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A project to build a canal and several hydropower plants on the Red River in Hanoi has been met with concerns due to the risk to local agriculture.

Cabinet members mulled over the Government’s draft resolution on business development during their regular meeting in Hanoi on May 5.

The interdisciplinary inspection team led by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment started to check the wastewater treatment system of Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Ltd. to clarify the linkages between the company’s wastewater discharge and the

The Asian Banker Summit will take place at the JW Marriott Hanoi Hotel in Hanoi from May 10 to 12.

Thailand’s Central Group and a Vietnamese partner have beaten many strong local and foreign rivals in a highly competitive bid for Big C assets in Vietnam.

The long-awaited multi-billion US dollar refinery project in the central province of Binh Dinh is facing an uncertain future after nearly three years of registration for investment.

Vietnam’s GDP growth rate increased 5.46% in the first quarter of this year, less than in the same period last year.

The Republic of Korea’s (RoK) consumer goods firms are shifting their overseas focus to Viet Nam, increasing investment and aggressively opening new branches, Yonhap news agency quoted industry watchers in an article on Monday.

Domestic firms have taken the first measures in an effort to adapt to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s new regulation on tightening foreign currency credit.

As many as 10,954 enterprises were formed in April with total registered capital of VNĐ62.2 trillion (over US$2.7 billion), according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) had called for the rate cuts, before the PM took part in a dialogue with enterprises in HCM City on April 29.

The national index of industrial production (IIP) in the first four months of this year surged 7.3 per cent year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnam Airlines, the national flag carrier, started using its new generation aircraft Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for the Hanoi-Beijing (China) route, with the first flight landing in Beijing.

The Ministry of Finance has announced that the rating agency Standard & Poor’s gave Vietnam a crediting rating of BB-/B and a stable outlook, unchanged from the ratings announced in March 2015.

India has released its report on anti-dumping investigation into Plain Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) imported from Vietnam and Indonesia.

The Government vows to create favorable ways and create a fair playground for enterprises which serve as the driving force for national development, said PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc in HCMC.

Vietnam is forecast to grow 6.8 percent in 2016 and 6.9 percent in 2017, according to the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, released by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

The Vinaconex Water Supply Joint Stock Company (Viwasupco) has decided to relieve Bùi Minh Trường of his post as director of the Đà River Water Pipeline Project’s second phase.

The country welcomed approximately 3.25 million international visitors in the first four months of this year, up 17.8 per cent against the same period last year, according to the Vietnam National Aministration of Tourism (VNAT).