VOV.VN - The Vietnam government has set a lofty target for exports of the electronics segment of the economy for both the foreign and domestic sectors operating within the country’s borders to reach US$40 billion by 2017.

 The World Bank (WB) will reduce concessional credits for Vietnam within the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) in the fiscal period of 2017-2022.

China (including Hong Kong) is more likely to become Vietnam’s largest tra fish market in 2017, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Vietnam exported 353,000 tonnes of rice for US$156 million, raising total exported volume in January-November to 4.54 million tonnes with a value of US$2 billion, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The consumer price index (CPI) in the past 11 months of 2016 posted a year-on-year increase of 2.47%, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on November 28.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PVN) has put into operation the analysis laboratory centre and the office of the Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) in the Saigon Hi-tech Park in Ho Chi Minh city.

Agro-forestry-fishery exports were estimated to reach US$2.69 billion in November, pushing total figure so far this year to US$29.1 billion, a rise of 5.9% over the same period last year.

Work on a solar energy pin project started in the Quang Chau industrial park in Viet Yen district, northern Bac Giang province, according to the Kinh Bac City Development Company (KBC).

Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has seen good growth opportunities in Vietnam in the years to come as this ASEAN market is expanding fast, especially in air passenger traffic demand.

There is no need to worry about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact which U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said would be scrapped after he takes office, as Vietnamese enterprises can benefit from other free trade agreements.