The second forum on merger and acquisition (M&A) was held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 25 in an effort to boost these kinds of transactions in the country. SEE MORE HCM CITY — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved last Friday a 10-year national programme to increase productivity and quality of Vietnamese goods and services. SEE MORE HA NOI — An agreement to foster capital exchanges between Viet Nam and Japan is slated to be signed here today by the Japan Asia Group, Aizawa Securities, United Investment, Japan Securities, MB Capital and Thang Long Securities Joint Stock Co. SEE MORE Eight commercial banks on May 24 jointly signed in the central province of Quang Ngai a credit contract with the Binh Son Refining Petrochemical Company to provide it a synthetic loan worth 200 million USD. SEE MORE TOKYO — Japanese investors are happy with investing in Viet Nam as the country boasts political stability, an abundant, young and skilled workforce and a market of over 80 million people, said Saito Nobuo, a representative from the Japan-Viet Nam Friendship Association (JVFA). SEE MORE