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Discussions on the Long Thanh International Airport project in southern Dong Nai province was the highlight of the ongoing 35th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee on February 26.

Private airline VietJet Air has won a franchise for control of part of Terminal T1 at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport.

Thailand has decided to grant Vietnamese migrant labourers who arrived there before February 10 one-year work permits ahead of formal negotiations beginning in March on labour cooperation.

Vietnam's consumer price index fell by 0.05 percent in February compared to January and 0.25 percent from December 2014, according to the General Statistics Office.

Authorities must make bigger strides this year in improving the country's business environment, said Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh.

Peach growers in Hanoi are making good money caring for expensive trees bought during the Tet holiday.

Vietnam is the fifth most recognised coffee producing country in the US – the world’s largest coffee consuming market, according to a recent survey by the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation.

The Vietnamese stock market ended a rough year of 2014 with continued growth.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is striving to become the economic hub of the region by 2020, said Tran Thanh Man, Secretary of the city’s Party Committee.

Powdered coffee from the central highlands of Dak Lak Province, Vietnam's largest coffee-producing area has been found to have been tainted with soy beans and chemicals so coffee makers can boost profit.

Nearly 9,000 workers in 11 frozen seafood export processing factories in the southernmost province of Ca Mau have just resumed work after the Tet (Lunar New Year) vacation.

Demand for human resources in the IT industry in HCM City is expected to increase by 15-20 percent this year, delegates said at a seminar on "Software Testing in The Agile World" held recently in HCM City.

Online shopping grew 10 percentage points last year, but most Vietnamese still prefer to pay cash, a new survey has found.

The State Bank of Vietnam will allow domestic commercial banks to start companies responsible for transporting cash to branches and transaction offices in order to reduce related expenses.

Vietnam's economic growth for the three months leading up to April 2015 will quicken to an annual rate of 5.4%, the National Financial Supervisory Commission forecast in a recently released report.

A stable economy is having a positive effect on consumer confidence and this together with lower oil prices and interest rates should cause spending to improve this year, Richard Leech, Executive Director of CBRE Vietnam, has forecast.

The Electricity of Vietnam has asked the National Power Transmission Corporation to double efforts to put into use a number of power projects as soon as possible.

The Debt and Asset Trading Corporation (DATC) last year bought debts of 36 businesses, valued at VND825.4 billion (US$38.5 million), posting 52 per cent year-on-year increase.

Peach trees are blossoming around Hanoi, but growers are less than happy because the flowers have come too early for Tet and many are facing huge losses.