Suppliers of foods to pre-schools in HCM City are scrambling to join food distribution chains due to fears that unattached sellers would have their contracts terminated.

Siemens has won a contract to supply electrical equipment for the country’s largest solar plant, which is being developed by Trung Nam Group in the south central province of Ninh Thuận.

A Vietnamese company has won a bid to export 60,000 tonnes of Japonica brown rice to South Korea, defeating competition from rivals of China, Thailand and Australia.

In the last 20 years Việt Nam has switched from being an agricultural economy to one of the brightest manufacturing hotspots in South East Asia, according to the latest report from Jones Lang LaSalle.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau will expand trade promotion activities in the second half of the year, with shrimp as its key export.

Though Vietnamese shares bounced back strongly in the last two sessions of last week, analysts and brokerage firms remained skeptical that the stock market had actually overcome a difficult period and begun its consolidation.

Housing Development Bank (HD Bank) has unveiled a preferential loan package at 6.3 per cent interest meant for customers borrowing on their credit card with a limit of VNĐ300 million (US$13,016).

The HCM City’s District 1 Tax Department has sent instructions to banks to seize VNĐ148 billion (US$6.46 billion) from Nguyen Kim Joint-Stock Company for back taxes and fines the company owes.

Growing foreign direct investment and a move up the value chain mean Việt Nam’s industrial real estate sector has a bright future, according to property consultant Savills Vietnam.