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New survey shows that Vietnam is one of the friendliest countries in the world for expatriates to live and work in.

Serica Energy is selling some of its assets in Indonesia and all of them in Vietnam to Singapore-based KrisEnergy for $98.6m (£60.1m) in cash.

Chunghwa Telecom is actively endeavoring to extend its reach into the fledgling Southeast Asian market, reported the Chinese-language Economic Daily News.

Vietnam's freight transportation went up 4.1 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of this year to 583.4 million tons.

ANZ has opened its tenth branch in Vietnam and completed its acquisition of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Vietnam businesses.

Yet I met no shortage of investors willing to gamble on Vietnam and that is a good thing.

The future of the Doosan Group as a global conglomerate depends on China and Vietnam, according to Chairman Park Yong-hyun.

SOUTHEAST Asia will invest $32 billion in transport infrastructure over five years from 2010 to 2014, a KPMG study has projected.

Steel price has been increasing because the price of steel billet and imported steel jumped in comparison with early last month.

Saigon Asset Management plans to launch a new offshore hedge fund with Vietnamese REE Corp.

British retailer, Debenhams, will open its first store in Vietnam in a bid to enhance its international presence.

Vietnam’s foreign-exchange reserves have declined to less than two-and-a-half-months worth of imports, said the IMF.

Vietnam had taken a series of small steps starting in October to begin to tighten monetary policy.

Vietnamese rice export prices jumped up to 10% on the prospect the country's top grain exporter may win about half of the volume sought in a tender by the Philippines.

Vietnam shares ended down 3.1% Wednesday amid continued concerns over the government's decision to end its subsidised lending program.

Strategic investment of value add distributor expands ASEAN coverage.

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng hoped that Japanese economists will further share their experience with Vietnamese competent agencies in outlining economic development policies, especially in such fields as finance, banking and monetary.

A bid to sell 150,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines won by the Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) may help raise world rice prices, local media reports.

Tanzanian based A to Z Textile Mill will send its employees to Vietnam for intensive training in textile manufacturing.