HA NOI — An economist with Barclays Capital disagrees with Fitch's recent decision to give Viet Nam a BB- rating and place the country's economy on a negative watch. SEE MORE HA NOI — Viet Nam and China aim to increase two-way trade turnover to US$25 billion as well as further promote investment between the two countries in 2010, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. SEE MORE Exports in April rose by 2 percent over March to stand at 5.7 billion USD, bringing the nation’s four-month export value to 20.1 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 8.9 percent.
SEE MORE The US-based telecommunications company AT&T has said it sees the Vietnamese market as the most-promising in the ASEAN region, the Channel NewsAsia (CNA) reported on April 23.
SEE MORE Two-way trade between Vietnam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has gone up steadily each year but still records a deficit, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Head of the ministry’s Asia-Pacific Department Dao Tran Nhan said that two-way trade registered an annual average growth rate of nearly 26 percent during the 2005-08 period, reaching 29.8 billion USD in 2008, doubling 2005’s figure. SEE MORE