The practice of giving and taking bribes among businesses and civil authority organs has become an alarmingly common phenomenon, a recent survey shows.
Greece said another 20.27 billion euros ($26.7 billion) in government bonds would be exchanged next week under a landmark bond swap that has already erased nearly a third of its debt.
Unexpectedly lasting rain in March ruined completely 2,800 hectares of salt and forced 3,600 salt producing households in Bac Lieu Province to incur a complete loss.
The recent bankruptcy of three seafood businesses has resulted in great losses of more than VND200 billion for hundreds of farmers in the Mekong Delta, according to preliminary statistics.
Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai urged relevant agencies to prepare and hand over land for the project to build a large petrochemical complex in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.
Commercial banks are striving to applying several risk control measures, essentially improving credit quality and reducing bad debt, as they confront a worsening problem with non-performing loans.