Although the Vietnamese Good Agriculture Practice (VietGap) was issued for seafood breeding five years ago, enterprises are not enthusiastic about using this standard as a qualification for their product exports.

Some major commercial banks are considering lowering lending interest rates after cutting đồng deposit rates this week.

State should eliminate price ceilings for milk products and control price of milk products from input material, experts said.

Japanese authorities have adjusted schedules for checks on antibiotic residues in seafood products imported from Việt Nam, according to the National Agro-Forestry- Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad).

Vietnamese shares extended gains yesterday, rescued by oil and gas firms during the end of the session after oil prices rebounded strongly on OPEC’s first eight-year output reduction.

Việt Nam is Australia’s fastest growing ASEAN trading partner as a result of trade deals like ASEAN Australia New Zealand FTA and proposed ones like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and Trans-Pacific Partnership, HSBC has said in a recent report.

The country’s exports are estimated to reach US$128 billion in the first nine months of this year, up 6.7 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest statistics from the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Up till the end of August, more than 28 trillion (US$1.25 billion) was disbursed from the VNĐ30 trillion housing stimulus package, according to the Ministry of Construction.

US would remain to impose anti-dumping duty on Vietnamese frozen warmwater shrimp to the US market after the second five-year sunset review, reported the Việt Nam Competition Authority (VCA).