PM Nguyen Tan Dung, during the Government’s regular meeting for August, urged relevant ministries to keep close eye on macro-economic stability and price management.

Mobile game maker SocialDeck announced on Monday it has been bought by Google, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the Internet giant.

Only when hitting snags in exporting their products do Vietnamese wood processors focus on the domestic market.

Many businesses kicked off promotions with discounts of up to 50 per cent to welcome National Day and mark the start of the city's official sales promotion month in September.

About 40,000 tonnes of low-quality salt remains to be sold, leaving salt farmers in Ho Chi Minh City extremely worried, said Doan Van Son, Vice Chairman of People’s Committee of Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City.

World stock markets sank heavily on Tuesday as investors shunned risky assets amid renewed fears over the United States economy, while Tokyo also dived on concern over the soaring yen, dealers said.

Talk of the global economic recovery fizzling doesn't faze Cho Byung-cheol, president of a small South Korean technology company that has already set up a branch in China and plans one soon in the United States.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has suspended Tran Quang Vu from the post of Vinahin’s Genereal Executive Director.

Lack of awareness and financial support for technology enabling Cleaner Production in Industry (CPI) had handicapped its introduction in Vietnam, said Nguyen Khac Kinh, deputy president of the Vietnam Association for Environment Impact Assessment.

In Hanoi, many shops, retail centers and travel agents have launched attractive promotions and discount to lure celebrating customers.

Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have extended the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on supplying and receiving Vietnamese guest workers under the employment permit system (EPS) programme.

CLMV economic ministers meet for increased ties The economic ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) met for the first time in Vietnam’s coastal city of Da Nang on Aug. 28 to seek ways to boost their countries’ economic and trade ties.

Economic ties between the United States and Southeast Asia are "a high priority", an embassy spokesman said Saturday despite the absence of US officials from a key regional trade meeting.

Agricultural exports totalled US$12.2 billion in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 20 per cent compared to the same period a year ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced.

The European Union (EU) is seeking to push economic links with ASEAN, said EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht at a media conference in Da Nang yesterday, on the sidelines of the 42nd ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting.