HANOI, July 15 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
FINANCIAL NEWS:
VIETNAM NEWS
-- Banks have failed to expand personal loans due to high interest rates, bankers said.
LAO DONG
-- The central bank said it had injected 11.5 trillion dong ($602 million) into the banking system via open market operations on Monday and Tuesday alone, compared with nearly 19.5 trillion dong pumped via transactions between July 1-8.
THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM
-- Partly private Vietcombank said it will sell 5 million Eximbank shares from the 77.1 million it holds between July 19 and Sept. 19.
-- Eximbank's gross profit in the first half of the year increased 12 percent from the same period last year to 918 billion dong ($48 million).
-- Partly private Maritime Bank will raise its registered capital to 10 trillion dong ($523 million) from 3 trillion dong ($157 million) by share issues this year.
ECONOMIC AND GENERAL NEWS:
VIETNAM NEWS
-- Prolonged drought in the past month has destroyed fully or partly a total of 95,000 hectares (235,000 acres) of rice in central Vietnam, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
TUOI TRE
-- Companies in the country's top coffee-growing province of Daklak had bought around 17,000 tonnes of beans under the stockpiling plan as of July 9 and have ceased buying due to short supply, the state-run Agriculture Bank branch in Daklak said.
(Reporting by Hanoi Newsroom)
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FINANCIAL NEWS:
VIETNAM NEWS
-- Banks have failed to expand personal loans due to high interest rates, bankers said.
LAO DONG
-- The central bank said it had injected 11.5 trillion dong ($602 million) into the banking system via open market operations on Monday and Tuesday alone, compared with nearly 19.5 trillion dong pumped via transactions between July 1-8.
THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM
-- Partly private Vietcombank said it will sell 5 million Eximbank shares from the 77.1 million it holds between July 19 and Sept. 19.
-- Eximbank's gross profit in the first half of the year increased 12 percent from the same period last year to 918 billion dong ($48 million).
-- Partly private Maritime Bank will raise its registered capital to 10 trillion dong ($523 million) from 3 trillion dong ($157 million) by share issues this year.
ECONOMIC AND GENERAL NEWS:
VIETNAM NEWS
-- Prolonged drought in the past month has destroyed fully or partly a total of 95,000 hectares (235,000 acres) of rice in central Vietnam, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
TUOI TRE
-- Companies in the country's top coffee-growing province of Daklak had bought around 17,000 tonnes of beans under the stockpiling plan as of July 9 and have ceased buying due to short supply, the state-run Agriculture Bank branch in Daklak said.
(Reporting by Hanoi Newsroom)
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