The Australian Government has provided VND545 million (US$25,817) for three small-scale projects in the central provinces of Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Khanh Hoa.

(VOV) - Vietnam should restructure its industrial sector, with priority given to key industries, Republic of Korean experts suggested at a workshop in Hanoi on September 30.

(VOV) - As of September 20, Vietnam had licensed 872 new investment projects with total registered capitalization of US$9.3 billion, up 34.9% from a year earlier. 

(VOV) -Two-way trade turnover between Vietnam and India reached more than US$3.5 billion in the first eight months of this year, up 40.2% compared to the same period last year.

(VOV) - Eighteen Vietnamese businesses will make a fact-finding tour of Alger City, Algeria, from October 18-24, according to the Africa, West Asia and South Asia Department.

(VOV) -Vietnam earned US$1.19 billion from exporting 188,000 tonnes of cashew nuts in the first nine months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 9.3% in value and 16.5% in volume.

Supermarket chain Saigon Co.op has received the Consumer Service Excellence Award by the Federation of Asia-Pacific Retailers Associations (FAPRA).

(VOV) - The Bank for Investment & Development of Vietnam (BIDV), and Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam Insurance Corporation (BIC) and MetLife Inc. have signed a contract to establish a life insurance joint venture (JV) in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on ministries, sectors and localities to continue strongly applying measures to stabilise the macro-economy and rein in inflation. 

(VOV) - Mobile phone and spare parts are likely to top the list of Vietnamese export items for the first time, with their export earnings expected to hit US$20 billion in 2013.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has proposed rescheduling tax debt repayment terms for ailing businesses which would be able to commit to paying tax in the future. 

(VOV) - Vietnam has been elected to the Programme and Budget Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for 2013-15 at its ongoing 51st General Assembly in Switzerland.

Businesses in Can Tho city will greatly benefit if they are able to penetrate the Dubai market, a workshop was told in the city on September 27.

(VOV) - Vietnam is accelerating a comprehensive institutional reform to facilitate foreign operations in the country.

(VOV) - The UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Lord Puttnam of Queensgate will visit Vietnam next week to ramp up UK business in Vietnam.

(VOV) -Two hundred booths and display stalls representing 150 domestic and foreign enterprises joined Hanoi’s International Food Supplements Festival, underway from September 27-29.

(VOV) - A September 27 report in the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai has declared Vietnam’s software outsourcing market remains attractive to Japanese businesses, noting its human resource costs are only 60 percent of those in China and India.

(VOV) -Vietnam exported 1.03 million tonnes of coffee worth an estimated U$2.21 billion after nine months—down 23.1 percent in volume and 22.5 percent in value over same period’s last year.

The Vietnam Supply Chain Congress 2013, themed “Source. Make. Deliver”, will be organised by the Vietnam Supply Chain Community in Ho Chi Minh City from October 2-4.

Strengthening macroeconomic stability through monetary and fiscal policies and speeding up the economic restructuring topped the agenda of the ongoing 2013 Autumn Economic Forum in the central province of ThuaThien-Hue. 

The country's index of industrial production (IIP) saw a year-on-year increase of 5.4 percent in the first nine months of the year, signalling a promising sign in the economic slowdown.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s seafood exports in September are estimated at US$558 million, raising the nine-month figure to US$4.61 billion, up 3% against the same period last year.

(VOV) - Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Trade Representative Michael Froman have expressed the US’s desire to increase multifaceted cooperation with Vietnam, primarily in economics, trade and investment.

A teleconference to facilitate Vietnamese businesses’ trade promotion in India was held on September 26 both in Hanoi and New Dehli. 

Ho Chi Minh City will give top priority to removing difficulties for production, supporting the market and solving bad debts in the remaining months of this year, a municipal leader has said. 

The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has lowered its rice export target for 2013 to between 7 - 7.2 million tonnes from 7.5 million with earnings of US$3 billion due to low export volume and falling prices. 

Many small Vietnamese businesses have developed into companies that are ready to spread their wings to the rest of Asia, said Thng Tien Tat, Executive Director of Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) in Vietnam. 

(VOV) - For the first time in several decades, the State Bank of Vietnam’s exchange rate management has successfully prevented what it terms the ‘dollarisation’ of the national economy.

(VOV) - The recently established strategic partnership between Vietnam and Thailand offers long-term prospects for stronger bilateral economic cooperation.

(VOV) - Budget Thai airline Nok Air has announced plans to expand its international flight routes, foreshadowing new destinations including Vietnam.