Hanoi strengthens export competitiveness and trade protection measures
Hanoi will work with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to ensure that businesses and manufacturers are ready for new challenges.
22:19, 2025/01/09
Hanoi's foreign trade turnover hits US$60.1bn in 2024
The city will continue to support businesses in exploring new markets, capitalizing on the Free Trade Agreement of which Vietnam is a member.
17:34, 2024/12/15
Hanoi's wet markets in decline amid changing consumer behaviors
Local consumers prefer shopping options that offer convenience and assurance of product origin.
17:20, 2024/12/14
Busy high season at Thuong Mao Carpentry Village
Founded during the Nguyen dynasty in the 1800s, Thuong Mao Carpentry Village on the outskirts of Hanoi has grown steadily to become a major supplier of wood products throughout Vietnam.
16:17, 2019/05/23
Sony Mobile withdraws from many markets including Vietnam
In fact, Sony had downsized its business operations in the Southeast Asia months ago and closed some of its main stores in Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East.
05:51, 2019/05/23
Why Western retailers say goodbye to Vietnam?
The Vietnamese retail market would hardly attract more European retail groups in the mass segment due to the harsh competition.
09:35, 2019/05/22
China remains Vietnam’s largest steel and iron provider
Total steel and iron import of Vietnam in the four-month period reached 4.67 million of tons worth US$3.12 billion, up 9% in volume and 3.4% in value year on year.
15:15, 2019/05/20
Slowing global demand poses substantial challenge to Vietnam’s exports
However, the US-China trade tension may benefit Vietnam through trade diversion, as well as the potential relocation of foreign firms away from China to Vietnam.
11:35, 2019/05/17
Private airlines bring dynamism to Vietnam’s aviation industry
Competition helped eliminate monopoly in Vietnam’s aviation market.
17:14, 2019/05/13
Vietnam insurance market grows 17% in 4 months
Insurance companies have reinvested VND328.7 trillion (US$14.08 billion) into the economy during the four-month period, up 26.5% year-on-year.
12:56, 2019/05/13
US – China trade war escalation benefits Vietnam
Vietnam has an opportunity to jump in and offer goods that avoid the increasing tariffs.
11:03, 2019/05/11
Vietnam urges Denmark, Bulgaria to support EVFTA ratification
Vietnam gives priority to the comprehensive partnership with Denmark and the all-round cooperation with Bulgaria.
16:59, 2019/05/09
Car rental market in Vietnam is growing
Car rental has emerged to be one of the most prominent services in the country of fast urbanization and the increasing growth of middle-class population.
22:06, 2019/05/03
Competition is part of the game as CPTPP comes into play
Vietnam’s participation in the CPTPP would help the country perfect legal frameworks and improve the business environment towards greater transparency, smoothness and fairness.
20:31, 2019/05/02
EU, Vietnam to ratify “ambitious” EVFTA by end of 2019: HSBC
It is estimated that the EU-Vietnam FTA (EVFTA), the “most ambitious” FTA the EU has ever concluded with a developing country, will add 0.1 percentage point (ppt) on average to Vietnam’s real GDP growth each year based solely on its trade impacts.
17:22, 2019/05/02
Vietnam targets 50% enterprises operating on digital platform by 2025
A successful digital transformation would help Vietnam’s GDP increase by US$162 billion over the next 20 years.
17:20, 2019/05/01
Vietnam trade surplus narrows to US$711 million in Jan-Apr
Vietnam`s trade turnover reached US$156.8 billion in the first four months of 2019, up 8% year-on-year.
10:38, 2019/04/27
Vietnam better off without China – US trade deal: Brokerage
Since former president Bill Clinton lifted the trade embargo against Vietnam in 1994, relations between the former foes have grown ever warmer, despite or perhaps because of China’s rise as a major regional power.
16:13, 2019/04/24
CPTPP to help Vietnam exports grow 10% amid global uncertainties: Brokerage
Vietnam will face difficulties in exporting as global growth is slowing down, dragged down by China. Electronics and mobile phones also run into difficulties with a global saturation.
12:04, 2019/04/24
Vietnam makes better use of FTAs
Vietnam has the largest FTA utilization rate in the Indian market at 72%, Chile and South Korea came second and third at 67% and 60%.
08:57, 2019/04/19
Vietnam leads cashless drive in Southeast Asia
Vietnam and Thailand are experiencing a boom in mobile payments as more people use e-wallets to pay for goods and services.
16:26, 2019/04/17
Vietnam’s e-commerce market set to become second largest in ASEAN by 2025
With 40% of the population below the age of 24 and their greater propensity for digital technology, many of these younger consumers are driving the rapid expansion of Vietnam’s e-commerce market.
14:50, 2019/04/16
Romania supports EVFTA signing: President
The agreement, along with the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), is a specific step to brings benefits to Vietnam, EU and Romania, said Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
05:23, 2019/04/16
Vietnam leads Southeast Asia in growth of convenience stores
Convenience store channel has become a battlefield for domestic and foreign retailers due to its great potential.