The country welcomed approximately 3.25 million international visitors in the first four months of this year, up 17.8 per cent against the same period last year, according to the Việt Nam National Aministration of Tourism (VNAT).

The Việt Nam Saigon Plastic Association will focus on research to develop renewable raw materials replacing fossil-based materials for making plastics in the 2016-20 period, its president has said.

Vietnamese shares yesterday retreated on both local bourses as investors tried to look for profits in financial stocks.

The Vietnamese Government supports Russia’s Gazprom in expanding oil and gas production in Việt Nam, asserted Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc at his reception for Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom in Hà Nội yesterday.

The capital city generated approximately USS3.4 billion from exports in the first four months of the year, marking a modest increase of 0.2 per cent against the same period last year, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

Việt Nam is committed to macro-economic stability and the best possible conditions for foreign investors in the country, including Goldman Sachs, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told head of the US-based multinational investment banking firm’s Asia division Andrea Vella, during a reception in Hà Nội yesterday.

World Economic Forum (WEF) Managing Director Philipp Rösler met with young Vietnamese people and entrepreneurs in Hà Nội on Monday.

Vietnamese enterprises should foster their shrimp exports to the United Kingdom as exports to other markets were tending to slow down, the Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep) has suggested.

The Credit Information Centre (CIC) under the State Bank of Việt Nam should use data from other industries instead of information just from credit institutions to bring customers to banks.