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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.

Vietnam’s first oil refinery, Dung Quat, will suspend its operations for 2 months for the first planned maintenance period.

The eurozone is preparing for the worst in the Greek debt crisis and will cope even if Athens defaults on its loans, German Finance Minister said.

Many state-owned giant corporations still carried out their initial public offering as scheduled this year, but most of them went public quietly.

Vietnam is considering an increase in the coal export tax to 20%, from the current 15%; according to the Ministry of Finance.

Vietnam’s annual biggest fisheries exhibition will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28-30 with the participation of over 190 exhibitors.

IAEA is in favour of strengthening checks on nuclear power plants, but how this should be financed was still up in the air, a UN official said.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was negotiating a new bailout worth some 110 billion euros.

The Electricity of Vietnam Group will invest USD39 billion in building another 95 power plants in the next 10 years.

US technology giant Apple said Friday it has filed a lawsuit in South Korea claiming Samsung Electronics copied its products.

The consumer price index in June soared 1.09 percent against last month, according to the General Statistics Office.

Europe pledged Thursday to fix a new bailout for Greece by early July, provided Athens rallies parliamentary support for sweeping new cuts.

The recent Thai rice price hike may prompt importing countries to turn to Vietnam for the food staple, according to industry sources.

The United States and other nations will release and sell 60 million barrels of crude from emergency stocks.

AirAsia ordered a record 200 medium-haul Airbus A320neo passenger jets, a deal with a catalogue price of $18.2 billion, both firms said.

Small hydroelectric plants play an important role in devel-oping the socio-economy at a local level, but they are also a danger to residents.

HCM City government has fined a company that sells products on TV infomercials for selling fake or illegally-imported products.