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Vietnam Business & Weather Briefing (Sep 12): Moody’s upgrades ratings of 12 Vietnamese banks

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Business Briefing Gold rate: VND 66.15 million per tael (buying) – VND 66.97 million per tael (selling) Reference exchange rate: VND 23,253/USD Banking news: Moody’s upgrades ratings of 12 Vietnamese banks Export news: Vietnam runs trade surplus of USD 3 billion with the UAE Weather Forecast Cloudy weather remains in most provinces. Business Briefing Gold rate While the global gold price tends to increase, the domestic gold price this morning (September 12) stood still. SJC gold in Hanoi and Da Nang is bought at VND 66.15 million per tael and sold at VND 66.97 million per tael. In Ho Chi Minh City, SJC gold is bought at the same level as in Hanoi and Da Nang but sold for VND 20,000 less. Reference exchange rate The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at VND 23,253/USD on September 12, down VND 10 from the last working day of the previous week (September 9). With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, the ceiling rate...

Experts Contribute to Draft Revised Law on Domestic Violence Control

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Representatives from social and community-based organisations on September 12 shared with the National Assembly (NA) Deputies in Hanoi their activities in addressing domestic violence and discussed mechanism to join forces in tackling domestic violence for Vietnam . UNFPA Representative in Vietnam Naomi Kitahara speaks at the forum. Photo: UNFPA Vietnam The discussion was part of the consultative workshop held by the NA’s Committee for Social Affairs in collaboration with the Centre for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender – Family – Women and Adolescents (CSAGA) to review the draft amended Domestic Violence Prevention and Control Law (DVPC Law). High on the agenda of the workshop, which was jointly supported by UNFPA and the Government of Australia, was the presentation by the NA’s Committee for Social Affairs relating to the latest revision of the draft DVPC Law, following the comments by the National Assembly in June 2022. Representatives from Vietnam ’s Gender-ba...