Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Tinh has instructed to prepare amendments to the law on entry, exit and transit of foreigners and to extend visa-free stay for them from 15 to 45 days, according to Vietnam Net.
“The majority of cabinet members agreed with the proposal to increase the visa-free stay in Vietnam for tourists from a number of countries from 15 to 45 days, and the period of stay on an online visa from 30 to 90 days,” the publication writes.
Currently, Vietnam offers a single-entry electronic visa for a month for tourists from 80 countries.
Vietnam has become one of the first countries in Southeast Asia to fully open to international tourism after the pandemic coronavirus. Last year, only 3.6 million tourists visited the country, 20% of the pre-pandemic level.
In 2023, Vietnam plans to welcome 8 million foreign travelers.
PJSC “Multiplex-Holding” (Kiev), which develops a network of cinemas Multiplex in Ukraine, at the end of 2022 received UAH 8.6 million net profit, while 2021 ended with a loss of UAH 47.3 million.
According to the company announcement in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSCM) about the annual general meeting of shareholders on April 28, the profit is planned to be used to replenish working capital.
According to preliminary data, the uncovered loss of Multiplex-Holding decreased slightly last year and amounted to UAH 378.6 mln. Total accounts receivable increased by 86% up to 299 million UAH, current liabilities increased by 4% to 1.13 billion UAH, while the long-term liabilities at the end of the year were absent.
Last year, fixed assets of PJSC decreased by 18% to UAH 399.5 mln, inventory – by 41% to UAH 27.2 mln. The value of assets in 2022 increased by 6.4% to UAH 841.7 mln.
According to the meeting agenda the shareholders also plan to approve the loan agreement with FUIB with the possibility of obtaining individual loans of up to UAH 100 mn for a term of up to five years and a loan rate of no more than 30% per annum.
As reported, the net loss of “Multiplex-Holding” in 2021 was UAH 47.3 million, in 2020 – UAH 187.6 million.
Multiplex-Holding was founded in 2003. At the end of 2022 the network consisted of 29 cinemas, eight of which suffered varying degrees of damage due to the Russian military aggression.
According to the NKTSBFR, the shareholders of CHA for the fourth quarter of 2022 were “AMC Contador” PVNZIF “Avior” (13.9%), “AMC Capital Group” PVNZ “Capital Record” (11%) and PVNZ “National Capital” (7.6%), “Investrotbud” (9.8%), and “ZNVKIF “Vasat” (49%).
According to Opendatabot, Ksenia Trofimenko is the ultimate beneficiary of Multiplex-Holding.
Significant consumer outages are taking place in eight regions in western and southern Ukraine as a result of bad weather (stormy wind and snow and rain), which caused damage to distribution system operators’ (DSO) networks, the NEC Ukrenergo said.
According to its update in the Telegram channel, these are the Volyn, Lviv, Zakarpattya, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Chernivtsi and Odessa regions.
The company noted that repair teams of distribution system operators (DSOs) are working to repair the damage and restore power supply.
In addition, consumption restrictions are applied in Zhytomyr region due to significant damage to the networks as a result of repeated attacks of the Russians. The situation with power supply along the front line also remains difficult, where, in particular, on Monday, Russian shelling damaged the OSR networks in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
In general, the power system due to lower temperatures consumption is slightly higher than on Monday, nevertheless, the production of electricity is enough to cover it, confirmed the NEC.
Also, Ukrenergo reported the completion of Tuesday’s emergency work and the connection of 5 pieces of critical equipment at various sites on its backbone networks.
“This allowed to eliminate some grid limitations and increase the reliability of power supply in certain regions,” the NEC said in a statement.
At the same time, the company noted that such work in peacetime would have involved the reconstruction of several substations and would have lasted several months. The company thanked its Lithuanian colleagues for providing part of the equipment for the restoration.
As previously reported, the Ministry of Energy also reported about power outages on Tuesday due to bad weather in the western regions of the country.
Ukrainian agrarians in 2023 plan to increase sown areas under onions, carrots and other vegetables, which will allow for a larger than in 2022 harvest, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky said.
“The Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food is working to fill the market and stabilize prices. This should be done not through regulation or limitation but through market mechanisms. Because regulation of prices, as practice shows, is realized in the shadow turnover,” – said the official on the air of the marathon “Unified News”.
Speaking about the current prices of vegetables, Vysotsky said that the prices of vegetables are the highest in spring, which is explained by the seasonal factor.
In addition, according to him, their cost was affected by two other factors. “First, the energy crisis created by the aggressor country prevented a large part of the harvest from being saved. Second, many vegetables, primarily onions and carrots, were grown in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Because of the occupation of these regions, vegetables were not available to Ukrainian consumers,” Vysotsky said and expressed confidence that prices would go down with the arrival of the new crop.
According to Gosstat, prices for vegetables in Ukraine for the year to the beginning of March rose by 36.2%, fruit – by 74.9%, while inflation was 24.9%.
Oil prices of benchmark grades are declining in trading on Tuesday after reaching their highest levels in the last two weeks a day earlier.
At 8:01 a.m., May futures for Brent at ICE Futures Exchange in London stood at $77.8 per barrel, down $0.32 (0.4%) from the previous session’s close. Those contracts rose by $3.13 (4.2%) to $78.12 per barrel at Monday’s trading.
WTI futures for May at electronic trades of NYMEX decreased by $0.04, to $72.77 per barrel. Contracts rose $3.55 (5.1%) to $72.81 a barrel in the previous session.
“The crystal ball, which was clouded by the banking crisis, now shows an opportunity for profit in the oil market,” believes Manish Raj, managing director of Velandera Energy Partners. According to him, “After the disorderly sell-off in mid-March, cooler thinking has begun to prevail as traders see falling oil prices as a good entry point into the market,” MarketWatch reports.
However, analysts continue to fear the possibility of a recession in the U.S. economy, which is weighing on the market, Trading Economics reported.
In 2023-2028, Uzbekistan will implement a project to create a value chain in the fruit and vegetable industry with the participation of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The total cost of the project is $323 million, including:
– a loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) – $200 million;
– the contribution of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Project in the form of value added tax coverage and customs duty exemptions – $58.3 million;
– contribution of Project participants (loan recipients – Project initiators) – $64.8 million.
The project is being implemented in all regions of Uzbekistan, and its implementation period is 6 years – from 2023 to 2028.
The International Center for Strategic Development and Research in Food and Agriculture under the Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan has been appointed as the executive body responsible for the timely and complete implementation, coordination and management of the project.
