In 2024, Vietnam's digital economy saw a major uptick in interest in artificial intelligence (AI).

In 2025, the geopolitical and economic landscape is expected to remain complex, affecting production, investment and trade activities.

A large number of European companies foresee an improvement in the macroeconomic outlook for Vietnam in the first quarter of 2025.

Experts expect Vietnam to achieve 2013 GDP growth between 5.3–5.4% while keeping annual inflation to 6.2–6.3% but warn domestic production needs more time to make a complete recovery.

The Vietnamese manufacturing sector slowed down in November to a fractional pace as a fall in new orders broadly offset continued expansion of output and employment, according to HSBC Vietnam.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) once again tops the list of the 500 largest enterprises in 2013.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) forecasted that export turnover in 2013 may reach US$133.5 billion, up 16.6% compared to the year’s plan.

Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Market Department Deputy Head Le Viet Nga has revealed Vietnam’s export tea price is significantly lower than the average global price, attributing it to more than 90% of tea volumes being exported in the form of raw materials.

As of the end of November, the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) increased 5.6% compared to the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.

The 10th Conference of the ASEAN Council on Petroleum (ASCOPE) is underway in Ho Chi Minh City from November 28-30.

The Vietnam- Australian Northern Territory business forum aims to further enhance economic and trade links between Vietnamese and Australian businesses.

Despite market fluctuations and adverse weather, the agricultural sector’s export earnings rose 1.5% in the past 11 months to US$25.25 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A London based reporter of Vietnam News Agency on November 25 quoted the Economist Group’s Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) assessment on Vietnam’s promising prospects for economic growth in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s garment and textile exports to the Republic of Korea (RoK) fetched US$1.37 billion in the past ten months of 2013, up 49.2% compared to last year’s figure, according to the statistics of General Department of Customs.

Vietnam’s export figures for October were up by a healthy 12.8%, compared to the previous month, reaching a total revenue of US$12.61 billion. Imports rose by 11% to US$12.51 billion.

Vietnam will build a tra fish distribution establishment at Zeebrugge port in Belgium to facilitate its exports to the European market.

Vietnam shipped more than 30,700 tonnes of coffee to Mexico in the past 10 months, earning US$63 million or down 19% against the same period last year.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has announced the US recently overtook Japan to become the world’s biggest importer of Vietnamese shrimp.

Footwear businesses are busy with a number of new contracts. Their exports are expected to hit a record high of US$8 billion this year.

They showed a 7.3 percent increase from a year earlier, with the October shipments estimated at US$680 million (up 14 percent) and the third-quarter value at more than US$1.9 billion (up 17.4%).

While Vietnam exports energy, the country may face a serious power shortage in the next decades due to energy squandering and rising demand, experts warned.

Vietnam will become one of the world’s third fastest growing aviation markets, according to Lianhe Zaobao (United Morning) newspaper in its October 23 edition.

Vietnam’s seafood exports to Brazil remain at a modest rate, accounting for 1.8% of its total export volume. Even so many local businesses plan to boost exports to this market which has an average annual growth of 26%.