Retailers nationwide, including fashion companies, restaurants, service providers and online shopping platforms, are offering attractive promotion programmes for women on International Women Day, which falls on March 8.

Nguyễn Văn Lý, deputy director general of the Việt Nam Bank for Social Policy, speaks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) about the challenges the bank has faced over the last five months implementing the Government Decree 100/2015 on the National Social Housing Program

HDBank, one of Việt Nam’s largest joint stock commercial banks, set up its first branch in Thái Nguyên Province on July 20, providing financial services such as loans, money transfers, and saving accounts, as well as highly-paid job opportunities for locals.

A large number of poor people and women in Việt Nam have not accessed mobile banking.

With an average monthly income of VNĐ5.5 million (US$261), nearly half of workers in Việt Nam felt that their income is enough to cover basic living expenses, according to a recent wage survey.

Police in the central province of Quảng Nam have detained six Taiwanese citizens on suspicion of fraud and asset appropriation, online newspaper Vietnamplus.vn reported.

HDBank has relaunched its Bach nien phat tai (100 years of prosperity) programme offering extra interest to several categories of depositors.

The People’s Court of Hà Nội on Thursday reached a verdict to punish five con artists from northern province of Lạng Sơn who helped a Chinese national in impersonating police to blackmail people.

Following the alleged misappropriation of VNĐ245 billion (US$10.78 million) from an Eximbank customer’s account, many banks are now enabling their customers to check their accounts online.

Preferential microfinance loans have helped improve the lives of more than 140,000 poor and low income women and their families over the last 25 years.