Many sweet products from Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand or Malaysia have been shipped to sell in Vietnam as the tax on confectionery imported from Southeast Asia is now zero percent.

Vietnam’s GDP growth is forecast to edge up to 6.1 percent in 2015 and 6.2 percent in 2016, with foreign direct investment an important driver, the Asian Development Bank has said in a new report.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung on Wednesday urged the customs sector to focus on improving management capacity and reforming administrative procedures.

HCM City  (Biz Hub) — Viet Nam, which has kept its foreign direct investment policies unchanged for a long time, needs to change them now if it wants to attract more inflows, an expert has said.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) once again tops the list of the 500 largest enterprises in 2013.

GDP growth in Vietnam will rise modestly to 5.5% by 2015, with macroeconomic stability largely restored, according to the World Bank’s latest report.

Foreign investors poured a total of 12.63 billion USD in Vietnam during the past eight months, an increase of 19.5 percent over the same period last year. 

On August 22nd, Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung had a meeting with Mr. Sanjay Kalra - Resident Representative of International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Vietnam to exchange macroeconomic situation and policy assessment, recommendations for Vietnam's economy in the annual report of the IMF.

(VOV) - In the first half of this year, Vietnam attracted nearly US$10.5 billion in foreign direct investment up 15.9% from a year earlier. According to the Foreign Investment Department of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, changes can be seen in newly registered capital, disbursement, and capital structuring.