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Vietnamese farmers who once rushed to apply Good Agriculture Practices have become tired because their products cannot find buyers.

State-owned enterprises will have to sell foreign reserves in U.S. dollars to commercial banks from next month, the State Bank of Vietam required.

The number of phone subscribers fell by more than 46 million in just one month, according to the General Statistics Office Of Vietnam.

The number of phone subscribers fell by more than 46 million in just one month, according to the General Department of Statistics.

Some export giant tiger prawn processors are working at half capacity because of a shortage of raw crustaceans and consequent high prices.

Japanese auto giant Toyota said its domestic production would return to about 90 percent of pre-quake levels in June.

The World Bank will provide loan and four credits, totalling USD620 million, for development in Vietnam.

The retail sales value of goods and services increased by only 0.68 percent to VND156 trillion (USD7.4 billion) during May.

Increased domestic demand for gasoline would cause fuel imports to soar during the next few months, according to Petrolimex.

With tightened bank lending for real estate, large numbers of buyers are selling to cut losses.

The agricultural sector plans to raise the added value of its products by at least 20 percent in the next decade.

A audit of Greek finances to access a badly-needed slice of EU-IMF funds will conclude this week, the Greek finance minister said.

Japan's unemployment rate rose to 4.7 percent in April, up 0.1 percentage points from a month earlier, the government said.

Vietnam consumes billions of litres of beer each year and the figure is increasing.

France's Christine Lagarde sought to rally support for her bid to lead the International Monetary Fund, promising on a visit to Brazil.

Many commercial banks say that all their efforts to reduce lending to non-manufacturing sectors are unlikely to meet the schedule.

In HCM City, unlicensed street markets thrive, while licensed sellers see a continuing drop in customers.

Lorijon Bacchi, director of the Indochina region of the payment card network Visa, said Vietnam has had the strongest growth of all Visa markets.

Banks are forced to hammer out a way out for their gold deposit assets after commercial banks’ ban on gold lending.