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...billion in bad debts. But Thuy says state-owned banks are in better financial shape than is commonly believed. Nonperforming loans have been cut from 20% to as low as 3%, he says. Industry experts say the real number is probably three times that, but admit Vietnam has made progress in reducing bad loans. "It's not a China-like situation," says Alain Cany, chief executive for HSBC in Vietnam. (Up to 50% of the loan portfolios of China's big state-owned banks were nonperforming when the country joined the WTO, according to Standard & Poor...
...homelessness has made more progress in the past five years than in the previous 100 thanks to Philip Mangano, the Federal Government's homelessness czar. When the history of the Bush Administration is written, we will remember Mangano as its finest appointee because he has had the courage to insist that homelessness must not be managed but solved...
...challenges of the new century, the rise of China, the big challenges of climate change, producing the best skilled workforce in the Western world and catching up to the government's failure to date on establishing a national broadband network." Doing a Kevin is a singular work in progress. Rudd and Labor are joined in a movable project whose chief author is clever and vulnerable, sincere and artificial, traditional and modern, controlled and controlling, meticulous and reckless...
...leaders admit privately they'll give Bush his appropriation when the current Kabuki is over. The question is, What, if any, restraints can they put on funding for the troops? Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin says the next version of the bill should tie continued funding to progress on reforms the Iraqi government has promised and failed to meet: "We'll send him a bill with economic consequences for the Iraqis if they don't meet their own benchmarks in 60 to 90 days. The President says he favors those benchmarks. Let's see if he means what...
...elegance that seems unusual for Harvard’s social scene, it attracts students from both within and without its ranks.THE FUTURE OF WOODBRIDGEWhile the Society seems to have achieved success extending its presence beyond the international community, some feel that it still has plenty of opportunity for progress. “I think it’s pretty visible in the international community,” says J. Francisco Martinez ’07, who attended Fiesta. But he did not feel that Americans were nearly as aware of the event. Perhaps more pressingly, the planned expansion...