January 9, 2012
Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested one Vietnamese and three Malaysian men for allegedly using fake ATM cards to withdraw money from local banks. They are believed to be members of a transnational crime ring. The first arrest, of Co Kim Thach, a 39-year-old resident of District 5, was made on December 30, [...]
Tags: And Credit Cards, arrested, Asia commercial, Asia commercial bank, Atm And Credit, Atm And Credit Cards, Atm Booths, Atm Card, Atm Cards, banks, Banks And Cardholders, Cardholders, cards, Cheng, Commercial, Commercial bank, credit, Credit Cards, December, District, District 11, equipment, Fake Atm, Fake Atm And, Fake Atm And Credit, Fake Cards, hotel, information, Made Atm, Malaysian, Malaysian Men, million, Million And Was, money, numbers, Police, provided, Roughly Made, Roughly Made Atm, Thach, Thach Withdrew, The Atm, The Card, The Information, The Men, The Names, The police, The Transactions, The Transactions Were, They Were Provided, They Were Provided With, To The Police, To Withdraw Money, using, Using Fake, Vnd40 Million, Were Provided, Were Provided With, With The Information, withdraw, Withdraw Money, Withdrew, Withdrew Money, Withdrew Money From, Year old
Posted in Social | Comments Off
December 17, 2011
Vietnam Tin Nghia, Ficombank and Saigon Commercial Bank will be merged into a new lender. Around 90 percent of shareholders at three local banks, Vietnam Tin Nghia, Ficombank and Saigon Commercial Bank, have voted in favor of the merger of the three. They also reached an agreement Thursday that the new bank formed by the merger [...]
Tags: And Saigon Commercial, And Saigon Commercial Bank, banks, Banks Vietnam, Banks Vietnam Tin, Banks Vietnam Tin Nghia, Commercial, Commercial bank, Ficombank And Saigon, Ficombank And Saigon Commercial, Lender, merger, Merger Plan, New Bank, New Bank Will, Nghia Ficombank, Nghia Ficombank And, Nghia Ficombank And Saigon, Of The Three, Saigon, Saigon Commercial, Saigon Commercial Bank, Shareholders, State bank, The Merger, The new, The New Bank, The New Bank Will, The state, The state bank, The three, Three, Tin Nghia, Tin Nghia Ficombank, Tin Nghia Ficombank And, Vietnam, Vietnam Tin, Vietnam Tin Nghia, Vietnam Tin Nghia Ficombank
Posted in Business | Comments Off
December 14, 2011
Vietnam's inflation is expected to slow to about 9 percent in 2012 and is under control, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the Consultative Group. Vietnam may undermine progress toward economic stability if it loosens monetary policy now, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank said as the nation struggles with the fastest inflation in [...]
Tags: 14 Percent, 15 Percent, And World Bank, banking, Banking Sector, Bloomberg, Central bank, Commercial, Commercial joint, Commercial joint stock, Commercial joint stock bank, Consultative, Consultative Group, Control Prime, Control Prime Minister, Control Prime Minister Nguyen, Dong Depreciation, Dung Told The, Dung Told The Consultative, economic, Economic Stability, economy, exchange, financial, Financial Sector, Foreign, Foreign Exchange, Government, group, growth, In 2012 And, inflation, Inflation rate, interest, Interest rates, Is Under Control, Is Under Control Prime, joint, Joint stock, Joint stock bank, Kalra, Ldquo, lower, Minister nguyen, Minister Nguyen Tan, Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, monetary, nation, Nguyen Tan, Nguyen Tan Dung, Nguyen Tan Dung Told, percent, Percent This Year, policies, policy, Prime minister, Prime Minister Nguyen, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan, rates, Rdquo, Resolution 11, Said Vietnam, sector, stability, state, State bank, stock, Stock bank, Tan Dung, Tan Dung Told, Tan Dung Told The, The Banking, The Banking Sector, The central, The central bank, The Consultative, The Consultative Group, The Fastest, The government, The Government Said, The Imf, The Nation, The state, The state bank, The world, The World Bank, The World Bank Said, This year, Told The Consultative, Told The Consultative Group, trade, Trade deficit, Tuesday, Under Control, Under Control Prime, Under Control Prime Minister, Vietnam, world, World Bank, World Bank Said
Posted in Politics | Comments Off
December 9, 2011
A branch of First Commercial Joint-Stock Bank in Hanoi. The bank and two other Vietnamese banks plan to merge to bolster their liquidity. Three Vietnamese banks plan to merge to bolster their liquidity and cut costs as a single entity, the country’s central bank said. First Commercial Joint-Stock Bank, Tin Nghia Commercial Joint-Stock Bank and [...]
Tags: banks, Banks Plan, Bolster Their Liquidity, Central, Central bank, Commercial, Commercial joint, Commercial joint stock, Commercial joint stock bank, Cut Costs, First Commercial, First Commercial Joint, First Commercial Joint Stock, joint, Joint stock, Joint stock bank, Ldquo, Liquidity, merge?, Rdquo, sector, state, statement, stock, Stock bank, The banks, The central, The central bank, The country, The new, The state, Their Liquidity, Their Liquidity And, Three, To Bolster Their, To Bolster Their Liquidity, Vietnam, Vietnamese Banks, Vietnamese Banks Plan
Posted in Business | Comments Off
November 26, 2011
An employee at Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, counts dong bank notes in Hanoi. Vietnam’s central bank unveiled plans to create a three-tiered financial industry dominated by 15 lenders as part of efforts to allay concerns over the nation’s banking system. The country aims to have 15 “big” banks by [...]
Tags: 15 Large, 15 Percent, 80 Percent, Bank For Foreign, Bank For Foreign Trade, banking, Banking System, banks, Banks That Are, based, Central bank, Commercial, Commercial bank, Commercial Bank For, Commercial Bank For Foreign, credit, Currently, financial, For Foreign Trade, Foreign, Foreign Trade, governor, Hanoi, Indochina Capital, joint, Joint stock, Joint Stock Commercial, Joint Stock Commercial Bank, Ldquo, Lenders, Local, Local Developer, months, Moody, More Shares, National assembly, Nguyen, Of The Year, Of Vietnam Known, percent, Rdquo, Sell Shares, shares, Smaller, Smaller Banks, state, State bank, State-owned, stock, Stock Commercial, Stock Commercial Bank, Stock Commercial Bank For, system, The Banking, The Banking System, The governor, The local, The national, The National Assembly, The year, Told Lawmakers, Told The National, Told The National Assembly, trade, Vietcombank, Vietinbank, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Banks, Weaker, Weaker Banks
Posted in Business | Comments Off
November 23, 2011
Film on gay men shows director approaching realism with confidence Hotboy noi loan va cau chuyen ve thang Cuoi, co gai diem va con vit (Lost Paradise), which is playing in theaters now, is Vu Ngoc Dang’s latest effort to make a serious movie that sells. The movie has taken part in several international [...]
Tags: &ndash, And Dep Tung, And Dep Tung Centimet, Cau Chuyen, Centimet, Centimet Beautiful, Chan Dai, Chan Dai The, Chan Dai The Leggy, Characters, Chuot, Chuyen Ve, Co Gai, Co Gai Chan, Co Gai Chan Dai, Co Gai Diem, Commercial, Con Vit, Convicts, Critics, Cuoi Co, Cute Animals, Dai The Leggy, Dai The Leggy Girls, Dep Tung, Dep Tung Centimet, Dep Tung Centimet Beautiful, Diem Va, Every centimeter, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Gai Chan, Gai Chan Dai, Gai Chan Dai The, Gai Diem, Gay Men, Gays And Prostitutes, Girls, High Minded, himself, His Movies, His Parents, hopeful, Hotboy, Hotboy Ndash, Hotboy Noi, Hotboy Noi Loan, In Every Centimeter, In His Movies, Innocent Past, Instance, International, International film, International Film Festival, Ldquo, Leggy Girls, Leggy Girls And, Loan Va, Lost Paradise, makes, media, Media And Critics, Mouse, movie, movies, Ngoc Dang, Nhung, Nhung Co, Noi Loan, Of Social Ills, people, Prostitutes, Rdquo, Realistic, reality, Reality And Dreams, Runaway, Runaway Convicts, Social, Social Ills, Social Ills That, Thang Cuoi, Thanh nien, The Commercial, The Hero, The Leggy, The Leggy Girls, The Leggy Girls And, The Media, The Media And, The Media And Critics, The Mouse, The vietnamese, This Movie, To Turn Himself, Tung Centimet, Tung Centimet Beautiful, Turn Himself, Va Cau, Va Cau Chuyen, Va Con, Va Con Vit, Ve Thang, Ve Thang Cuoi, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Filmmakers, Vu Ngoc, Vu Ngoc Dang, world, Young Filmmakers
Posted in Life in Vietnam | Comments Off
November 22, 2011
Vietnam’s lawmakers said Friday they did not agree that the heavier cash fines proposed by a draft law will be able to deter administrative violations. Ngo Van Minh, a lawmaker from the central province of Quang Nam, said while people keep complaining that current fines aren’t heavy enough to deter violations, they have ignored another [...]
Tags: administrative, Administrative Violations, Central province, Commercial, Commercial Sex, Commercial Sex Workers, Draft Law, fines, From The Central, From The Central Province, From The Northern, From The Northern Province, Health Clinics, Health Clinics For, Law Enforcer, Lawmaker From The, Lawmakers, Ldquo, Northern Province, province, Rdquo, Sex Workers, The Bill, The central, The Central Province, The Law, The Law Enforcer, The Minimum, The Northern, The Northern Province, To Health Clinics, To Health Clinics For, Vietnam, violations, workers
Posted in Politics | Comments Off
November 13, 2011
Wiping out small banks should not be the goal of banking reform A customer exits a branch of Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, in Hanoi. Bad debts at local banks are rising, raising concerns about the safety of the whole banking system. With bad debt exposure rising among local [...]
Tags: 2001 2005, 2001 2005 Period, 2005 Period, After The Restructuring, Bad Debt, Bad Debts, banking, Banking Reform, Banking System, bankruptcy, banks, Central, Central bank, Central Bank Has, Commercial, Commercial banks, Commercial Banks The, debts, financial, Government, Last month, Ldquo, Lenders, loans, Local, Local Banks, management, market, Mergers And Acquisitions, Nghia, Non Performing, Non Performing Loans, Of Commercial Banks, Of Commercial Banks The, percent, Performing, Performing Loans, process, ratio, Rdquo, reform, restructuring, rising, Saigon securities, Saigon Securities Inc, Saigon Securities Inc Said, Securities Inc, Securities Inc Said, small, Small Banks, state, State bank, State-owned, system, Thanh, Thanh nien, The 2001, The 2001 2005, The 2001 2005 Period, The Bad Debts, The central, The central bank, The Central Bank Has, The economy, The Goal, The government, The Ratio, The Recovery, The Restructuring, The state, The state bank, The System, The Whole, The Whole System, trillion, Vietnam, Whole, Whole System
Posted in Business | Comments Off
October 26, 2011
Passengers board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by All Nippon Airways at Narita Airport, Japan prior to its flight to Hong Kong. Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight on Wednesday, giving a handful of deep-pocketed passengers the chance to fly into history on what is touted as an aviation breakthrough. Carrying 252 [...]
Tags: 787 Dreamliner, airport, All Nippon, All Nippon Airways, Aviation, Boeing, Business Class, class, Class Seats, Commercial, Commercial Flight, Dreamliner, first, First Commercial, First Commercial Flight, flight, history, Hong kong, Hong Kong Boeing, In Hong Kong, Its First, Its First Commercial, Its First Commercial Flight, Kong Boeing, Made Its First, Made Its First Commercial, Narita, Narita Airport, New 787, New 787 Dreamliner, Nippon Airways, passengers, plane, The 787, The Aviation, The Day, The Dreamliner, The first, The Plane, To Hong Kong, Tokyo, Twin Aisle, Wednesday, Year old
Posted in International | Comments Off
October 17, 2011
An employee at Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, counts dong bank notes in Hanoi. Bank depositors are shifting their funds to other investment channels after the central bank ordered commercial banks to comply with a 14 percent ceiling on dong deposit interest rates. Several banks have said their deposits are [...]
Tags: 14 Percent, banks, Capital Securities, Capital Securities Said, Central bank, Commercial, Commercial bank, Deposit, Deposit Rates, deposits, Dong Deposit, Dong Deposit Rates, Dong Interest, Dong Interest Rates, Funds, His Bank, interest, Interest rates, It Was Only, Ldquo, lower, Lower Dong, Lower Dong Deposit, Lower Dong Deposit Rates, market, percent, rates, Rdquo, Said ldquo, September, small, Small Banks, Thanh, Thanh nien, The central, The central bank, Their Funds, Thuan, Viet Capital, Viet Capital Securities, Viet Capital Securities Said
Posted in Business | Comments Off
