KBank and Vietnam Asset Management Co (VAMC) recently hosted a seminar on ways of handling non-performing loans, “Managing Distressed Assets: Learning from the Past and Progressing toward the Future”. Experience from the late-1990s Asian financial crisis was shared with Vietnamese public agencies and commercial banks.

Believe it or not, homework, not smog or housing prices, is causing nervous breakdowns for Chinese parents. Chinese social media are full of stories about neighbours hearing parents yelling while helping their children with homework.