Vietnam’s economy expanded an estimated 5.67 percent in the second quarter from a year before after annual growth of 5.43 percent in the first quarter, the government said on Wednesday.

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Vietnam Q2 GDP grows 5.67 pct year on year: gov’t

VietinBank, Vietnam’s largest listed lender, will complete the sale of a 15 percent stake to Canada’s Bank of Nova Scotia in the second half of 2011, a local newspaper said on Wednesday.

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Vietnam intensified efforts to tackle the highest inflation since 2008, saying interest rates will rise in May for the second time in a month.

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Vietnam increases rates to fight highest inflation in 28 months

Vietnam’s central bank raised its reverse repurchase rate, the second increase in borrowing costs in less than a week, as Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung prepares to order tighter policies to tame inflation.

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The Ministry of Finance, for the second time in less than a month, has allowed local businesss to tap the fuel price stabilization fund to offset their losses.

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Fuel traders use fund drawings to offset losses

Vietnam, the second-largest rice exporter, will ship more than 6.5 million metric tons of the grain this year, the country’s agricultural minister said.

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Vietnam to export more than 6.5 mln tons of rice, unaffected by floods

Vietnam’s computer market rebounded in the second quarter on strong laptop sales, according to a recent report by market research firm IDC.

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Computer market stages Q2 recovery

Traders in Vietnam, the second-biggest rice exporter, may have “unofficially” shipped about 600,000 tons to China this year across the nation’s northern border, according to the Vietnam Food Association.

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Vietnam ships rice to China in ‘unofficial trade,’ group says

Vietnam now has the second highest consumer confidence index in the world according to a second-quarter report from Nielsen.

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Vietnam ranks second in consumer confidence

The Ministry of Constrution has asked three foreign-invested cement producers to export up to 150,000 tons of cement in the second half this year as local supply has outpaced demand, an official said.

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Cement producers asked to fulfill export pledges