20-12-2017 14:26
Four cycling machines attached to a water filtration system have been installed on the banks of Hoàng Cầu Lake in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District to purify the lake water.
17-12-2017 10:28
Banks, including state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank), are worried that Chu Lai Soda Processing JSC (Chu Lai Soda) will default on its VND2 trillion ($88.1 million) debt as the soda processing factory has been forced to suspend its operations since August 2016 due to violations in discharge, according to newswire Baolaodong.
15-12-2017 10:05
SEOUL: South Korea on Wednesday (Dec 13) banned its financial institutions from dealing in virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, as the cryptocurrency soars in a bubble fuelled by retail speculators, many of them from the country.
13-12-2017 15:00
Two years to the day since 195 nations sealed the Paris Agreement to avert worst-case climate change, banks and companies announced billions of dollars of intended divestments from coal, oil and natural gas at a finance-themed climate summit.
13-12-2017 09:18
PARIS: Major banks and companies vowed on Tuesday (Dec 12) to accelerate the move away from Earth-warming fossil fuels as world leaders met in Paris seeking to unlock new cash for the global economy's shift to greener energy.
04-12-2017 17:21
Numerous financial institutions such as Eximbank, Vietbank, CB Bank, Oceanbank, and GP Bank have failed in scraping away their million-dollar accumulated losses despite their ever-growing profitability over the past first three quarters of 2017, causing major concerns to shareholders.
30-11-2017 11:00
NEW YORK: Strong gains by banks helped propel the Dow to a second straight record on Wednesday (Nov 29) following robust US growth data, but high-flying technology shares tumbled, denting the Nasdaq.
29-11-2017 08:00
A new law is set to ban bank owners in Vietnam from taking up senior positions at non-financial firms, a move aimed at overhauling the banking sector, which has been mired in cross-holding controversy.
27-11-2017 18:00
The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has released a list of 42 commercial banks, which are eligible to provide guarantees for future home purchases, according to Circular 13/2017.
27-11-2017 16:41
Fifteen Vietnamese banks have recently been named in The Asian Bankers’ AB500 ranking and survey of Asia Pacific’s strongest banks.
21-11-2017 11:52
Several banks announced they would auction the shares they are holding in companies, in the last two months of the year, on the Ha Noi Stock Exchange (HNX).
20-11-2017 15:30
The 47th ASEAN Banking Council Meeting, hosted by the Việt Nam Banks Association (VNBA), is scheduled to take place at Furama Resort in the central city of Đà Nẵng on November 23-24.
17-11-2017 09:51
A new study has found that only 37 per cent of women-owned SMEs Viet Nam have accessed bank loans in the last two years, compared to 47 per cent of male business owners.
15-11-2017 17:57
Aiming to reach the target to complete the selection the strategic investors before listing shares on the stock exchange, domestic banks are accelerating negotiations with foreign investors as well as propose the authorities to increase the foreign ownership limit (FOL) to lure in foreign investors.
11-11-2017 17:40
Many banks, especially small- and medium-sized ones, are offering high interest rates and promotion programmes to compete for the mobilisation of deposits.