• Dong devaluation cause for concern

      07/06/2016
    With a double dose of the Federal Reserve’s possible rate hikes combined with the Chinese yuan’s 1.5% retreat in May, there is concern it could trigger the dong’s further devaluation and have an unkind impact on the local economy as a whole.  
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  • Vietnam’s economy sees recovery momentum in Q2

      07/06/2016
    Despite a gloom in the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) in the region, Vietnam’s PMI continued to expand, reaching a ten-month high of 52.7 in May from 52.3 in the previous month.  
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  • Cabinet discusses 2016 socio-economics

      03/06/2016
    Cabinet members yesterday focussed their discussions on the country’s socio-economic performance for the first five months of 2016 in general, and for May, in particular.  
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  • Asia’s next economic growth frontier

      01/06/2016
    The next round of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a proposed 16-nation free-trade area that would be the world's largest such bloc, takes place June 12-18 in Auckland, New Zealand.  
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  • Dollars drying up as banks park them abroad

      01/06/2016
    Regulating the use of dollars in the banking sector is again in the news after overseas deposits of the greenback by Vietnamese entities, mostly banks, have skyrocketed.  
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