SCG Cement-Building Materials Co., Ltd., a member of Siam Cement Group (SCG), has just spent $156 million on buying up the shares of Vietnam Construction Materials JSC (VCM).

 Julian Fong Loong Choon, who represents Standard Chartered’s stake in Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), has tendered his resignation from ACB’s board of directors in the 2013-2017 term.

  Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has directed the implementation of the restructuring plan for Vietnam Television companies.

 The Prime Minister has issued a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) for the 2016-2020 period that identifies indicators to define poor, near-poor and middle-income households in urban and rural areas.