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Realty firm VietRees expects mid-range apartments to remain a safe investment channel in Vietnam next year.

WWF has admitted that tra pangasius was unfairly placed on its consumer red list, pledging to remove it immediately.

The Vietnam Fisheries Association requested the WWF to apologise for putting tra pangasius onto its consumer red list.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group will hold the inauguration ceremony of Dung Quat Oil Refinery at 8am on December 24.

China said it regretted the World Trade Organisation's rejection of its complaint against punitive US tariffs on Chinese tyres and would appeal "at an appropriate time".

Trade costs have remained the largest barrier for least developed countries and the World Bank gathered in Geneva to discuss strategies to address this.

Hanoi’s state agencies and companies are now being forbidden from buying imported cars.

Vietnam’s rice export revenue this year is estimated to set a record of over US$3 billion, said Vietnam Food Association chairperson Truong Thanh Phong.

Taiwan display maker Wintek Corp is in talks with some industrial parks in Vietnam to build a display module plant there, a source told Reuters.

The New World Alliance said Monday it will launch its first direct Vietnam-North Europe service.

The Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Association in France made its debut at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Paris on December 11.

A JGC Corp.-led group that includes Chiyoda Corp. and Technip SA won exclusive negotiating rights for a contract to build a refinery in Vietnam, the Nikkei newspaper reported.

A senior expert from the Vietnam Gold Traders Association has said the country should establish a national gold exchange.

WWF Vietnam has agreed to temporarily remove tra fish from their 2010 consumer red list guides.

Singaporean firms have to date invested USD3.2 billion in 104 projects in the city of Hanoi.

Yearning for a gadget that was bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop made tablet computing a defining trend for 2010.

New measurements have been approved for land prices in Hanoi for 2011 and some have said they are not fair.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance has issued a circular on lowering auto import tariffs from January 1, 2011.

A South Korean company has won a 1.2-billion-dollar contract to build a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam, one of the firms involved in the deal said.