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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.

Two-thirds of Vietnam’s 90 golf course projects are also involved in real estate and tourism resorts, according to a new report.

The Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, Nguyen Van Giau, denied rumour on adjusting interest rates or putting caps on lending rates.

Power shortages have become one of the biggest barriers for investors doing business in Vietnam, experts said.

Citibank Vietnam has signed a contract to provide USD200 million in funding for the development of Vietnam’s power transmission network.

The trade deficit increased to USD6.6 billion in the first five months this year compared to USD5.4 billion in the same period of last year.

The Ministry of Finance is querying other agencies about the possibility of imposing new taxes on vacant homes.

Vietnam's inflation may touch 20 percent in coming months, according to a recent HSBC report.

Foreign direct investment disbursements in Vietnam are forecast to reach $4.52 billion in the first five months of this year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Vietnam faces a gigantic building steel surplus when five new high-capacity plants become operational late this year.

Leaders of the world's richest nations begin a summit in France dominated by the Arab Spring, the economy, and Japan's nuclear disaster.

JICA has signed an agreement to provide technical assistance for Vietnam to operate and maintain expressway.