In a dispatch issued on Monday, Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung asked the tax and customs authorities and the local departments of finance to swiftly support local businesses that were damaged in the disturbances in Binh Duong and Ha Tinh provinces.

The new investment law aims to improve fairness and transparency, the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Legal Department deputy director Quach Ngoc Tuan told Dau Tu (Viet Nam Investment Review).

Several banks have recently presented plans or expressed intentions to complete mergers even as the nation continues to speed up the restructuring of credit institutions.

The banking system is plagued by low credit growth, huge liquidity but firms unable to borrow, and difficulty in selling mortgaged assets to liquidate bad loans, heard a meeting between National Assembly members representing HCM City and the central bank in the city on Monday.

Social insurance agencies have reported that businesses owe VND12 trillion worth of unpaid social insurance fees so far. With such a huge sum of accounts receivable, the pension fund is in danger.

Repeatedly affirming that its public debt is still within safe bounds, the government has till now never displayed any worries when presenting reports about the matter before the National Assembly. But the latest report is different.