Vietnamese and Chinese enterprises on Wednesday signed agreements in principle on watermelon trade in 2018 and the following years, at a conference in the central province of Quảng Ngãi.

Rạng Đông Plastics Joint Stock Company (RDP) and Sojitz Pla-Net, a Japanese corporation, signed a strategic partnership on December 5, taking a new step towards co-operation between the two sides.

Việt Nam’s Housing Development Bank (HD Bank) will be the fifth bank to list its shares on the country’s stock exchanges after VIB, Kienlongbank, VPBank and LienVietPostBank.

Enterprises from Việt Nam and South Korea are encouraged to tap unexploited potential to foster co-operation based on common interests and individual strengths of each country in the face of opportunities and challenges arising from the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Businesses in Beijing and Tianjin and Hebei provinces in China want to promote investment and trade with Vietnamese partners, according to the Tianjin Foreign Economic and Trade Promotion Association.

The average electricity retail price officially increased by 6.08 per cent, from VNĐ1,622 (7.1 US cents) to VNĐ1,720 per kWh (7.6 cents), on December 1 after three years being kept unchanged.

With a growing economy, sophisticated market, innovation, together with business-friendly infrastructure and a comfortable living environment, Japan is attractive destination for Vietnamese enterprises to invest in.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) on Tuesday announced preliminary affirmative rulings on corrosion-resistant steel (CORE) and certain cold-rolled steel flat products imported from Việt Nam and produced from substrate originating in China.