VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s economic performance in the first five months of the year has been rock steady.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is set to facilitate trade and investment, bringing more benefits to production, business, workers and consumers,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam should take advantage of its current "golden population" consisting of a high percentage of young people, as the country will enter an ageing phase soon,

 VietNamNet Bridge – At the close of the latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, chief negotiators were quoted as saying the finish line is in sight and they expect to cross it in the first quarter of 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – A demand to improve management of natural resources to stop its depletion and degradation was made at a seminar on boosting transparency in natural resources management, in Ha Noi last week.

 The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it will not pause the bond buying program, as there is sufficient underlying strength in the broader economy for it to keep taper on course.

The top priority for the nation is to bolster economic growth and create jobs for the middle class, warning that drastic government spending cuts will hurt U.S. economic recovery.

VietNamNet Bridge - The economic situation in 2013 is anticipated to be difficult. Nearly 200,000 people in Ho Chi Minh City will be very difficult to find a job.