(VOV) - More than 100 leading Thai businesses are displaying branded products at a trade fair which opened in Hanoi on May 16.

(VOV) -The Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA) is expecting the 9th Vietnam Motorshow, due to take place in HCM City from October 23–27, to attract domestically and internationally respected auto brands. 

(VOV) -The Government has granted a credit stimulus package, amounting to VND30 trillion (nearly US$1.5 billion), to shore up the real estate sector.

(VOV) - The primary goal of the State Bank of Vietnam is to control the domestic gold market to stop price manipulation, Governor Nguyen Van Binh has said.

(VOV) -Market prices are forecast to remain unchanged in May despite the constant downtrend in the prices of essential products such as oil and food.

(VOV) - Construction of a data backup centre for the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) in Quang Trung Software Park got underway on May 3.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s seafood export turnover was estimated at US$464 million, bringing its total earnings in the first four months of the year down to more than US$1.7 billion, 4.6 percent lower than in the same period last year.

(VOV) -Vietnam’s steel industry has seen an import surplus of more than US$2 billion in the first four months of this year.

(VOV) - Vietnam imported 3,518 completely-built-units(CBU) from the Republic of Korea in the first quarter of the year, accounting for more than 50 percent of the country’s CBU car imports.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has reported the export value of farm produce reached approximately US$4.54 billion in April, with agro-forestry and fisheries export turnover estimated at US$2.37 billion.

(VOV) -Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beer maker with famous beer brand name Budweiser, plans to build a brewery in Vietnam next year to tap the large and fast-growing Asia market.

(VOV) -The Vietnam Glass and Ceramics Corporation (Viglacera) plans to seek its counterparts and expand operations in Russia.

Ho Chi Minh City will host a seminar on April 24 for businesses, experts, advertising companies and market research firms to get proper understanding of the local promising mobile market.

(VOV) - The April consumer price index (CPI) for Hanoi decreased 0.15 percent, but still up 5.6 percent against the same period last year, according to a report from the Hanoi Statistics Office.

(VOV) - Although the national economy managed to weather last year’s storm, most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are still threatened by capital shortages and high inventories.

(VOV) - Vietnamese exports to major African markets slowed down in the first quarter of the year due to fierce competition.

(VOV) -Vietnamese goods of different kinds are now on sale in many markets and supermarkets in Myanmar.

(VOV) - Nearly 70 Brazilian businesses attended a recent seminar in Sao Paolo state to seek opportunities for economic, trade and investment cooperation with Vietnam.  

(VOV) -The export volume of Vietnamese tra fish to the Japanese market has risen considerably since March, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP).

(VOV) - Domestic gold has fallen to VND41.60 million per tael, down VND450,000 compared to previous transactions on April 14.

(VOV) - Vietnamese businesses need to the make the best of Hong Kong as a gateway for bringing Vietnamese goods to other markets.

(VOV) -Vietnam’s current tourism promotion program in Dubai has attracted many officials and businesspeople in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

(VOV) -Vietnam will annually ship 300,000 tonnes of rice to Guinea under a contract reached by the two countries recently.

Domestic auto sales hit nearly 8,390 units in March, down 4 percent over the same period last year, but up a significant 97 percent since February, said the Vietnam Automobile Manufacture’s Association (VAMA).

(VOV) - Vietnam has won a contract to supply 187,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines.

The Mekong Delta has seen a sharp jump in the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI), an indicator of economic governance and business environment performance, over the last three years.

The French automaker Peugeot announced on April 8 that it is returning to Vietnam with the creation of a distribution network and local production of its model 408 along with a Vietnamese partner, Thaco Group. 

(VOV) -The European Commission (EC) has officially announced its anti-dumping duties applicable to disposable pocket gas-fueled lighters imported from Vietnam.

The European Union (EU) has lifted the ban on the import of fresh bee honey from Vietnam, according to the European Market Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

(VOV) -Vietnam is expected to earn US$6.5 billion from seafood exports by the end of 2013, representing a year-on-year increase of 5 percent.