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Vietnam banks to restrain credit growth amid bad debt worries 

January 20, 2012
Vietnam banks to restrain credit growth amid bad debt worries 

Many banks in Vietnam fear that bad debts could rise this year. Many banks in Vietnam say dealing with bad debts rather than credit growth is going to be a priority task for 2012. According to the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper, even large banks in the country fear that bad debts could rise this year. State-owned Bank [...]

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Different credit limits a rational move 

December 30, 2011
Different credit limits a rational move 

  Strong small banks should be allowed greater lending growth A local commercial bank’s employee counts money next to piles of dong notes in Hanoi on Monday The application of different credit caps on different banks based on their operational capacity is expected to correct a situation where banks with customers cannot offer loans while [...]

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Black Friday draws crowds, but spending in doubt 

November 26, 2011
Black Friday draws crowds, but spending in doubt 

  A woman pulls shopping carts through the aisle of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling [...]

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Stop chasing GDP targets, economists say 

November 15, 2011
Stop chasing GDP targets, economists say 

    Several economists are saying the government should not commit itself to any gross domestic product target, adding economic growth cannot be a forced process. Vietnam should just follow other countries and release regular economic forecasts instead, they suggest. Vu Quang Viet, who has worked with the United Nations Statistical Division, said GDP growth [...]

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Vietnam’s Ocean Group lowers profit, sales target on property market slump 

November 5, 2011
Vietnam’s Ocean Group lowers profit, sales target on property market slump 

  Ocean Group Joint-Stock Co., a Vietnamese real-estate and financial company, reduced its 2011 pretax profit target by 54 percent as a slump in the property market hurt its business. The Hanoi-based company lowered pretax profit target this year to VND380 billion (US$18 million) from its earlier forecast of VND825 billion, Chairman Ha Van Tham [...]

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Vietnam announces plan to restructure economy 

October 29, 2011
Vietnam announces plan to restructure economy 

  Vietnam’s government announced  key structural reforms for the economy next year on Thursday , focusing on improving state-owned enterprise and the banking sector. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the government will speed up share sales at state companies and review their operations. State-owned companies will have to focus only on their main business [...]

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Finance committee wants credit growth target reduced further 

September 9, 2011
Finance committee wants credit growth target reduced further 

The central bank has capped credit growth at 20 percent this year The National Financial Supervisory Committee says Vietnam’s credit growth target should be revised down to 15 percent to ensure loans do not expand too fast in the next few months, putting economic stability at risk. The central bank has capped credit growth at 20 [...]

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China unlikely to cool investment as its growth engine 

August 16, 2011
China unlikely to cool investment as its growth engine 

One-hundred Yuan notes are seen in this picture illustration in Beijing March 22, 2011. China’s long-term plan to cut reliance on investment as a growth engine is clashing with its short-term need for protection against a worsening global outlook. Beijing has made it clear that consumption, not investment, must eventually do more of the work [...]

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Some banks unlikely to maximize credit growth target 

August 11, 2011
Some banks unlikely to maximize credit growth target 

There is room for as much as VND300 trillion for additional credit Slow credit growth in the first seven months of this year has left room for banks to start boosting lending, but bankers say it’s not that easy. While large banks no longer have enough money to lend out, smaller lenders with ample funds [...]

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Things will get worse before they get better 

July 4, 2011
Things will get worse before they get better 

  There’s not much in the way of good news on the economic front. Clothes on sale at a ­­­shop in Hanoi last week. Vietnam is fighting to beat back raging inflation. Despite repeated revisions of growth and inflation targets, the former downwards and the latter upwards, they are not likely to be met, experts [...]

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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...