Vietnam FPT Software and Agrex of Japan signed a memorandum of understanding on March 12 to establish the first joint venture of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) in Southeast Asia.

Economic activity in Vietnam is likely to pick up this year and in 2014, auditing firm Ernst & Young predicts in its forecast about rapid-growth markets.

While inflation control measures focus on price management, especially in the first months of the year, prices of essential commodities should be adjusted with caution, the National Financial Advisory Committee suggested.

Over 200 athletes from the US, France, England, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Japan are scheduled to race in the Laguna Lang Co Triathlon on April 14, the organizing committee has said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to trade gold bars in an effort to stabilise the local gold market and stock gold bullion for the State foreign exchange reserve.

Maryvonne Le Dizes, who wields the baton for the France-based Ensemble InterContemporain Symphony, will conduct a concert at the HCM City Opera House on March 9.

Orders for Vietnam Tra fish from European Union (EU) countries are gradually increasing after a long gloomy period, said the General Secretary of the Vietnam Association for Seafood Exporters and Producers.

Cashew businesses expect to export 220,000 tonnes this year, equivalent to 2011’s figure, according to the Vietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas).

Two Vietnamese circus artists from the HCM City Circus Federation won a silver medal at the four-day Figueres International Circus Festival that concluded in Spain on February 26.

Vietnam will be in Group A of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U16 Championship which is scheduled to take place in Myanmar in August 20, after the AFF draw on February 25.