The State Bank of Vietnam has spent an estimated US$500 to 700 million of its foreign exchange reserves over the last few weeks in an attempt to prop up the dong, The Investor is reporting. This estimate came from WiResearch which also estimated Vietnam’s forex reserves to be at around

Reuters reported earlier this year that the State Bank of Vietnam–the SBV–had been injecting cash into Saigon Commercial Bank which was at the centre of Vietnam’s biggest bank fraud ever. This was to the tune of about US$24 billion. Fitch Ratings, however, has said that it is maintaining its current