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PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 30 in Ha Noi presided over a meeting on macro-economic performance in May and the first five months with ministerial and sectorial leaders.

An investment of VNĐ5.5 trillion (US$247 million) is needed for construction of the proposed cable-stayed bridge Mỹ Thuận No 2, according to Project Management Unit No 7 (PMU 7).

The Global Software Survey done by the Software Alliance (BSA) shows even though software piracy rate in Vietnam dropped to 78%, it is still high and company leaders should be aware of possible cyber attacks.

There were more than 44,700 newly established enterprises in Vietnam with total capital of VND349.5 trillion (US$15.5 billion) in the first five months of this year.

The central highlands province of Kon Tum is withdrawing approval for a VND1.6 trillion cattle project run by Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group (HAG) in Ia H'Drai District, officials said.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) pledges in the first five months of 2016 reached US$10.159 billion, up 136.4% over the same period last year, the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) reported.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called on Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation to pour more investments in Vietnam, especially in the field of production, and speed up the implementation of its existing projects in the country.

More than 600 households living at the Harmona Apartment Building in HCM City were shocked when discovering their flats going to be seized by a local bank because the developer had used them as collateral.

Seven years after its first proposal, Vietnam’s government decree on the casino business has yet to be approved despite undergoing many revisions.

Pumping up the world economy is an "urgent priority" G7 leaders said on Friday, but left the door open for a go-your-own-way approach in a sign of lingering divisions over how to boost growth.

Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Ltd. in Ha Tinh Province is being required to pay billions in back taxes by the Taxation Department and Customs Department.

Vietnam recorded some 225,000 unemployed graduates in the first quarter of 2016 while many industrial zones are still facing serious lack of qualified staff, according to a local official.

The Da Nang Start-up Fair 2016 will be held on June 18, as part of a plan to make the locality a start-up city, Ly Dinh Quan, Vice Director of the Entrepreneurship Support Company Ltd., the organiser of the

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the Vietnam-Japan high-level economic policy dialogue on May 26, right after his arrival in Nagoya city, Japan’s Aichi prefecture.

The US Senate has approved by 55 votes to 43 a bill that would repeal the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s catfish inspection programme.

The Ministry of Transport has announced 26 contractors that are considered to have delivered below-par performances after an inspection of 480 contractors in Vietnam.

Buyers from Hanoi accounted for approximately 80 per cent of all purchases in Phu Quoc Island’s real estate market, according to the latest Savills report on the island’s market in the first quarter, released on May 23.

The central bank should evaluate the possibility of raising the interest rate on US dollar deposits instead of keeping it at zero per cent as it currently is to avoid side effects.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang stated that the city will create all possible business conditions for US and foreign investors for mutual benefit, during a meeting with a group of US investors