The Vietnam Furniture and Home Furnishing Fair will promote locally-made wooden furniture, home decor and handicraft products for the domestic market.

Foreign arrivals to Việt Nam surpassed 6.7 million in the five months of this year, up 27.6 per cent annually, the General Statistics Office announced on Tuesday.

Following China’s ban on import of plastic wastes, a lot of them are coming instead to Việt Nam, but with consignees failing to claim shipments, the wastes are piling up at ports including in HCM City.

Việt Nam’s consumer price index (CPI) inched up 0.55 per cent in May, the highest monthly increase since 2012, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Việt Nam and Japan can accelerate co-operation in applying Japan’s new technology and advanced value chain management methods to Việt Nam’s agricultural production, according to experts at a conference in the capital city on Tuesday.

Farmers should reduce their volumes of shrimp at present to deal with a fall in purchasing price and wait for a recovery in shrimp prices on the world market, according to the Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

The massive increase in the number of M&A deals involving foreign investors is putting pressure on Việt Nam’s plastics industry.

Converting idle gold held by Vietnamese people into money and other assets may help provide more funding for socio-economic development and business operation, according to the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV).

Vietnamese shares rebounded strongly from a six-month low as investors decided to scoop up stocks following the recent downtrend.