The country's total non-performing loans by the end of June stood at VND346.96 trillion (US$15.489 million), equal to 9.2 per cent of the country's GDP. SEE MORE Vietnam is facing increasingly big economic woes, according to a Government report delivered at a session in Hanoi last Friday of the National Assembly Economic Committee. SEE MORE The government is set to increase State budget collections from the domestic sector to offset lower collections from imports and exports. SEE MORE Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was estimated to reach 5.93 percent in the first nine months of 2016 and expected to hit 6.3-6.5 percent this year, reported deputy minister of Science and Technology Dao Quang Thu at a meeting yesterday. SEE MORE Viet Nam has been named in the Top 30 most lucrative emerging retail markets in the world for foreign investors in A.T. Kearney's Global Retail Development Index since 2008. SEE MORE