HA NOI — Viet Nam wants to foster co-operation with Slovakia in energy and infrastructure, said President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday. He was speaking at a meeting with the visiting Speaker of the National Council of...

DAVOS — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended a plenary session of the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) here yesterday. It was titled "Reshaping Global Governance".

Tensions rose among desperate Haitians awaiting international aid and hunting for missing relatives on Saturday as aid began to trickle in four days after an earthquake that Haitian authorities say killed 200,000 people.

President Barack Obama on Saturday slammed Wall Street's "audacity" for fighting a bailout fee he wants to slap on financial firms and said his Republican opponents had sided with big banks.

Japan Airlines (JAL) has agreed on a tie-up with Delta Air Lines that will mean JAL joins the SkyTeam airline alliance, dropping its membership of the Oneworld alliance, a Japanese newspaper said on Saturday.

HANOI – While economic recovery this year is a certain factor, experts still warned on Thursday of rifer uncertainties in 2010 for Vietnam in the wake of the global recession.

HCMC - Limited supply plus strong demand for retail spaces have driven up rents in HCMC whose retail market has seen rents in prime locations the most expensive compared to other cities in the country, said CB Richard...

The World Bank issued its report
Doing Business 2010 last September, ranking the business climate in 183 economies worldwide. This piece looks at why the issue of taxation was one of the weakest areas for Viet...

HCM CITY — Rubber exporters are expected to incur higher costs under a new regulation that requires all exporters to present original value-added invoices to customs departments in the country.

HA NOI — When the dust settled on Friday on a week of ups and downs on the HCM City Stock Exchange, the VN-Index had lost 15.48 points, or 2.97 per cent, from the previous week, closing at 505.42.

Parkson Viet Nam recently opened the country’s largest shopping mall, the 26,000sq.m Parkson Flemington, in HCM City’s District 11.It is the Malaysian retail chain’s fourth outlet in the city and sixth in the...

Many cities and provinces in the Mekong River Delta have raced to set up industrial clusters without carefully considering their effectiveness, wasting several thousand ha of farmland and jeopardising residents’...