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HCM City (VNA) - Promoting consumer finance and simplifying procedures for loan applications would be a priority for commercial banks, financial companies and microfinance institutions as part of efforts to limit black credit, a conference heard in Ho Chi Minh City on January 20. Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu considered abolishing black credit as one of the important tasks that has been continuously implemented across the whole credit institution system in Vietnam. In recent years, the SBV and credit institutions in localities have been cocoordinating with the Ministry of Public Security and local authorities in implementing drastic measures to limit black credit. In the future, the SBV will continue improving the awareness of local people about credit policies, loan packages and procedures for loan applications so that local people could easily access bank loans. Meanwhile, the State Bank will study and soon complete legal documents … [Read more...] about Promoting consumer finance to fight black credit: experts

The Bien Hoa Airbase was used by the U.S. military during the American War in Vietnam (1955-1975). The airbase is recognized as a hotspot due to high dioxin concentrations, which have remained decades after large volumes of Agent Orange, mainly compounds of a dangerous chemical contaminant called dioxin, and other herbicides were stored, handled and spilled at the airbase during the war. … [Read more...] about Vietnam, U.S. eliminate dioxin contamination from part of Bien Hoa Airbase

The press centre will work with all concerned agencies to provide the best conditions for the work of 500 journalists, reporters and technicians from 191 domestic press agencies, more than 60 reporters from 26 foreign press agencies covering the event on-site and 100 reporters from more than 84 foreign press agencies working remotely, according to Lê Mạnh Hùng, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, and head of the press centre. … [Read more...] about Record number of delegates to attend 13th National Party Congress in Hà Nội

Meanwhile, the headquarters of the District 9 government may be used as the headquarters of the Thu Duc City Party Committee, while the headquarters of the District 2 government might be turned into the headquarters of the Thu Duc City People’s Council and government. … [Read more...] about Thu Duc City Council elects key posts

They also include photos of memorable moments in the period from after the second congress, in the resistance war against French colonialists; and the “globe-shaking” victory of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign against France in 1954; the fight against US imperialists in the south as well as socialism building efforts in the north, like the “Dong Khoi” (simultaneous uprising) in Ben Tre in 1960, the General Offensive and Uprising in the spring of 1968, the “Hanoi - Dien Bien Phu in the Air” victory in December 1972, and the General Offensive and Uprising in the spring of 1975, with the peak being the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, which completely liberated the south and reunified the country. … [Read more...] about Photo exhibition held to celebrate 13th National Party Congress