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HDBank achieves excellent results in the first half, with its profit up 44.2 per cent, NPL ratio at only 0.8 per cent. — Photo courtesy of the bank HCM CITY — The Hồ Chí Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HOSE: HDB) has reported pre-tax profit of VNĐ4.19 trillion (US$183.9 million) for the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 44.2 per cent and equivalent to 58 per cent of the full-year target. According to its consolidated financial statements for the second quarter of 2021, total assets as of June 30 were worth VNĐ331 trillion ($14.5 billion) and outstanding credit balance was more than VNĐ199.16 trillion ($8.74 billion), up 5.8 per cent from the same period last year. The non-performing loans ratio of the parent bank was just 0.8 per cent, among the lowest in the banking sector. Total operating income in the second quarter was VNĐ4.25 trillion, which took the figure for the first half to over VNĐ8.422 trillion, up 32.7 per cent …

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COVID-19 patients with no symptoms will quarantine at home for 14 days Medics, volunteers battle to keep HCM City safe from coronavirus Stores work hard to follow limited operating hours Over 7,900 new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday 6,000 medical workers from all over Việt Nam volunteer to help deal with HCM City's outbreak Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính addresses a Government meeting with local authorities on COVID-19 prevention and control on Friday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The fight against COVID-19 will be long, even when vaccines are available, therefore, a new approach and new solutions are necessary, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính said Friday. Chính told an online Government meeting with local authorities on COVID-19 prevention and control, that the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Việt Nam had gone nearly 100 days. He also said that the pandemic situation, especially in HCM City and other provinces in the southern and central regions, was still …

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Pre-COVID-19 vaccination check-up (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health confirmed additional 4,992 COVID-19 cases in the past nearly 12 hours to 6am on July 30, including five imported patients. The current biggest hotspot of Ho Chi Minh City logged 2,740 new cases, followed by Binh Duong with 1,284 cases, Tien Giang 242, Dong Nai 203, Dong Thap 90, Tay Ninh 88, Ben Tre 79, Khanh Hoa 78, and Hanoi 63. The national tally of COVID-19 patients reached 133,405, including 31,780 recoveries. Among patients under treatment, 346 are being cared for in ICUs, while 19 are being treated with ECMO. Four localities experiencing at least 14 days without new infections are Yen Bai, Dien Bien, Quang Ninh and Bac Kan. The sub-section on treatment of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control announced 159 deaths due to COVID-19 from July 27-29, 132 of which are in HCM City, lifting the country's death toll to 1,022. On July 29, 208,041 doses of …

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HDBank's has posted bright performance in the first half According to the consolidated financial statements for the second quarter of 2021, as of June 30, total assets reached VND330.97 trillion($14.4 billion). Outstanding debts reached more than VND199.163 billion ($8.7 billion), up 5.8 per cent compared to the end of 2020. Currently, HDBank's asset quality is among the best in the industry with a separate bad debt ratio of only 0.8 per cent. Total operating income in Q2 reached VND4.25 trillion ($184.8 million) and the cumulative 6-month operating income reached more than VND8.42 trillion ($366 million), up 32.7 per cent on-year. Of this, net revenue from services reached more than VND857 billion ($37.26 million), 2.3 times as much as in the same period last year thanks to the strong growth of bancassurance and payment services, demonstrating that there is still a lot of room for growth. Management efficiency and profitability were enhanced with a sharp increase in return on …

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Leaving the place where she had been living and working for three years, Trinh and another nine friends from central Thanh Hoa Province were traveling on five motorbikes, their luggage including clothes, bread, and water. They left Binh Duong's Thuan An Town on July 25, only hours after deciding to flee. "I am returning to my hometown - I will come back when the pandemic is over," Trinh told her landlord. Six hours prior, she was lying in her room, surfing the internet to find a way to get home to Thanh Hoa. The neighborhood was deserted, as workers had left for their hometowns, while others were in quarantine. Trinh was yearning to be with her family, but that was next to impossible since all transportation was halt due to the raging pandemic. Having no job after the company was shut due to several Covid patients, Trinh had hunkered down for 20 days. The town where she lives has recorded more than 200 cases, while Binh Duong has logged 12,604 cases and undergone semi-lockdown. …

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Vegetables being loaded into a bus belonging to Bao Yen Construction Services Tourism Co., Ltd. in HCM City last week. Five such buses are being used to distribute vegetables around the city. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - I was surprised to receive a call from an American friend who lives in Singapore, asking about the pandemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam’s current COVID-19 epicentre with a daily record of thousands of cases. He was concerned that the situation could spin “out of control”, comparing it to India or Indonesia. I told my friend that he had called at a good time as I had just read a news story from the Singapore-based The Straits Times, headlined “Vietnam grapples with public frustration over COVID-19 pandemic missteps and transparency”, mentioning the growing unhappiness about the pandemic control measures. The story, I believe, described the situation in a superficial way. I have closely observed the global situation, especially …

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Dr Pham Trong Nghia suggested that the Government have scenarios on epidemic developments with different levels, possible impacts, solutions and policy adjustments in both the short and long term. Based on the current epidemic situation and the United Nations' guidance, Dr Pham Trong Nghia, director of the Legislative Science Information Center, Institute for Legislative Research under the National Assembly Standing Committee, said that Vietnam can consider and apply five pillars to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic. Dr Pham Trong Nghia. “Along with the fast, complicated and unpredictable development of the Covid-19 epidemic in our country, in parallel with the current measures, as well as the use of stronger legal tools approved by the National Assembly during this session, the Government needs to quickly develop a master plan on Covid-19 prevention and control," Nghia told VietNamNet on the sidelines of the first session of the 15th National Assembly (NA), which …

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Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen (L) and Italian doctors (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A series of online conferences themed “ Overseas Vietnamese join hands in overcoming the pandemic” will be launched on July 31 by a Vietnamese Italian expert team led by Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen. The activity aims to respond to the call by the Party and State leaders for the Vietnamese community’s support to the COVID-19 fight. In the first conference, the experts will share experience with Ho Chi Minh City in deploying family doctor system in Italy for treatment of COVID-19 patients. Speaking to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Italy, Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen said that since the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Government has valued ideas and experience shared by overseas Vietnamese in pandemic prevention and control. She held that Vietnam showed strong performance in pandemic control in 2020 with low numbers of infections and deaths, and high number of …

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Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (Photo: VNA) Beijing (VNA) – Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong ’s article “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path towards socialism in Vietnam ” affirms the soundness of the path towards socialism of Vietnam, said a Chinese official. In his recent article on Vietnam’s contributions to human civilisation, Han Fangming, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Chairman of Chahar Institute, a well-known think tank of diplomacy and international relations, the article systematically analyses the original ideal and development of socialism in Vietnam from the perspective of its reality. It points to the origins and goals of as well as persistence and firmness in a number of theories of Vietnam’s socialist-oriented market economy and the human-centered development strategy. Han wrote that the …

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HCMC hospitals discharge 11,200 Covid-19 patients in three days The Saigon Times Recovered Covid-19 patients are discharged from the Field Hospital No. 4 in HCMC. Over 11,200 Covid-19 patients were discharged from the hospitals in the city in three days - PHOTO: NLDO HCMC - Over 3,130 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals in HCMC on July 29, taking the city’s total recoveries between July 27 and 29 to over 11,200, the HCMC Center for Disease Control said today, July 30. The city reported over 4,350 recoveries on July 27 and over 3,800 other recoveries a day later. Although HCMC has seen thousands of new infections each day, thousands of Covid-19 recoveries in the city have been reported every day. The total number of Covid-19 patients in HCMC who have recovered since the pandemic hit Vietnam early this year has reached 28,320, the local media reported. After being discharged from hospitals, the patients must self-isolate at home, check their body …

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