(VOV) - Vietnam has made great inroads into the global dairy industry and currently exports dairy products to over 29 foreign markets, one of the few nations in Asia exporting dairy products. 

(VOV) -Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) for September rose 0.51% against August, according to the Municipal Statistics Office.

(VOV) -Bac Giang provincial authorities have approved the issuance of investment certificates for a cumulative total of 174 projects with foreign direct investment (FDI) exceeding US$1,840 million.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s exports to Laos surged 2.97% on-year to US$287.39 million for the first eight months of this year, according to Vietnam Customs Statistics.

Commercial banks are eyeing mobile banking as a potential way to harness growing demand for online transactions, industry experts say.

The Vietnamese retail market has huge potential, but local investors are frittering away the advantage by failing to develop modern retail, a senior industry-trade official has warned. 

(VOV) Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh recently returned from a visit to the US, where he headed up a Vietnamese delegation lobbying for an early signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement.

(VOV) -Vietnam’s trade deficit was estimated at US$955 million for the first half of September, reducing the country’s total export surplus since the beginning of the year down to US$2 billion, according to customs statistics.

(VOV) -Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the northern border province of Lao Cai to fully tap its huge potential, especially in tourism and cross-border trade in Sapa.

(VOV) - Vietnam was ranked one of the top four markets for intended investment by US multinational companies in the next 12 months, according to a KPMG survey of US business executives.

(VOV) - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao has suggested that Vietnam step up public private partnerships (PPP) by fine-tuning projects, to stimulate cost-effective investments.

(VOV) - Enhancing corporate social responsibility (CSR) to build up consumer trust in line with the vision of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) is vitally important for businesses in international integration.

(VOV) -Vietnam-based property developer Vingroup Joint Stock Co (Vingroup) and Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) have been listed among ASEAN enterprises’ top 100 by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P), a world leading provider of credit ratings.

(VOV) - Over 100 Vietnamese companies attended the 11th China-ASEAN Exposition (CAEXPO) 2014 in Nanning from September 15-18.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued an order imposing anti-dumping tariffs on stainless steel to protect the domestic market and create a level playing field between imported and local products. 

(VOV) - Vietnamese exports to Thailand of Vietnamese tra fish in the first seven months of the year skyrocketed up 40% on-year to US$27.98 million, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). 

(VOV) - In the first nine months of the year, official statistics show Vietnam exports of rice to Russia dipped 12.6% in volume and 5.3% in sales to 485,000 tonnes compared to the corresponding period last year.

Vietnamese American businessman Hoang Kieu has climbed to 628th place in the World's Billionaires list released by American business magazine Forbes as of September 18.

(VOV) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh and his delegation on September 18 worked with leading scholars at Harvard University in Boston (Massachusetts State) as part of their trip to the US from September 15-19.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is expected to provide Vietnam with funding packages worth US$1.37 billion in 2014 and US$1.24 billion in 2015 to support its sustainable growth.

(VOV) - The fifth Asian Development Forum (ADF-5) themed "Challenges and strategies towards sustained growth of Asia" will be held in Hanoi on September 19 by the Ministry of Planning and Investment in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB). 

(VOV) -More than 2000 guests attended an energy efficiency exhibition entitled – Xperience Efficiency (XEE) 2014 – on September 17-18, sponsored by Schneider Electric at the International Convention Centre in Hanoi.

(VOV) - VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Company and TienPhong Commercial Joint Stock Bank on September 18 signed a US$21 million financing agreement in HCM City providing for the purchase of two Airbus A320. 

(VOV) - Germany, with 236 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects valued at US$1.34 billion as of September 1, ranked 22nd among 101 nations and territories investing in Vietnam.

A delegation from the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (VIETTRADE) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade will pay a working visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) on November 8-11 in a bid to seek business opportunities there. 

Vietnamese businesses poured US$849 million into 68 investment projects in 21 countries during the first seven months of this year, the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency reported. 

(VOV) - The Philippines' National Food Authority (NFA) has decided to import 200,000 tonnes of 25% broken rice from Vietnam under a signed agreement between the two governments.

(VOV) - A recent survey conducted by the leading insurance agency Nissay of 4,285 companies from across Japan indicates they are sanguine on Asia and Vietnam in particular, with its economic prominence on the uptick.

(VOV) -Thirty travel operators, hoteliers, and Vietnam Airlines managers are attending an international tourism fair Otdykh Leisure 2014 which opened Russia’s Moscow capital on September 16.

(VOV) - A senior ExxonMobil executive has pledged to boost cooperation in the oil & gas industry with Vietnam, a potential market in Southeast Asia.