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The northern province of Hung Yen attracted 182 investment projects in the first nine months of 2017, up 44 percent year-on-year, according to local authorities.

The Vietnam Airlines Corporation earned a pre-tax profit of over 2.3 trillion VND (101.64 million USD) in the first nine months this year, surpassing its yearly target by 40 percent.

Vietnam’s economy witnessed positive changes in the first nine months of 2017 with growth increasing from quarter to quarter, according to Director General of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Bich Lam.

GDP grew by 7.46 percent in the third quarter of 2017, compared to the 6.28 percent growth rate in the previous quarter. But the nine-month growth rate is still lower than the year's 6.7-pct target.

Export turnover of agro-forestry-aquatic products reached 3.04 billion USD in September, bringing the nine-month figure to nearly 27 billion USD, up 14.1 percent year-on-year.

Vietnam welcomed more than 9.4 million international tourists in the first nine months of 2017, a year-on-year rise of 28.4 percent.