Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang are preparing to ship 400 tonnes of well-known local Lò Rèn star apples to the US this year.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế is striving to attract 15 domestic and foreign investment projects with a total registered capital of some VNĐ10 trillion (US$428.8 million) in 2018.

Property developer FLC Group said it will inject US$1.5 billion into agricultural development across 15,000 hectares of land in Việt Nam during 2018 and 2019.

PV GAS and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to provide PV Gas with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Alaska LNG project.

Việt Nam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has decided to maintain safeguard measures for steel billets and steel bars imported from a number of countries and territories including China, the US, Canada, Germany, France, Japan and the Republic of Korea.

Many local enterprises are concerned with paying higher corporate income tax according to regulations on the deductibility of loan interest under Decree 20, in effect since May 1, 2017.

The domestic sector posted a trade deficit of $20.7 billion in the period while the foreign-invested sector enjoyed a trade surplus of $27.1 billion, the General Statistics Office said in a monthly report.

Vietnamese enterprises, especially small- and medium-sized ones, should develop their brands to increase their competitiveness amid the process of integration, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

Vingroup has injected more than VNĐ13.6 trillion (US$581.32 million) into its VinFast automobile project in the first nine months of this year, marking an increase of over VNĐ12.9 trillion compared with the beginning of last year.