Business

Experts believe that in spite of the challenges clouding the sector’s outlook, the real estate market is bound to recover over the next two years.

Carrying passengers from here to there proves to be the most costly, time consuming and risky process when operating tours in Vietnam.

Vietnamese exporters have been taking hectic preparations to get adapted to the US new law on food safety, showing their determination to boost exports to the market.

Vietnam’s economic growth rate in 2012 is forecast at 5.2 percent. It is the second adjustment from the previous projections of 5.5 percent and 6.5 percent.

Up to 38% small and medium-sized enterprises admitted to paying bribes in 2011, up from 34% 2009, according to a report.

Specialty retailing is believed to be the dominant tendency in the near future, because this is the only model to be able to exist in the cutthroat competition among retailers.

Starbucks Coffee, the well-known coffee brand, will surely be present in the Vietnamese market with the first shop of the chain will be in HCM City.

Vietnam’s domestic bonds grew the strongest in East Asia in the third quarter with a value of USD21 billion, the ADB said.

Concern has grown over inadequate pesticide management in Vietnam, putting people and the environment at risk.

The Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in Hanoi on November 21 released its latest report on Vietnam’s business environment in 2011.

An economist said the mechanism to allow localities to license projects is among major causes of ineffective public investment.

Six tra fish producers in the Mekong Delta region recently achieved Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification.

Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index in November rose 0.10 percent on October but 3.9 percent from a year earlier.

Vietnam should have regulations to assess the ability of contractors, experts said.

Amid economic difficulties, many enterprises have applied several measures to bore their staff out of employment.

Banking mogul Nguyen Duc Kien’s case is a typical example of dangerous cross ownership, one official has said.

Eurozone finance ministers failed at an emergency meeting to strike a deal to unblock bailout funds needed to keep Greece from bankruptcy and said they would try again next week.

The latest housing designs and property developments will be on display at the VIETBUILD 2012 international exhibition in Hanoi's Vietnam Exhibition and Fair Centre.

Economists forecast that foreign remittances to Vietnam this year are likely to be $10-11 billion.