Bankers find SME customers most attractive

Small- and medium-sized enterprises are the most attractive customers for banks and other financial institutions, Sacombank Chairman Dang Van Thanh says

In a complete about-face from earlier this year, lenders are now falling over themselves to grant business loans, especial to smaller firms – as long as they can meet eligibility requirements.

Small- and [...]

Cashew SMEs in dire straits, most have closed down

A worker piles up husked cashew nuts at a factory in southern Binh Phuoc Province.

An acute shortage of cashew nuts and high production costs have forced a huge majority of small- and medium-sized cashew processing and exporting firms to close down, an industry official said.

“Most small- and medium-sized enterprises with low financial [...]

How to use professors’ brains most effectively?

–Hue University has decided to allocate VND360mil to 24/86 professors and associate professors who do not have separate offices to buy desks, computers and other facilities.

According to Associate Prof, Dr, People’s Teacher Phan Hoa from Hue Agriculture and Forestry University, in Vietnam, chief and deputy chiefs of bureaus have separate offices, while professors and [...]