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Domestic tours are now more expensive than some foreign ones as local airfares have been increased by 20%.

Up to 47% of cosmetics sold in Hanoi are fake, according to a survey by Nielsen Vietnam and a taskforce on intellectual property.

Popular US restaurant brand names such as Pollo Tropica, Round Table Pizza, and Applebee's are eying franchise openings in Vietnam.

Vietnam has made little use of solar power development potential due to a lack of a detailed roadmap and incentive policies.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment proposed a moratorium on the establishment of new state-owned economic groups.

EU will prioritise boosting economic and trade relations with Vietnam, especially speeding up negotiations on its Free Trade Area.

Vietnamese tuna has been exported to 87 markets, said Vietnam Association of Seafood Export and Processing.

A court has ordered musician Ha Dung not to leave the country, due to his role in the bankrupted Indochina Airlines.

A survey by Yahoo showed that Vietnam tops Southeast Asian countries in spending on mobile Internet services.

Experts from the eurozone, the ECB and the IMF resume talks with Greece on a second lifeline accorded to debt-ravaged Athens.

International fast food chains are penetrating Vietnam, opening branches nationwide and dominating the market.

New regulations have been issued with an aim to keep a tighter control over the imports-exports and goods circulation, but caused big losses to businesses.

Global credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the credit rating of Vietcombank, Techcombank, and BIDV.

Vietnam welcomes investors in the mining industry and is completing legislation on minerals that is in line with other countries in the world, says Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai.

State-owned corporations and groups in Vietnam continue paying high salaries, despite incurring losses.

Vietnam aims to restructure and renew more than 1,300 state-owned enterprises in the next five years, of which 573 will be equitised.

A bid to change the EU treaty to resolve the eurozone debt crisis foundered at a crunch summit on a British refusal to sign up.

The Prime Minister issued a circular on managing the real estate market, which focuses on the measures to be taken to increase liquidity.

Divided EU leaders battled over treaty change Friday at a crunch summit on the debt crisis undermined by an ECB warning that there will be no big boost in rescue funding.