Hanoi (VNA) - Municipal authorities have urged businesses to make more
recommendations on how they could help firms reeling from the impacts of the economic slowdown.

Hanoi (VNA/VNS) - The VN-Index on March 9 increased 2.15 points to close at 247.85, a rise of 0.88 percent, as a couple of reports noted an easing in the pace at which foreign investors have been u

Kien Giang (VNA/VNS) - Rice farmers in the Cuu Long ( Mekong ) Delta are harvesting
a bumper winter-spring crop and earning high profits as production costs fall,

Hanoi (VNA) - With total investment of 87.7 million USD in Laos , Vietnam
was the leader in foreign investment in the country for the first quarter of the

Hanoi (VNA) - Commercial banks in Vietnam , by March 6, had provided soft
loans totalling 113.7 trillion VND (6.5 billion USD) to domestic businesses under

Hanoi (VNA) - As of June 19, Thailand , Laos and Vietnam will jointly
open highway routes for trucks to facilitate lower-cost freight transportation,

Hanoi (VNA) - Construction on the on-ramps for the Nhat Tan suspension bridge
spanning the Red River began in the outskirts of Hanoi 's Dong Anh district
on March 7.

Hanoi (VNA/VNS) - The State-owned Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation
(Petrolimex) continued to lower its retail price for kerosone, cutting it by 500 VND

Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said strengthening the relations between the Vietnamese and Cambodian ministries of planning is necessary to promote the two countries' economic and t

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam and Cambodia have committed to urthering cooperation in planning and investment in 2009.