Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc called on Japanese businesses to help their Vietnamese peers develop and support high-technology industries, during a talk with relevant major Japanese businesses yesterday.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh has said that Việt Nam was committed to supporting trade liberalisation and open co-operation with all partners, including the UK.

The first Nutrition and Natural Health Festival to be held in HCM City from October 18 to 21 will seek to network local producers of food and agricultural products, customers and local and foreign distribution systems.

Selling pressure increased at the end of Wednesday’s trading session while purchasing demand was not enough to save indices from falling.

The Lâm San Agricultural Cooperative has received a certification from the Germany-based CERES – Certification of Environmental Standards, for its organic pepper meeting the European Union’s organic standards.

Sales of cars in September reached 25,351 units in the Vietnamese market, increasing by 19 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA).

Standing Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình urged small and medium – sized enterprises (SMEs) to make innovations to take advantage of the industry 4.0 and engage in the global value chain.

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) has directed commercial banks to prepare funds in a move to timely meet capital demands of rice exporters as regulated in Decree 107/2018/NĐ-CP on rice export operations.

Ural Airlines, Russia’s fourth largest carrier, has proposed an air route connecting Russia with the south central province of Phú Yên, baodautu.vn reported.

VinFast Trading and Production Limited Liability Company (VinFast) has entered into a US$950 million financing agreement guaranteed by Euler Hermes and the German Export Credit Agency (ECA), to support the country’s first automotive and motorcycle manufacturing complex, Vinfast announced in its press release.

Vietjet on Wednesday announced three new international routes linking Việt Nam with Japan, in a move accelerating the growth of tourism and trade between the two countries and across the region.

Most investment funds in Việt Nam’s equity market have recorded modest gains and were beaten by the growth of the benchmark VN-Index in the past three quarters.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and leaders of other Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries attended the Mekong-Japan Business Forum in Tokyo yesterday with the participation of 600 enterprises from the GMS nations and Japan.

Cooperatives involved in growing VietGap (Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices) vegetables should first build trust with consumers and producers before expanding cultivation, experts have said.

The furniture industry aims to achieve sales of US$20 billion by 2025 and move from doing mainly sub-contract work to original design.

Several supermarkets in HCM City are planning to help dragon fruit farmers in the central province of Bình Thuận sell their products at better than market prices.

The EU – Việt Nam free trade agreement (EVFTA) will help enhance the national competitiveness of Việt Nam, according to a report launched by the European Chamber of Commerce (Eurocham) in HCM City on Tuesday.

A billboard offering 5.3sq.m of land for VNĐ20 billion (US$870,000) that hung on Nguyễn Văn Huyên Street, Cầu Giấy District, at the end of last month was yet more proof of Ha Noi’s urban planning problems.