KKR, one of the world’s most famous and prestigious private equity firms, last week announced a $200 million investment into Masan Consumer to deepen its partnership with Masan Group in Vietnam.

HCMC – Investment of Japanese enterprises is forecast to increase further in 2013, with a focus on the items for domestic consumption and export to Asia.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the banking sector to focus on controlling inflation and handling non-performing loans in 2013.

The Government has just issued its first resolution in 2013 defining major solutions to realize the socio-economic development and budget estimate plan for 2013.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a plan to restructure Vietnam National Chemical Group over the next three years, according to a posting on the government’s website.

As much as VND301 billion  (about $14 million) will be needed to further propel the development of Vietnam’s aquaculture sector in 2013.

The Vietnamese economy still showed a number of positive signs despite domestic and global economic hardships.

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Vietnam’s economy is on the right track despite a number of problems in need of observation, economists of Standard Chartered Bank said in the 2013 economic report.

Despite the dominant number of State-owned companies in the top 500 biggest firms announced by Vietnam Report on Monday, private enterprises have still continued to strengthen their presence in the list.