published : 27 Dec 2017 at 15:07
writer: Reuters
HANOI: Vietnam's economic growth quickened to 6.81% this year from 6.21% in 2016, according to preliminary government estimates released on Wednesday.
In the last quarter of the year, the Southeast Asian nation's economy expanded 7.65% from 6.68% in the same period last year, the General Statistics Office said in its report.
The cabinet on Tuesday extended the deadline for personal income tax reports and cut land and building tax and property transaction fees to help cushion the effect of Covid-19.
An immigration inspector in Buri Ram province has been transferred to an inactive post over the approval of a visa to study Buddhist dhamma for a Chinese man who was subsequently caught in Bangkok trading in counterfeit goods.
NAKHON RATCHASIMA: More cases have emerged of elderly people being told to return tens of thousands of baht to the state after it determined they were not entitled to the allowances they received for years.
