Vietnam, Japan ink economic partnership deal

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Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam and Japan signed an economic partnership compact in Tokyo on Dec. 25, laying the ground for a stronger bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation.

Consumer indexes fall beneath predicted level

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Hanoi (VNA) - Consumer price indexes (CPI) dropped for the fourth consecutive month since September, down 0.68 percent from November, reported the Statistics General Department.

Electronic sector grows since joining WTO playground

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Hanoi (VNA) - The electronic sector's exports jumped from 1.4 billion USD in 2005 to 2.1 billion USD in 2007, making it the country's sixth-highest currency earner, according to the Ministry of I

MasterCard Worldwide opens rep. office in HCM City

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HCM City (VNA) - On December 25 US credit company MasterCard Worldwide announced the opening of its representative office in Ho Chi Minh City , making good on its pledge to develop relation

Vietnam lures over 64 billion USD in FDI in 2008

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Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam attracted 1,171 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with a total registered capital of over 60.2 billion USD in 2008, tripling last year's figure, reported the F

Retail sector gears up for Tet shopping

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HCM City (VNA) - Businesses are stockpiling goods ahead of the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, even though experts are predicting lower consumer demand this year due to the economic downturn

Petrolimex plans to equities entire firm

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Hanoi (VNA) - The State-owned Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex)and 41 subsidiary petrol companies have asked the Government to equitie the whole corporation, according to Petrolim

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