Business News

1. Digital banks attract customers
2. People fear shorter insurance payment period will reduce pensions
3. Vietnam's refined fuel imports hit 1.7 billion USD in January-February
4. FIEs frustrated with new abode rules
5. Ambitious action plan needed to lure international tourists
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1. Investors wary of more reduction in interest rates
2. Solution found to develop bond market
3. Difficult year awaits shrimp exporters: experts
4. Apartment ownership duration heats up again
5. M&A heats up the non-life insurance market
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1. Affordable home buyers to get loans with lower rates
2. Citi forecasts positive outlook for Vietnamese economy
3. Will Vietnam lose advantages to attract FDI with the global minimum tax?
4. Improving the quality of exported rice
5. EU Due Diligence Directive and Supply Chains in Vietnam
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1. Banks paying stingier interest rates to depositing customers
2. Construction ministry scraps $4.6B social housing credit package
3. PM requests favourable mechanisms, policies for innovation
4. Government acts to promote economic diplomacy for national development
5. Taxing second homes must be studied carefully: experts
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1. The paradox of low inflation-high interest rates should be resolved
2. Pawnshop chain F88 raises $50M in investment funds
3. Implementation of import-export policies to be streamlined: experts
4. Positive outlook for fresh banana exports to Japan
5. Taxes and emissions among growing digital concerns
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1. Increasing capital: pressure on banks
2. Vietnamese overseas investment surges over two-month period
3. Hanoi's retail, service revenue up 12.3pct in two months
4. Dong Nai's export turnover drops 28pct in two months
5. Vietnam's Competition Law: Notes for M&A Transactions
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1. Door wide open for processed, manufactured products to enter UAE
2. Initial credit growth quotas in 2023 granted to banks
3. Big four banks launch preferential interest rate loan packages
4. Vietnam's CPI edges up in February
5. Newly-established businesses drop nearly 18.5pct in February
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1. Promoting non-interest income: the inevitable trend
2. Korean insurer to acquire 75 per cent stake of VNI
3. Seafood exports rebound in the first half of February
4. Real estate market to reheat gradually in 2023, say experts
5. Construction machinery market lures foreign suppliers
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