Despite a gloom in the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) in the region, Vietnam’s PMI continued to expand, reaching a ten-month high of 52.7 in May from 52.3 in the previous month. SEE MORE Cabinet members yesterday focussed their discussions on the country’s socio-economic performance for the first five months of 2016 in general, and for May, in particular. SEE MORE The next round of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a proposed 16-nation free-trade area that would be the world's largest such bloc, takes place June 12-18 in Auckland, New Zealand. SEE MORE Regulating the use of dollars in the banking sector is again in the news after overseas deposits of the greenback by Vietnamese entities, mostly banks, have skyrocketed. SEE MORE At the meeting with Price Steering Board lately, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue ordered ministries to plan more tightened fiscal and monetary policies to help the government and the PM control inflation rate under 5 percent which the National Assembly targeted. SEE MORE
