstances at 13 units operating in the field of environmental sanitation in the northern provinces.

This is to join hands to share and provide spiritual and material support to contribute to units operating in the field of environmental sanitation in the Northern provinces to overcome the consequences and damage after storms and floods; quickly restore infrastructure, restore production and ensure the lives of officers, employees and workers at the units.