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Increased exports have been adding to the risk of exhausted natural resources and environmental pollution, an official said.

Nokia said its competitor Apple had agreed to pay royalties for using Nokia technology in its devices, ending all of their ongoing patent disputes.

Toyota Vietnam gave a 3-month suspension to an engineer who exposed the company’s technical faults, but they insist it was unrelated.

The increasing price of goods across the board has caused Vietnamese consumers to switch to locally made products.

Total investment capital for Vietnam's human resource development is estimated at USD102.6 billion for the 2011-2020 period.

Despite the impact of recent disasters, Japan will maintain its ODA pledges for Vietnam in the coming time, an official said.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has forecast that the country’s rice exports could reach 7.1 to 7.4 million tonnes this year.

Almost three-quarters of Japanese respondents to a newspaper poll favour a gradual phase-out of nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima atomic accident .

A shipment of over 9,575 tonnes of coal from Indonesia arrived at the Cai Lai seaport in the southern province of Dong Nai on June 13.

Rivals to lead the IMF lit into French favorite Christine Lagarde, with one suggesting she had conflicting interests.

The IMF's executive board meets Monday as the campaign to find a new chief reels from the unexpected twist of a dark horse candidacy.

Vietnamese authorities have decided not to cut petroleum prices but have hiked import taxes on some products.

Toyota Vietnam has suspended for three months an engineer who exposed its technical faults in manufacturing.

Only 1% of Vietnamese companies use social networking sites as a marketing tool, while the world average is 54%.

State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Giau required commercial banks to maintain credit growth at 20 percent or less this year.

National monetary policy was on the right track, with credit growth falling to 6.92 percent in the first five months of the year, said an official.

Vietnam’s retail market ranking has slipped from first place in 2008 to 23rd place among 30 surveyed emerging economics in 2011,said a survey.

Two candidates to head the IMF backed out of the race, denouncing Europe's bid to hold on to the job.

An investment association recently proposed that the Vietnamese government should put a special fee on imported cars and motorbikes.