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The Ministry of Construction has requested that the Ministry of Transport and the investor of the Noi Bai-Lao Cai Highway investigate the causes for cracks on the route.

Young entrepreneurs have asked the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) to consider loosening monetary policy to inject more capital into the market and stimulate economic growth.

An action plan, laying out a roadmap to develop four key industries under the Vietnam-Japan cooperation framework towards 2020 with a vision to 2030, was unveiled in Hanoi on September 25.

The Vietnam economy has added more than one million jobs in the first eight months of the year, meeting 64% of the annual goal, according to a report by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

A ground-breaking ceremony for a 200 billion VND (9.4 million USD) habour has been held in the Go Dau Port area in Long Thanh district, the southern province of Dong Nai.

Many groups and individuals have turned their attention and money toward Ly Son Island to get in on the ground floor of what they expect will be a tourism boom.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has released a report on the monthly incomes of 120 leaders of its corporations and groups for 2013.

Vietnam’s annual inflation in September as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) fell to 3.62% from the 4.31% rate in August although consumer prices saw a marked rise over the previous month.

Moody's has placed six Vietnamese banks on positive outlook, the credit rating agency announced on its website on Monday.

Ho Chi Minh City recorded a rise in its Consumption Price Index in September 2014, the municipal Statistics Office revealed on September 22.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed in principal to the construction of Phan Thiet Airport in the south central province of Binh Thuan.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) for September rose 0.51% against August, according to the Municipal Statistics Office.

Vietnam’s trade deficit was estimated at US$955 million for the first half of September, reducing the country’s total export surplus since the beginning of the year down to US$2 billion, according to customs statistics.

Vietnam-based property developer Vingroup Joint Stock Co (Vingroup) and Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) have been listed among ASEAN enterprises’ top 100 by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P), a world leading provider of credit ratings.

Thousands of farmers in the Mekong Delta have been worried about their livelihoods since the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment proposed to halt the operation of two sugar-cane mills.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao has suggested that Vietnam step up public private partnerships (PPP) by fine-tuning projects, to stimulate cost-effective investments.

The iPhone 6 has just appeared in Vietnamese shops and is being sold for prices as high as VND49 million (USD2,300) each.

Japan's JPE Group recently decided not to create a partnership with a Taiwanese company for a major steel project in Quang Ngai Province, bringing the project to a standstill.

Authorities in HCM City are continuing a citywide search for two products believed to contain illegally recycled cooking oil, or "gutter oil".