Preparations for the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia 2015, slated to be held on April 19-21 in Jakarta , are 90% complete, according to Indonesian Trade Minister Rachmat Gobel. 

(VOV) - Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has authorised the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to grant a business licence to the Globaltrans Air JSC in order to operate as a general aviation service provider.

(VOV) - Vietnam-Cuba bilateral trade jumped more than 45% to US$207.5 million last year, including US$206 million from Vietnam exports and US$1 million from its imports.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Poland and the Poland Embassy in Vietnam on April 14 co-organised a workshop in Hanoi, discussing investment opportunities for the businesses of both nations. 

Vietnam is betting on the development of casinos to boost the country’s tourism growth and make it more competitive against other tourism destinations such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Macau. 

(VOV) - Businesses should not avoid anti-dumping lawsuits and make preparations to get involved in administrative reviews by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to ensure that they have not dumped their products in the market. 

Foreign banks, especially those from Asia, have been strengthening their investment in Vietnam in recent years.

The Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) sealed credit contracts to provide roughly US$147 million for the construction of two infrastructure projects in Laos.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered that drastic measures be taken to complete the privatisation of 289 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) within this year, stressing that benefits of the State, company employees, and shareholders must be ensured.

(VOV) - The National Assembly’s Economic Committee (NAEC) has announced that the 2015 Spring Economic Forum will take place April 21-22 in central Nghe An province's Vinh City. 

Experts and representatives from trade villages gathered at a recent forum in Hanoi to seek ways to enhance trade village competitiveness in the lead up to the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community, which is slated for the end of this year.

It is urgent to assist domestic businesses to become a strong pillar of the Vietnamese economy, an economy whose growth has been largely fostered by foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years, experts said.

(VOV) -Six Vietnamese businesses are participating in the world’s biggest industrial trade fair knows as Hannover Messe 2015 in Hanover, Germany along with 6,500 other exhibitors from 70 countries and territories across the globe.

The World Bank cut its 2015 growth forecasts for developing East Asia and China, and warned of "significant" risks from global uncertainties including the potential impact from a strengthening dollar and higher US interest rates.

(VOV) - The border gate in An Giang province has been lively, boisterous, colourful, smelly and gritty with an electric atmosphere during the early months of the year, full of Cambodian traders travelling to Vietnam to buy fish, shrimp and prawns.

(VOV) - Vietnam successfully defended trade safeguard lawsuits related to exported products last year, according to a recent annual report of the Vietnam Competition Authority under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

An Iranian delegation of entrepreneurs is expected to join the Vietnam Expo 2015, to be held from April 15-18 in Hanoi, to seek investment opportunities in Vietnam. 

China’s investment in Vietnam has dramatically increased both in terms of value and project number, but the quality of these projects needs to be taken into account, and to ensure they contribute to reducing the bilateral trade gap.

Many banks cannot collect debts from shipping firms, which have been taking losses for several years.

SC VivoCity, the one-stop family lifestyle destination mall managed by Saigon Co.op and Mapletree, will open its doors to visitors on April 19, 2015.

The increasing signs of an economic recovery have bolstered investor confidence and laid the foundation for more foreign investors to dip their toes in Vietnam’s stock market in the coming time, experts claim.

A General Statistics Office survey of over 3,245 local and foreign processing and manufacturing enterprises nationwide in this year’s first quarter has revealed promising data.

HCM City hopes to increase cooperation with Japan in agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors, especially hi-tech agriculture, according to Le Thanh Hai, Secretary of the city’s Party Committee. 

Vietnam's vehicle manufacturers sold a combined 16,399 units in March, up 62% from the same period last year, according to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA). 

Construction on the Nongtha Complex funded by the Laos-Viet Bank (LVB) began in the Lao capital city of Vientiane on April 12.

Vietnam has signed seven free trade agreements with multi-lateral, regional and bilateral partners, with hundreds of tariffs on farm produce to be removed by 2018.

Individuals, enterprises and organisations will be allowed to decide the fees for domain name registration, as the government is set to only charge fees for the use of domain names.

The deposit growth rate is currently slower than that of credit growth; however, savings in banks are still considered a good choice due to low inflation.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group or PetroVietnam failed to meet its financial targets in the first quarter of this year.

ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh has called on Japanese businessmen to study possible investments in infrastructure across telecommunications, transportation, electricity, water supply, and environmental sanitation, to facilitate broader ASEAN connectivity.