PRESS DIGEST - Vietnam newspapers - July 6
HANOI, July 6 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories.
FINANCIAL NEWS:
THANH NIEN
-- Bank loans extended under the government's interest rate subsidy package have reached 372.27 trillion dong ($21 billion) as of late last week, up 4.25 percent from the previous week, the central bank said.
LAO DONG
-- Several banks have increased interest rates on dong deposits to more than 10 percent as they compete to raise more longer-term funds, the central bank said.
TUOI TRE
-- The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange .VNI said it had about 600,000 active trading accounts now.
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