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More foreigners should be allowed to buy apartments and more small apartments should be built in order to save the real estate market, experts said.

In order to maintain market stability, the State Bank of Viet Nam will not remove the current cap on deposit interest rates.

Police have arrested leaders of Tam Mat Troi, a Vietnamese multi-level marketing company, for fraud.

Countries in Asia are drawing up plans to make the plastics industry sustainable, with a focus on plastic recycling.

The EU wants to hear Vietnam ’s opinions on specific fields for assistance, the EU Director General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Koos Richelles said.

Vietnam’s October consumer price index only increased 0.85% in October against last month, statistics showed.

In spite of years of harsh spending cuts and tax increases, Europe's debt problems are getting worse.

Members of the National Assembly urged the Government to apply a fully competitive retail power market sooner than the scheduled date of 2022.

Vietnam has dropped one place to rank 99th out of 185 economies in the World Bank’s Doing Business report.

With a trade deficit in October of nearly $500 million, the nation swung to an overall deficit in the first ten months of $357 million, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

HCM City's banks have started to collect VND10,000 and VND20,000 cotton banknotes to exchange for plastic notes.

The government said it may not be able to apply an increase in the minimum wage as expected due to a lack of finances.

With a young population and fast income growth, Vietnam is seen as a promising market for foreign fast-food companies.

Vietnam’s welded carbon-quality steel pipes exported to the US market will enjoy an anti-dumping duty of zero percent.

Property projects that have yet to finish site clearance and compensation issues should be suspended, said the Construction Minister.

Just weeks after its momentous launch of the iPhone 5, Apple is back with what is expected to be another hot gadget -- a "mini" version of its market-leading iPad tablet.

Asia will be the first to feel the impact of any Middle East oil supply disruption as regional demand surges, the International Energy Agency said.

The consumer price index rose in Hanoi by just 0.37% in October, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

Vietnam has been ranked 81st in the ICT Development Index for 2011, a jump of five places from the previous year's index.