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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.

The agriculture ministry has called on central and northern provinces hit by the worst drought in 40 years to encourage a major shift from rice cultivation to drought-resistant crops.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and Murphy Oil Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Washington D.C to boost cooperation in oil and gas projects.

The head of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communication said the city was in the process of setting up an e-government that would play a critical role in building a "smart" city through information and

Vietnam is looking at building a USD50bn express north-south rail link from 2020, said Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Ngoc Dong.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong witnessed the signing of four cooperation agreements totaling 507 million USD between Vietnam and the World Bank (WB) aiming to support Vietnam’s agricultural development, green transport and poverty reduction in Washington D.C., on