Ho Chi Minh City will increase registration fees for new private cars smaller than 10 seats from September 1 by 5.5 times from the current VND2 million (US$95.2).

The most difficult procedures in insect export is asking for the certificate of quality, size and the certificate of origin for insects.

Thai businesses have been quietly, step by step, conquering the Vietnamese market using a methodical and reasonable strategy. Vietnamese businesses cannot do anything but just watch as Thai products penetrate the home market.

Vietnam spent a total of US$3.4 billion for importing cars and spare parts within the first seven months this year, marking a considerable increase against the same period last year.

Construction of the Panko Tam Thang textile-garment plant and Ducksan Vina garment accessory plant commenced on July 30 at the Tam Thang industrial park in Tam Ky city, the central province of Quang Nam.

The agriculture and rural development sector would promote restructuring of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and withdrawal of capital from non-core business in the second half of this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The scale of Vietnamese businesses have decreased with the average registered capital of a newly-established firm till July this year being VND6.2 billion (US$284,400), reducing 0.2 per cent over the same period last year.

The country's foreign exchange reserves excluding gold have been increasing continuously, reaching US$37 billion by the end of July, Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Van Binh said.

A full picture of the Kazakhstani market and its business opportunities was unveiled at a forum held in Hanoi on July 30. 

JFE Steel, Japan's second-biggest steelmaker, has announced it will invest US$220 million in a steel work plant being constructed by the Formosa Plastics Group (China) in the central province of Ha Tinh. 

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has vowed to address issues within the Batam, Bintan and Karimun free trade zone with Singapore. 

The Animal Livestock Associations in the Southeast region and Dong Nai province signed petitions on July 28 for an anti-dumping investigation into chicken imported from the US to save domestic poultry farmers from losses.

(VOV) -The international tourism and investment trade fair, the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) 2015, opened in central city of Danang on July 30.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has unveiled that it is tearing down tariff barriers on imports from other ASEAN member countries as part of the formation of the world's seventh largest free-trade market.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has given the nod for the first phase of the “Urban Water Supply and Wastewater” project to receive an additional US$20 million loan from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank (WB).

Viettel Tanzania has helped Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) win the award for the Best Investment Project 2014 in East, Central and West Africa Region, held in Dubai.

(VOV) - Japan Seven & I Holdings Group will open a chain of 7-Eleven convenience stores in Vietnam.

A food processing and beverage factory invested by an enterprise from the Republic of Korea (RoK) will start operations in the third quarter of 2016 in Yen Phong Industrial Park in northern Bac Ninh province.

The industrial production index in July grew by 11.3% over the same period last year, contributing to a year-on-year increase of 9.9% in the first seven months of this year, the General Statistics Office reported on July 29.

E-Mart, the Republic of Korea’s largest retailer, will officially open the doors to its first supermarket in Vietnam this December.

Sandeep Mahajan, lead economist of the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam, talked about Vietnam’s public debt in an interview with a reporter from The Saigon Times Daily. 

Life insurance giant Prudential Vietnam yesterday officially sealed a deal with the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for a VND3.2 trillion (GBP 100 million) long-term investment of 20-year government bonds (G-Bond) in the presence of UK Prime Ministers David Cameron and his Vietnamese colleague Nguyen Tan Dung.

The Government Inspectorate of Vietnam released a UNDP-supported report on July 29, detailing why corrupt asset recovery is the least effective anti-corruption programme in the country.

South Africa has always prioritised trade, investment and co-operation with Vietnam, and this year, it will offer even more investment opportunities for businesses from Vietnam and Da Nang.

Gold opportunities as well as simultaneous tremendous challenges will be brought to Vietnamese businesses when free trade agreements (FTAs), including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement come into effect, heard a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July 29.

The economic situation of the first half of 2015 and relevant growth measures were discussed during a conference hosted by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in Hanoi on July 29. 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is planning to invest in advanced technologies to enhance the value of the coffee sector through improving productivity and product quality.

Following breakthroughs in socio-economic development in recent years, many major real estate projects have been launched in Vietnam’s northern port city of Haiphong.

(VOV) - Hundreds of representatives from 85 businesses across the nation gathered in Da Nang on July 29 at a seminar discussing the importance of promoting a national brand in the context of regional and global integration. 

(VOV) - The Peru Embassy in Hanoi on July 29 held a seminar spotlighting opportunities for Vietnam’s agri-businesses in trade of two super foods – maca and quinoa – which have been cultivated in the Andes Mountains for hundreds of years.