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In the past two years, CIMB Viet Nam has continuously increased its charter capital, showing its commitment to long-term development in the country. Photo courtesy of the bank The State Bank of Viet Nam on Thursday approved the chartered capital increase of the wholly foreign invested CIMB Viet Nam Bank from the current VND3.47 trillion (US$150.5 million) to VND3.69 trillion ($160.1 million). Accordingly, the central bank promulgated Decision No 1241/QD-NHNN amending the charter capital of the bank’s licence. In the past two years, CIMB Viet Nam has continuously increased its charter capital, showing its commitment to long-term development in the country. Thomson Fam Siew Kat, CEO of CIMB Viet Nam, said: “CIMB considers Viet Nam as one of the most dynamic finance and banking markets in Asia and also one of our priorities. The charter capital increase would help us expand our investment, focusing on providing Vietnamese customers with modern finance and banking products as …

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Olympics Boxer Nguyễn Văn Đương (left) practises with teammate Nguyễn Thị Tâm in Tokyo. Đương will compete in the men's 57 kg category. — Photo courtesy of Việt Nam Olympics Team Thanh Hà & Bảo Hoa HÀ NỘI — It is time to show off, raise our voices and show that Việt Nam packs a mean punch when it comes to boxing. Vietnamese boxer Nguyễn Văn Đương plans to give it his all for his Olympic debut in Tokyo. Đương brought an Olympic slot home after 32 years of waiting, with a successful bronze medal from a qualification tournament last March. "I’m feeling very hopeful and excited. I’m looking forward to the day I get to compete," Đương told Việt Nam News via Zoom. "I feel pretty good about what I have prepared for the games up to this moment. I can harness more than 100 per cent of my strength." It will be the first and biggest tournament in the career of the 25-year-old whose best achievement is a silver medal from the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines. …

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Olympics Lường Thị Thảo and Đinh Thị Hảo set Việt Nam's best rowing result in an Olympics as they place No 15 at the women's lightweight double sculls event on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. AFP/VNA Photo HÀ NỘI — Rowing pair Lường Thị Thảo and Đinh Thi Hảo have achieved Việt Nam's best result at an Olympics after their performance on Thursday in Tokyo. The Vietnamese team finished third in the women's lightweight double sculls Final C with a time of 7min 19.05sec at the city's Sea Forest Waterway. They finished behind teams from Argentina and Austria. They placed No 15 in the overall ranking, however, this is the highest finish a Vietnamese rowing team has achieved in the last three Olympics. In London in 2012, Phạm Thị Hài and Phạm Thị Thảo placed No 16. Four years later at the Rio 2016 Olympics, Hồ Thị Lý and Tạ Thanh Huyền finished at No 18. In archery, Nguyễn Hoàng Phi Vũ could not get up over 2014 Asian Games champion Tang Chih-chun of Chinese Taipei …

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Vietnamese marksman Hoàng Xuân Vinh competes in the men’s 10m air pistol at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics today. — AFP/VNA Photo Olympics HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese marksman Hoàng Xuân Vinh failed to defend his Olympic gold medal in the men’s 10m air pistol at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday, but there were big wins in the boxing ring and on the badminton court for Vietnamese athletes. Vinh was ousted from the qualifying round of the men’s 10m pistol category after scoring just 573 points to rank 22nd, not enough to progress. Five years ago, he won the country's first ever Olympic gold in the 10m air pistol at the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil. He also won a silver in the men’s 50m pistol. "I tried my best but my result was not as expected," he said. "Today's opponents were all very strong. I have also learned a lot from this world's biggest sport event." The gold medal in this event belonged to Javad Faroughi of Iran with 244.8 points. While Damir Mikec of Serbia and Pang …

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CPI growth in Jan-July lowest since 2016 The Saigon Times Consumers choose vegetables at a supermarket. The country’s consumer price index in the January-July period of the year grew 1.64% - PHOTO: TNO HCMC - The country’s consumer price index (CPI) in the January-July period grew 1.64% year-on-year, the lowest for the period since 2016, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). In July alone, the CPI inched up 0.62% over the previous month and 2.25% against the same period last year, the local media reported. The GSO attributed the slight increase in the CPI this month to the higher prices of food and foodstuff in localities practicing social distancing given the local residents’ purchase of products for stockpiling, fuels and gas in line with the global fuel and gas prices and electricity given the higher demand during these hot days. In the seven-month period, the core inflation, which excludes the prices of fresh food, energy and State-controlled …

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The Temple of Literature Complex is the place that witnessed and retained the development of Dai Viet ’s education, and a historical and cultural relic that promotes the country’s cultural values to international friends. During the Ly Dynasty, especially from the King Ly Nhan Tong onward, recognising the significance of education to the nation, the court decided to build Quoc Tu Giam (the first national university of Viet Nam), carrying out exams to choose the talented, which opened a milestone for the nation’s Confucian education. Of note, in February of the 4th year of Thai Ninh era (1075) under the reign of King Ly Nhan Tong, the court held the “Minh kinh bac hoc” exam to look for well-educated people to be appointed as the court’s officials. This is the ever first exam in Viet Nam history. Over hundreds of years of development, the education system, despite ups and downs, has successfully carried out the mission passed down by the ancestors, to foster the nation’s …

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A production line at Tien Hung Garment and Textile JSC in the northern province of Hung Yen. Apparel is one of the products that can be successfully exported to Africa. — VNA/VNS Photo Pham Kien There remains room for Vietnamese exports to the African market, experts said at a virtual workshop on Viet Nam-Africa trade promotion held by the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) on Wednesday. Speaking at the event, Le Hoang Tai, deputy head of the agency, said Viet Nam has established trade relations with all 54 African nations whose population amounted to some 1.3 billion. Bilateral trade between Viet Nam and Africa has grown positively over the past year, hitting US$6.7 billion in 2020, he added. Nguyen Minh Phuong from the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Asia-Africa Market Department said Viet Nam has recorded a trade surplus to this regional market. She noted South Africa is Viet Nam’s main export market with a turnover of $681 million last year, followed by Egypt, …

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Apartment buildings in Hoang Mai District, Ha Noi. Mid-end apartments remained the most popular products offering to the Ha Noi market in the second quarter of this year.— VNS Photo Doan Tung The domestic property market has continued to show steady increases in the second quarter of this year. This, according to the Ministry of Construction, is because of a lack of new supply due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ministry said in the second quarter, housing prices in Ha Noi and HCM City continued to increase by 2-7 per cent quarter on quarter due to the low new supply, while many localities saw a slight rise of 3 per cent. House prices in Hai Phong, Binh Duong and Dong Nai increased by 5-9 per cent quarter on quarter. Rental prices for serviced apartments and offices continued to fall at a rate of between 1-3 per cent. In some big cities, rental prices for retail space decreased by 10-30 per cent quarter on quarter. Regarding the land plot segment, the ministry said that at …

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Ph.D Vu Thanh Tu Anh from the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management under Fulbright University Vietnam The group has eight members, including its head, Ph.D Vu Thanh Tu Anh from the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management under Fulbright University Vietnam and deputy head, Ph.D Truong Minh Huy Vu from Information Technology Park (ITP) under Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM). The remaining members area Assoc. Prof., Ph.D Tran Hoang Hai, Principal of the HCMC University of Law; Assoc. Prof., Ph.D Hoang Cong Gia Khanh from the University of Economics under Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM); Ph.D Nguyen Ngoc Nha Nam from the Integrated Telecommunication Technology Company Limited (VNIT) and ITP under VNU-HCM; Assoc. Prof., Ph.D Pham Duy Nghia and Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh from the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management under Fulbright University Vietnam; and Assoc. Prof., Ph.D Do Van Dung from HCMC University of …

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Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has signed a decision to establish an advisory group on policies on epidemic prevention and control as well as economic recovery. A photo of HCM City. The eight-member group is led by Dr. Vu Thanh Tu Anh, Dean of the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, Fulbright University Vietnam. The vice head is Dr. Truong Minh Huy Vu, from the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City. The remaining six members are: Dr. Tran Hoang Hai, Principal of the HCMC University of Law; Dr. Hoang Cong Gia Khanh from the University of Economics under Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM); Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Nha Nam from the Integrated Telecommunication Technology Company Limited (VNIT) and ITP under VNU-HCM; Dr. Pham Duy Nghia and expert Nguyen Xuan Thanh from the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management under Fulbright University Vietnam; and Dr. Do Van Dung from HCMC University of …

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