In its global research, foreign-owned Standard Chartered Bank (Viet Nam) expects Vietnam's economic growth to reach 6 percent in 2016 and 6.6 percent in 2017. SEE MORE Economic growth in ASEAN countries was expected to dip to 4.5 percent in 2016 from 4.7 percent last year due to China's slowdown and uncertainties related to Britain's vote to leave the European Union, the member states said in a statement. SEE MORE The Russian authorities plan to built 13 hydroelectric power stations and 15 wind power plants with power capacity of over 100 MW across the country, a power development plan released by the Russian government on Tuesday said. SEE MORE The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) reported that deep debt ratio in the banking sector was 2.78 percent by the end of May, meeting the goal to keep it below 3 percent, at cabinet meeting this month. However the ratio highly increased in many commercial banks in the first half this year. SEE MORE The cobalt market continued to rally in 2015, with the help of Tesla Motors plans to build a lithium-ion battery gigafactory to boost sentiment. SEE MORE