Hanoi (VNA) - Both the Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City stock exchanges increased on August 18 as the expanded trading bands began working.

symposiums on IT application in banking activities and security trend onDec. 1-3.

HCM City (VNA) - ASEAN member-countries have invested nearly 17.5 billion USD in Vietnam this year, accounting for 40 percent of the total foreign direct investment in the period.

Hanoi (VNA) - The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) has been once again selected as Vietnam 's best supplier of foreign exchange services in 2008 by Hong Kong 's Asiamoney

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a cooperation agreement on investment, finance, trade and labour during a recent visit to the UAE by a Vietnamese governm

Hanoi (VNA) - A training course on political theory for officials of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party opened at the Ho Chi Minh National Politics and Administration Academy in Hanoi

Hanoi (VNA) - Japanese and global news sources have reported suspicions that Japan's Pacific Consultants International (PCI) bribed Vietnamese officials to win the East-West Avenue contract in HCM

Dac Lac (VNA) - The Central Highlands is expected to become the country's largest hydro-power centre by 2010, as it will have hydro-power plants of a combined capacity of 5,000 MW, equal to one thi

Hanoi (VNA) - The central province of Binh Dinh has zoned off and built 10 resettlement areas worth over 30 billion VND for people living along the coast to shelter from floods, storms and f

Hanoi (VNA) - Four centrally-run cities and six provinces will be selected to experimentally implement a project under which they will not organise the people's council at district and ward lev