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Selling insurance products fetch banks trillions of Vietnamese dong (VND1 trillion = $42 million) in revenues each year, but with this comes dissatisfaction from customers who say they are “forced” to pay premiums to acquire loans. At the end of 2017, Vietnamese lender Sacombank and Japanese insurer Dai-ichi Life signed …

The U.S. dollar gained over the Vietnamese dong Friday morning to an 11-week high. Vietcombank sold the dollar at VND24,000 Friday, up 0.04% from Thursday to the highest since Dec. 8. Eximbank sold the greenback at VND23,970, same as Thursday. The dollar remained stable at Techcombank at VND24,005. The State …

The death toll from a coal mine collapse in northern China rose to six with at least 47 people missing as rescue efforts resumed after a landslide had halted the search for survivors, state media said on Friday. Six people had been pulled alive from the mine in Inner Mongolia …