Posts Tagged ‘ Ratios ’

Hard lessons for Vietnam as property slumps 

September 24, 2011
Hard lessons for Vietnam as property slumps 

  Workers clean the Keangnam residence tower in Hanoi September 20, 2011. Like many hoping for easy cash in Vietnam’s property market, Nguyen Thu Huong borrowed VND500 million ($24,000) from a bank in April to buy a new flat she didn’t need and planned to flip. The only question, she thought, was how big the [...]

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Vietnam to hike banks' forex reserve ratio 

August 31, 2011
Vietnam to hike banks' forex reserve ratio 

  Vietnam’s central bank said it will raise compulsory reserve ratios for foreign currency deposits from next month, the third increase this year as it strives to shore up the local currency and discourage the use of dollars. The move will effectively make it more expensive for banks to deal in dollars, which make up [...]

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Infants and the elderly: VN discusses population dilemmas

August 22, 2009
Infants and the elderly: VN discusses population dilemmas

A fast-growing population over 65 plus increasing imbalances in sex ratios of newborns present dilemmas for Vietnam’s population policy analysts. VietNamNet Bridge – A fast-growing population over 65 plus increasing imbalances in sex ratios of newborns present dilemmas for Vietnam’s population policy analysts.   Older but not healthier “Vietnam’s population is aging earlier than we predicted.  Vietnam [...]

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Bad debt ratio of banks creeping up

July 22, 2009
Bad debt ratio of banks creeping up

The State Bank of Vietnam has announced the bad debt ratio of the banking system at 2.52 percent of total outstanding loans, an increase of 0.35 percent over the end of 2008. Should this be worrying? According to Le Xuan Nghia, Deputy Chairman of the National Committee for Finance Supervision, the announced bad debt ratio, [...]

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The new favourite study branches

June 10, 2009
The new favourite study branches

Nursing, primary education, food industry and environmental sciences prove to be branches that many students are choosing to study at university these days. Students are making registration to take university entrance exams3,720 students have registered to take university entrance exams to follow the study branch at the HCM City Medical and Pharmaceutical University to become [...]

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University entrance exams: Top schools highly competitive

May 12, 2009
University entrance exams: Top schools highly competitive

Top-tier universities are seeing high numbers of registrations submitted for entrance exams, which means high competition ratios, enrolment experts concluded after checking all registrations. The Post & Telecommunications Institute and Technology has seen a record number of registrations, double last year, more than 7,000 in the north, while the institute will enroll 1,150 students for [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...