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A bitter cold wave covered northern Vietnam on Sunday, lashing it with rain and cold northeasterly winds. The National Hydro Meteorological Forecasting Center predicted these conditions would last for a further ten days. The temperature has dropped to less than 8-9 degrees Celsius in Hanoi and r ...

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped the second day, retreating to near 480 points on January 10 as investors lost confidence. The measure of 276 companies and five mutual funds listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange shed 0.27 percent, or 1.31 points, to finish at 480.55 points. Among the inde ...

Commercial banks are set to cope with challenges and opportunities in 2011 as monetary policies will be more flexible, Dr. Le Xuan Nghia, vice chairman of the National Financial Supervisory Committee, said in an interview with Dau Tu Tai Chinh Newspaper. (Photo:Minh Tri) With the global economy ...

Interest rates are expected to go down this year because they are presently too high and cannot rise any higher, an economist has said. Transactions conducted at a Southern Bank branch in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: SGGP) This year has seen skyrocketing interest rates due to the soaring inflat ...

Ophthalmology doctors from Ho Chi Minh City have provided free eye operations to some 200 disadvantaged patients in the Mekong delta province of Soc Trang. From January 9 to January 10, ophthalmologists from Nguyen Trai Hospital conducted free eye surgery for 200 poor people, who suffered from c ...