Business

The State Bank of Vietnam has required credit organisations to stop allowing the depositing and lending of gold.

Lack of unanimity among ministries had deterred the development of Vietnam's motor vehicle industry.

Top agricultural exporter Argentina signed a raft of mostly farm-related agreements with China at a ceremony in Buenos Aires.

The trade deficit in the first half of the year was at $685 million, a 10 percent rise over the same period last year, reported the General Statistics Office.

France must find up to 10 billion euros to bring its public deficit back to 4.5 percent of gross domestic product, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said.

The CPI this June was the lowest it has been for the last 38 months, with only a 6.9% increase from the same period last year.

Land and houses ads can be found plastered beside concrete cutting and drilling and drainage dredging ads.

The trend to upgrade or replace traditional markets with supermarkets in Vietnam's urban areas was not necessarily a good one for shoppers or traders.

Many customers of Lilama Company in Hanoi complained that they were forced to buy apartments with larger areas than those stated in contracts they signed.

PVEP expanded its presence in South America by acquiring over 50% of a project to explore for oil in Peru, from the London based oil and gas company Perenco SA.

The fisheries sector will need 61 trillion VND for its development plan to 2020, reports said at a seminar on a master plan for the industry, which took place in Hanoi.

The health of 15 of the world's largest financial institutions has been called into serious question after Moody's downgraded their credit ratings.

Leaders of the eurozone's four biggest economies gather in Rome Friday to thrash out ideas to tackle the debt crisis.

“The Government has only implemented part of the solution to save the economy by reducing interest rates to 9%,” an expert said.

The Ministry of Finance has decided to lower petrol prices by VND300-VND700 per litre, the fourth cut so far this year.

The Southeast Asian economy is projected to achieve a growth rate of 6.5% in 2014 to rank 22nd among the 29th fastest growing economies in the world.

A full-blown bailout for Spain is all but inevitable as it has lost control of its debt crisis, despite Madrid's insistence that it does not need rescuing.

While many businesses face financial hardship some of the more unique parts of the service industry have been faring quite well.

Company executives are biting the bullet and sharing in their staff’s cash woes due to the difficulties their companies are facing.