(VOV) -Vietnamese exports from agriculture, forestry and fishery in the first eight months of the year jumped 11.9% on-year to US$20.22 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

(VOV) -Central Quang Nam province staged a seminar in Tokyo on August 25 to introduce its investment potential to the Japanese business community.

Vietnam’s VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Company (VietJet Air) has contributed US$16.6 million to the state budget over the past seven months of this year. 

(VOV) - Vietnamese exports to the Republic of Korea (RoK) rose 2.4% to US$3.66 billion in the first seven months of this year, according to Vietnam's General Department of Customs. 

(VOV) - McDonald’s, the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, plans to open its third restaurant in Phu Lam area, west of HCM City, following the successful operation of the other two in the city. 

A Vietnamese auto company's plan to assemble and sell the world's cheapest car in Vietnam has been met with skepticism as the market seems lukewarm to cheap cars.

Experts have urged the government to set up a centre for credit services for struggling small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The national consumer price index (CPI) this month increased by 0.22 per cent over that of last month and 1.84 per cent over that of the end of last year.

(VOV) - Microsoft, which took over Nokia in a US$7.2 million deal last April, is closing all its plants in Hungary, contracting production in China and Mexico, and shifting the bulk of phone manufacturing to Bac Ninh province.

(VOV) - A Bank for Industry and Trade of Vietnam (VietinBank) delegation led by its Director General Le Duc Tho recently paid a working visit to Japan, hoping to attract investment in the Vietnamese agriculture industry.

(VOV) - Over 150 international economic experts and managers shared experience in sharpening competitive edge and boosting international economic cooperation at a seminar in Hanoi on August 23.

(VOV) - Frontier-market equity funds from Sweden and South Africa are pouring millions of US dollars into the Vietnam stock market, lured by Southeast Asia’s improving economic outlook for growth.

The Microsoft Information Technology (IT) Academy, the first ever international standard IT training centre in the central and Central Highlands regions, made its debut in ceremonies held on August 23.

(VOV) -LG Electronics recently announced it is placing its new 100,000 square metre factory in Trang Due Industrial Park in the northern city of Haiphong into operation in October.

(VOV) -Central Power Corporation (EVN CPC) on August 23 received underwater cables serving a project to provide power from national grid for Ly Son island in central Quang Ngai province.

(VOV) - There are high expectations the new bidding mechanism will make great strides in the difficult process of assessing and selecting high quality contractors. 

(VOV) - US multinational companies – Boeing, Microsoft and Carix – told Vietnam Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong, who is on a Washington State visit  from August 19-20,  they hope to expand cooperative ties with Vietnam.

(VOV) - Rajah & Tann LCT Lawyers – Vietnam and seven foreign law firms have merged to form Rajah & Tann Asia, the largest law firm in South East Asia (SEA). 

(VOV) - Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province on August 21 opened its representative office in Mittelsachsen county of Sachsen state and signed a number of cooperation deals over 2014-20 with this German county. 

(VOV) -Representatives of more than 250 Korean businesses operating in Vietnam were updated on the country’s new tax and customs policies at a dialogue with the Ministry of Finance in Hanoi on August 22.

(VOV) - More than 100 businesses are showcasing their Made-in-Vietnam products at a fair in Hanoi to promote the campaign “Vietnamese prioritise using Vietnamese goods.”

(VOV) -Vietnam needs to accelerate customs reform to facilitate import-export activities and improve the competitive capacity of businesses and the national economy as a whole, an international seminar heard in HCM City on August 22.

The consumer price index (CPI) in the country's two largest cities continued to rise in August, according to the statistics departments of Hanoi and HCM City. 

The southern province of Dong Nai is among the country’s top five leading localities in export with its Jan-August turnover estimated at over US$8.1 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14.5%.

(VOV) -Japanese Idemitsu Kosan company on August 21 announced that it has struck oil at its fourth oil-well at plot 05-1b and 05-1c offshore southern Vietnam.

The HCM City authorities will readily support overseas-based Vietnamese enterprises to do business in the city, representatives of the state offices said at a meeting on August 21.

Vietnam's export turnover rose sharply last year and in the first half of 2014, but challenges in legal and administrative procedures and other risks remain for enterprises.

The 14th Ho Chi Minh City-International Hospital, Medical and Pharmaceutical Exhibition kicked off on August 21, drawing over 250 businesses both at home and abroad.

(VOV) -The Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNAF) in coordination with the World Widelife Fund (WWF) and People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) launched “Common Access to the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) Process in Laos and Vietnam” project in Hanoi on August 21.

(VOV) -Sri Lanka wants to import 15,000 tonnes of rice from Vietnam and hopes that Vietnamese partners can meet its demand.