Foreigner retailers to move in on Vietnam

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HCM City (VNA) - Foreign retailers like Metro Cash & Carry, Big C, and Parkson are all planning to increase their presence in the promising Vietnamese market.

HCM City GDP growth hits 10.5 percent

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Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) - In the first nine months of 2008, Ho Chi Minh City 's GDP grew at the rate of 10.5 percent, signaling the fulfillment of 11 - 12 percent for the whole year.

Cashew fetches 696 million USD in nine months

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Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam earned 696 million USD from cashew exports in the first nine months this year, 51.5 percent higher than the same period of 2007, thanks to the world's sustained high pric

Nation starts building largest petrochemical complex

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Ba Ria-Vung Tau (VNA) - Construction of a southern petrochemical complex at the Long Son Oil and Gas Industrial Zone in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province began on September 25 in the presence of De

Vinh Long province targets major investments

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HCM City (VNA) - For the past two years, authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long have focused on large-scale investment projects as a driving force for the area's socio-economic growt

Vietnam in top ten of Global Development Fair finals

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Hanoi (VNA) - With four projects selected to progress to the final round of the Global Development Fair 2008, currently being held in Washington DC, the US, Vietnam is among the nine leaders in the

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