02-05-2016 11:00
Jetstar Pacific will be pumped with an additional $139 million from its founding partners to further develop its fleet and secure a bigger market share for affordable flights, despite its current accumulated losses of $151.9 million.
01-05-2016 17:10
The State Bank of Vietnam has formally requested local credit institutions to provide financial support to fish farmers and aquaculture businesses in the central provinces affected by the mass fish deaths.
29-04-2016 18:00
An humanitarian aid of $50,000 has been granted by the New Zealand Embassy in Vietnam to communities in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, where severely affected by drought and saltwater intrusion.
25-04-2016 11:29
The other investment account in Vietnam’s balance of payment (BOP) that was bolstered up to a whooping $7.3 billion in the third quarter last year was not something unusual or alarming. Eugenia Victorino, ANZ Banking Group’s economist for the ASEAN and Pacific region, explains the phenomenon to VIR’s Trang Nguyen.
20-04-2016 15:55
Eximbank has undergone another senior personnel reshuffle following its stock being placed under injunction on the southern stock exchange.
09-04-2016 16:49
Vietnam’s first quarter growth at 5.5 per cent was a result of the reduction in agricultural output and the sector could be in for a tough year, on the back of extreme El Niño effects, according to ANZ Research.
06-04-2016 15:07
The annual golf tournament, Swing for the Kids 2016, will tee off on April 23, marking the 10th straight year journey in a row of a creditable charity event to support underprivileged students, in many rural and remote areas of Vietnam.
04-04-2016 14:37
Vietnam may have such high ambitions with each of its IT projects that it may well delay the country’s realisation of its desired goals.
02-04-2016 09:48
ANZ Research is seeing fewer risks in the USD/VND exchange rate towards the end of 2016 and the green back is likely settling at VND23,000 a dollar in the last month of the year.
29-03-2016 11:14
Three schools in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang built as part of Project 3E, carried out by ANZ and Saigon Children’s Charity, have given local children opportunities to secure their future through quality education, in a sustainable way.
28-03-2016 11:14
Bad debts in Vietnam have continued to add up without any effective solution to cope with them. VinaCapital chief economist Alan Pham talks with VIR’s Trang Nguyen about why he thinks it is a good idea to adopt debt-to-equity swaps to reduce the number of non-performing loans piling up at the Vietnam Asset Management Company.
12-03-2016 15:34
Vietnam's second-biggest lender in terms of assets, Vietinbank, signed a $200 million syndicated loan agreement with 18 foreign banks in Taipei yesterday. The deal was arranged by BNP Paribas SA and Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank Co Ltd.
29-02-2016 11:40
Raymond Lim, director and country head of Citi Commercial Banking in Vietnam, speaks to VIR’s Trang Nguyen about the outlook of the lending market for small- to medium-sized enterprises in the country and how these companies can successfully secure a loan to catch the wave of opportunities in the context of Vietnam’s global economic integration.
25-02-2016 14:21
ANZ has been named as “Best Trade Finance Bank in Vietnam” in the World’s Best Trade Finance Providers Awards 2016 by Global Finance magazine.
23-02-2016 13:49
Japan-based Daiwa Securities Group will be investing approximately 20 billion yen ($177 million) in Vietnam’s Saigon Securities Inc. (SSI), in a bid to expand its operations in the Southeast Asian region, according to Nikkei Asian Review.