Deputies call for economic strategies to offset inflation
The National Assembly called for initiatives ranging from better economic forecasting to help those most affected by inflation and a curb of unproductive State-owned enterprise spending yesterday.

Hungarian President to visit Viet Nam

Seafood exports grow steadily
Viet Nam reaped more than US$1 billion from seafood exports in the first four months of this year, a year-on-year rise of 8.4 per cent, Deputy Minister of the Agricultural and Rural Development Ministry Luong Le Phuong said.

North to stay on development course
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked cities and provinces in the key northern economic region to continue to exploit their achievements so that the region will continue to develop rapidly.

Gov't issues guide to Tender Law
The Government has issued a decree for implementation of the Tender Law that focuses on selection of contractors and the fostering of fair competition between bidders

Ministry urges postponing price hikes
The Government must postpone a plan to allow the prices of several necessities to rise in July in a move to ease people's financial burdens, said the director of the Ministry of Finance's Price Management Department, Nguyen Tien Thoa.

PetroVietnam aims to sink prices
National oil-and-gas giant PetroVietnam announced yesterday it would boost domestic natural gas production, continue seeking less expensive foreign sources and take additional measures aimed at reining in rising fuel and fertiliser costs.

Online gold, money trades cited as illegal
The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) on Wednesday issued an instruction warning investors that online gold and dollar trading was illegal under current law.

Developers lower their sights
Property investors in HCM City are revising their business plans this year as a result of a stagnant real estate market and the tightening of bank loans.

Delta farmers expand areas of rice cultivation as prices climb
Farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are expanding their cultivation areas for the summer-autumn rice crop to 1.5 million ha to take advantage of higher rice prices.

Illegal China organ trade ends in tragedy
Selling kidneys for cash has been a decade-long global concern.

Coffee shop gets farmers thinking
There's a coffee shop with a difference in An Giang Province's An Binh Commune.