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INTELLASIA FINANCE & BUSINESS NEWS - FEBRUARY 12, 2018
FINANCE
Reference exchange rate down at week's beginning
The double USD/VND management moves close to the Lunar New Year
Banks battle Tet ATM overload
Credit and capital mobilisation slow down in Jan
Local banks' revenues grow on increasing retail, services
Vietnam banks see more withdrawals of foreign shareholders
Bank profits reach a peak
Banks offer low Tet bonus but high retroactive pay
SeABank general director resigns
Life sentence upheld for banker who embezzled $51m
What can $3.05 billion worth of FDI bring to Vietnam?
Fruit, veggie exports estimated at 321 million USD in January
Textile exports to China growing
Market to bode well for coffee export
Government to allow food importers to self declare
Reasons for Saudi Arabia's suspension of seafood imports from Vietnam unknown
Tax departments collect $4.4b in January
Curbing 2018's inflation needs prudent price control
Petrol price stabilisation fund balance surges to more than VN5.1 trillion
Ministries to report conditions of State-owned firms in Feb
Head State capital manager named
2018 promising for foreign property investors
Property market attractive to both eastern, western investors
Plastics, e-commerce, power, steel sectors receive Chinese capital flow
Buying revolution
In flux
Domestic telecom providers face new challenges
More than 30 businesses earn over trillion dong of profits in 2017
Many tech firms to expand IT teams
Hai Phong slashes investment paperwork
New wave of Japanese investment in Danang City
VN, India eye greater trade in paper products
Australia grants Vietnam 24 million USD for transport development
Major opportunity for Vietnamese businesses to enter Romanian market
BIZ NEWS
Business Briefs 12 February, 2018
VN Index tumbles on dreary turnover
Bargain hunters rescue Vietnam's stocks
VN shares predicted to trade marginally before Tet holiday
SSI issues $50m bond to a foreign investor
Genco 3's IPO ends with only 3pct of shares sold
VNR aims to raise modest $6.2m from share sale
Pyn Elite increases holdings in a series of companies
Car sales in January go contrary to usual market situation
Local startups called to join Mekong Innovative Startup Tourism
HCM City proposes extending visa waiver
Tet flower prices picking up
Tour set for profitable Tet holiday
Tet speciality products fly off shelves in HCM City
Beware: Your homemade Tet delicacies may be industrially produced
Fruit prices might highly increase near Tet holidays
Rental cars hard to find for Tet
HCM City to launch smart school model
Airport transit station proposed at Trong Dong Stage
ZaloPay targets 1,000 points of sale
VNA operates Taiwan-CanTho flights
Asia's famous online store Monspace Mall enters Vietnam
Nafoods and new major shareholder shoot for high growth in 2018
MWG's Cambodian strategy to feature BigPhone expansion
Thailand's biggest solar firm plans $1.76bn in Vietnam wind projects
Vietnamese province forks out salaries to workers abandoned by S Korean employer
Spring Calligraphy Festival attracts the crowds
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