Business

In addition to a golf course approved to be built inside HCM City's Tan Son Nhat Airport, another is planned for Hanoi’s Gia Lam Airport.

Numerous violations have been found in the trade of low-income housing in Hanoi.

The central bank is consulting relevant authorities over a draft circular that would bring down foreign exchange position of local credit institutions.

Two milk importers in Vietnam have been rapped for exceeding their advertising and promotional spending caps.

Toyota will recall over 110,000 hybrid vehicles in the U.S, Japan and Europe because of faulty transistors in electrical power control boards.

WB signed an agreement to fund $330 million for the first Vietnamese hydropower project to be built with their funding in the last decade.

Japan's industrial output in May logged the second-largest monthly rise on record, signalling a continuing recovery for the economy, data showed.

A plan is in place to monitor public investment in Vietnam, which is expected to begin in late 2013.

For the first time in Vietnam, a Vietnamese American-styled retailer--Wonderbuy, has filed for bankruptcy.

France's Christine Lagarde was named the first-ever female chief of the IMF, faced with an immediate crisis.

HCM City authorities have approved a blueprint for a $300-million golf course, luxury resort and housing complex in Tan Son Nhat Airport.

China and Germany inked more than $15 billion in business deals but China warned Europe against interfering in its internal affairs.

Foreign investors poured USD5.3 billion into the country in the first half of the year, the Foreign Investment Agency reported.

Big-spenders splashing out on new high-end apartments have been left coping with substandard homes.

Almost all Vietnamese grocers across the Czech Republic must pay protection fees to Vietnamese mobsters, daily Lidove noviny writes.

Illegal coal mining continues in Quang Ninh Province, affecting the lives of residents and depleting natural resources.

Vietnam attained a GDP growth of 5.6 percent in the first half of the year, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Vietnam exported 3.5 million tonnes of rice in the first six months of this year, earning USD1.7 billion, said the Vietnam Food Association.

Vietnam's export value in June was estimated to hit $7.8 billion, lifting the total export value in the first half of this year to over $42.33 billion.