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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Finance and other relevant ministries to review tax policies and fix a new import tax rate for high-powered cars.

Vietnam will send a working group to the Philippines to learn tuna fishing and processing technologies, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam.

Police have arrested the disgraced chairman of the national oil and gas giant, PetroVietnam, Nguyen Xuan Son, on economic charges.

The WB expects Vietnam’s economic growth to hover around 6-6.2 percent in 2015, underpinned by further recovery in domestic demand, robust private consumption and investment growth.

Sales of automobiles rose in most segments during the first half of the year in comparison with the same period last year.

Visa exemptions for five more countries in Europe should result in a rise of visitors by 50 percent over the next three years, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism said.

Tran Anh Tuan of HCM City's Tan Binh District, who has a Dong A Bank ATM card, recently had to pay VND5,500 for making an internal funds transfer.

The retail property segment in the two major cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City saw recovery in occupancy but not in rent, Savills Vietnam said.

State budget collection for the next five years is expected to make up 20-21 percent of the GDP, Deputy Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan said at a meeting of the Ministry’s Party Committee on July 17.

Lobster farmers in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa are facing big losses as prices are sharply falling.

The Vietnam-Thailand joint committee on bilateral trade will meet in Bangkok on July 20 to discuss ways to boost agricultural trade.

The value of the US dollar against the dong will increase at least 3 per cent this year, the Vietcombank Securities Co (VCBS) has forecast.

After four year's development, social housing projects have still yet to attract the low-income buyers they were intended for, due to complicated legal procedures and unaffordable prices.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Vietnam Forum 2015 organising board announced at a July 16 press conference that the event is scheduled to take place on August 6.

A bevy of workers are carefully sorting and grading an enormous pile of lychees at a packing house in northern Vietnam. The best of the bunch will go to China.

The HCM City People's Committee has given approval to US-based company Jabil to expand its operation in the city's High-tech Park with an infusion of 500 million USD.

E5 grade bio-fuel has been largely ignored by users though it has been available in seven cities and provinces since December 2014 and the Government is set to sell it nation-wide starting this December.

Thousands of tonnes of rice are piling up at border checkpoints between Vietnam and China in Lao Cai Province as traders on both sides try to get around export regulations to avoid tax and quota restrictions.

The UK is the only nation within the Eurozone has experienced a strong growth in shrimp imports from Vietnam, during the first five months of the year.