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Several distributors have complained about a shortage of RON95 petrol over recent days.

Total Q1 registered FDI has reached a record high of over US$ 10 billion over the last three years, the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) reported.

Vietnam’s total trade turnover reached US$100 billion between the start of the year and March 19, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc welcomed Germany’s plan to ease conditions for Vietnamese guest workers, pledging to work with the German side on this issue.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with the CEO of the Dubai Investment Group (United Arab Emirates - UAE) Mohammed Ibrahim Al Shaibani on March 25 at the headquarters of the government.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he wishes that Chu Lai would strive to become a high-quality agro-forestry processing hub of the country to be able to meet huge demand in ASEAN, northeastern Asia, G7 and G20 countries.

Vietnamese importers and exporters should stay alert and take a proactive approach to risks posed by the unpredictable development of the US-China trade tension, experts said at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam's e-commerce market recording annual average growth of 35%.

Vietnam Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) announced on March 22 that it appointed Luong Thi Cam Tu, a board member of Eximbank, as the new Chairwoman of the Eximbank’s Board of Directors in the 2015-2020 tenure.

Two former leaders of the Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro have been given prison sentences for “abusing position and power to appropriate assets”.

Vietnam has failed to improve labour productivity over the last 10 years according to experts at the conference on enhancing national competitiveness.

Higher prices of coal and exchange rate differences were cited among the major reasons for state-owned Electricity of Vietnam decision to raise electricity prices.

More than 1,000 workers at a wholly Taiwanese-invested company in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau have gone on strike to demand for salary and meal quality improvement.

Investor sentiment toward emerging East Asia’s local currency bond markets has improved but there are persistent concerns about financial stability in the region, including ongoing trade conflicts, according to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest issue of the quarterly

Vietjet Air has begun selling tickets for three new routes linking the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho to Hai Phong in the north and the central provinces of Nghe An (Vinh city) and Thanh Hoa.

Retail electricity prices have been ratcheted up by 8.36% from today, March 20, from a current VND1,720 per kWh.

Vietnam has set a target to bring down power losses to less than 6.5% by 2025 under a recently adopted national programme on economical and efficient use of energy for the 2019-2030 period.

The Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi recorded the highest office yield in the world for the second half of 2018, with a market yield of 8.57 percent, according to the Savills World Office Yield Spectrum.

An official from the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced that Vietnam now ranks fourth globally, first in Southeast Asia, and second in Asia in seafood exports, with products now available in