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The domestic sector has lost the local and export forestry markets to the foreign sector, Huynh Van Hanh, general director of the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of Ho Chi Minh City has said.

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Vietnam exported 432,000 tonnes of rice for 191 million USD in August, bringing the total volume and value in the first eight months of this year to 3.37 million tonnes and 1.51 billion USD.

As usual, foreign investors want to cash in on Vietnam's low-cost manufacturing.

The credit package is expected to enable Vietnamese land users to get better access to land information and land services.

The Vietnamese government has targeted at least 30% of the population will do their shopping online by 2020 with average spending at US$350 per capita.

Vietnam and Laos have agreed on the final plans to build an expressway connecting Hanoi and Vientiane via the Thanh Thuy international checkpoint between Nghe An province and Borikhamxay province.

Vietnam's total export turnover in the first seven months of the year was 96.83 billion USD, representing an annual increase of 5.3 percent, said Duong Duy Hung, Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Planning Department.

Emirates on August 3 launched a new daily service from Dubai to Yangon (RGN) in Myanmar and Hanoi (HAN) in Vietnam, expanding its network in South East Asia.

It is one of the three largest foreign industrial park developers in Vietnam.

The central bank may have escaped the impacts of Brexit without exhausting its foreign reserves.

Domestic electronics manufacturing can play a bigger role in the industrial development of the nation and help grow the country's exports - thereby creating more real jobs, says the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI).

Vietnam attracted 1,408 foreign direct investment projects with the total registered capital of US$8.7 billion from early 2016 to July 20, an on-year increase of 32 percent in the number of projects and 25.5 percent in capital.

The plant reflects Vietnam's views on environmentally-friendly building materials.

The World Bank approved a $371 million loan for 3 different improved land governance and database projects.

The July consumer price index (CPI) CPI rose 0.13 percent against June, 2.39 percent year on year and 2.48 percent compared to December 2015, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on July 24.

Vietnam will continue to receive preferential loans from Japan until 2030. This information was announced by JICA's Chief Representative in Vietnam recently.

Vietnam's economy is expected to expand by 6% or less in 2016, according to a report by the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR).

Ninh Binh is committed to creating favorable conditions for Lao investors who wish to enter the local market, said Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Tong Quang Thin.