SOE listings raise 81 million USD in capital Initial public offerings of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have raised a total of 1.7 trillion VND (80.9 million USD) so far this year. From the beginning of this year to May 14, 25 SOEs had their shares auctioned on the Hanoi Stock Exchange while on Hochiminh Stock Exchange, four SOEs were equitised. Most recently, Hai Phong Port raised 238.7 billion VND (11.3 million USD) in its IPO. About 47 percent of more than 37.635 million shares put on sale at an initial price of 13,500 VND (0.64 USD) a share, were sold at the auction to 78 investors, none of whom were foreigners. Hai Phong Port had the biggest charter capital among SOEs which launched an IPO, worth around 3.27 trillion VND (155.7 million USD), followed by Viglacera with a charter capital of 3.07 trillion VND (146.1 million USD). The Ministry of Transport had the most SOEs which implemented an IPO this year which numbered 9, including Cienco 1, Cienco 4, Thang Long Construction Corporation, Tedi and Vinawaco which were among 11 SOE overall had all of their shares sold at the IPO. Seven out of 25 SOEs did not have a successful IPO with less than 5 percent of shares sold. One of which was Cienco 8, with only 37,000 shares out of more than 10 million shares or 0.37 percent sold. Others included Hanoi Construction Corporation, Vivaso and Vinamotor. SOEs' IPO seemingly did not appeal to foreign investors as only Viglacera had foreign investors who bought 10.1 million shares, accounting for 52 percent of the total shares sold. Under the approved plan, 432 SOEs must be equitised in the 2014-15 period.-VNA