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Vietnam’s government has asked its central bank to help local fuel traders have better access to foreign currencies to pay for fuel imports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said late on Wednesday. The ministry, in a document sent to the State Bank of Vietnam, said the move would help …

The U.S. dollar has appreciated against the Vietnamese dong for 10 straight days, one of the longest such streaks. The dong fell by 0.6% to a record 24,511 to the dollar Wednesday, data from Bloomberg shows, after the central bank widened the daily currency trading band from 3% to 5%. …

Travel firms are seeing positive signs for inbound tourism during the year-end travel season as many western tourists target Vietnam as their winter escape destination. Peter Zimmermann from Germany said he and his wife plan to fly to Vietnam early December because they want to escape the cold winter in …