The real estate sector is forecast to remain the most attractive investment channel in 2015 due to the growing demand in the residential, office, and hospitality segments.

The local energy sector is expected to be the next driver for foreign direct investment growth in Vietnam this year.

Early promising signs are fanning hopes for the reiteration in 2016 of last year’s record-breaking level of disbursed foreign direct investment, which stood at US$14.5 billion.

VOV.VN - Rice exports made a breakthrough in January with an estimated volume of 495,000 tons worth US$218 million, up 56.7% in volume and 46% in value against last year’s same period. 

Property prices are expected to increase by five to 10 percent in the year of 2016, especially hot projects that have good infrastructure and ensure construction progress.

Blessed with a long coastline and numerous islands, Vietnam’s beach tourism investment has been growing remarkably over recent years.

Vietnam must act quickly to improving production technologies in all industries to ensure the competitiveness of its goods and services in the international market, a recent seminar heard in HCM City.

Existing and future free trade agreements are expected to promote innovations in the business community to enable firms to compete not only at home, but also on international markets.

Many property developers are moving into provinces rather than try their luck in the fiercely competitive metro markets like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Taxi firms in the capital city are likely to slash fares after domestic petrol prices plunged to a seven-year low on February 18, but any cut would take time to implement. 

The People's Committee of Hanoi has promulgated a decision on the land-use plan in 2016 in the city's downtown Hoan Kiem District. 

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) is planning an expansion in equipment manufacturing, adding to its current three main operations namely infrastructure, mobile network and media services.

The HCM City government has got the Prime Minister’s nod for a plan to call for investment to expand National Highway 22 that runs through the city and Tay Ninh Province and connects to Cambodia under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) form.

Lots of cow farmers in Ho Chi Minh City are struggling after their only partner has put a halt to buying their dairy products, with their predicament worsened by imported milk selling at cheaper prices.

Though experts forecast a rise in lending interest rates in 2016, a central bank official believes it is feasible to keep the rates stable and reducing it slightly this year.

The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vinatex) and non-member Hanoi Industrial Textile JSC have filed a complaint claiming that shipping lines from China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan were ripping them off with an unfair surcharge.

Many real estate companies are offering properties at cheap prices in some hot localities in Ho Chi Minh City's north-western region after the Tet holiday expecting high demand from there.

The five-star FLC Vinh Thinh Resort in northern Vinh Phuc province's Vinh Tuong district will open on March 6.

Since switching to growing mangoes of three colours, farmer Nguyen Hoang Du in the Mekong Delta province is no longer worried about finding a market for them.

 About 86.7 percent of the listed companies on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) made profits in the fourth quarter of last year.

VOV.VN - Imported meats from India, Australia, the US and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are flooding the domestic retail market and can be found in barbeques and kitchens across the nation, reports the Vietnam Husbandry Association (VHA).

Several made-in-China affordable electric cars being advertised on Facebook by Vietnamese sellers have grabbed the attention of local consumers while raising the eyebrows of authorities.

VOV.VN - The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was signed by Vietnam and 11 other Asia-Pacific countries on February 4 in New Zealand after 5 years of negotiations.

VOV.VN - In recent years, Vietnam has been recognized internationally as one of the world’s top 10 software outsourcing countries and recognized by UNESCO as one of four nations producing vaccine to treat Rota virus. 

Businesses recommended the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development improve the investment mechanism in order to attract more investment in agriculture, during a meeting in Hanoi on February 19.

Vietnam will benefit from plenty of opportunities through economic integration and reform, however they can only be realised with suitable policies, said Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) Nguyen Dinh Cung.

VOV.VN - In 2015, the Vietnam trade deficit with China hit an all-time record high of US$32.3 billion and the effect on the nation’s economy has not been beneficial, says the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Directions for the attraction, management and use of foreign sponsors’ official development assistance (ODA) and preferential loans from 2016 to 2020 have been issued.

HCM City is asking for the government's approval to accept a new engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor who would be responsible for moving technical infrastructure for the Metro Line No 2 project.

The Governments of Vietnam and South Africa have set to double bilateral trade value through increasing the sale of staples of their strength.