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The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has provided preferential loans for around 2.6 million poor and near-poor families in the Northwestern region.

Average lending interest rate in November reduced 0.28 percent to 9.3 percent per year, the highest slide for the past nine months.

The Ministry of Finance and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) signed a 105 million USD sub-loan in Hanoi on November 30.

Domestic investors will receive no-interest loans of 100 billion VND (4.5 million USD) and less under a HCM City People's Committee's investment stimulus programme.

Additional loan agreements have been signed for the Hanoi train station-Nhon urban metro rail project.

The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa’s People’s Committee held a working session with a delegation from the World Bank (WB) on an environmental sanitation project in Nha Trang City on November 20

More flexible policies are needed to gradually restructure public debt and ensure debt safety, Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung was speaking at the Q&A session of the 10th meeting of the 13th NA.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a 100-million-USD loan to upgrade a 66.4 km section of road connecting the towns of Eindu and Kawkareik in Myanmar’s Kayin state.

The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) on November 5 signed an agreement to secure a five-year loan worth 200 million USD from the China Development Bank (CDB).

Lending interest rates will remain steady despite a recent upward trend in deposit rates, experts have forecast.

The chairman of the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) has recommended the National Assembly issue special legal regulations to expedite the current sluggish sales of non-performing loans (NPLs).

A ​three-year project on building policies and helping female victims of sexual abuse integrate into society has yielded encouraging outcomes, as heard during a conference held in Hanoi on October 26.

Demand for consumer credit is growing strongly and it is time to eradicate private money lending, a round table on financial issues heard in Ho Chi Minh City on October 20.

Government Decree 89, valid from November 25, will address roadblocks in fishermen’s ship building process regulated in Decree 67.

The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Da Nang city has announced that it will work with related parties to open new river tourism programmes.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a 60-million-USD loan for Cambodia to increase its agricultural production by rehabilitating and modernising irrigation systems.

The Prime Minister has approved the construction of 25 bridges to replace weak structures nationwide under the transport credit project funded by the JICA to improve national transport.

Credit growth by August 10 reached 8.3 percent compared to December last year, much higher than during the same period last year.

Japan has pledged to provide a 2 billion USD loan to the Philippines in order to upgrade the national railway system, according to a statement released by the Philippines’ Foreign Ministry.

Demands for loans in US dollars have again increased in recent months, thanks to low interest rates and a stable exchange rate.