Việt Nam News

The first batch of Vietnamese chicken was exported to Japan on Saturday, marking a milestone in the country’s efforts to open the discerning Japanese market to meet and dairy exports.

Leather and footwear exports in the first eight months topped US$9.64 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.2 per cent, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Việt Nam is home to a growing number of tech-savvy “connected consumers” that global corporations will increasingly seek to court, according to a study conducted by Nielsen in cooperation with Demand Institute.

Despite a new US requirement that foreign exporters demonstrate their food safety control system is equivalent to American regulations, no backlog has been recorded in Vietnamese tra fish exports to that country.

Only about 17 per cent of listed companies comply with information disclosure regulations, lower than the figure in 2016, according to the Vietnam Association of Financial Executives (VAFE).

The Security Bootcamp 2017 event will be held in Khánh Hòa Province on September 9-10.

Some top experts in payments, e-commerce and retail gave their insights into the future of online trading in Việt Nam at a two-day seminar in HCM City this week.

The central province of Ninh Thuận is developing eco-tourism activities by opening up farmers’ fruit orchards to visitors, according to the province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Equitisation of State owned enterprises (SOEs) has progressed well in 2011-2016 period and the first eight months of 2017 thanks to various ministries and sectors, economic groups and localities getting onboard, said an official from the Ministry of Finance.

Việt Nam’s benchmark VN Index rallied for a seventh session on Friday, driven by leading stocks in real estate, food and beverage, insurance-finance and construction sectors.

The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Việt Nam (Vietcombank, HOSE: VCB) will make an 8 per cent dividend payout based on the bank’s performance in 2016.

Electricity of Vệt Nam (EVN) Group and its coal supplier Việt Nam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) have finally reached an agreement on coal selling prices for power production.

Tiền Phong Industrial Zone JSC and Russia’s Seaport of Azov on September 8th agreed to transform 100 hectares in Quảng Ninh Province into a hub for industrial manufacturing and port operations.

Enterprises from the southern province of Đồng Nai and Japan were given a chance to meet and seek co-operation opportunities at a conference in Tokyo on September 7.

The European Union (EU) wants to ratify the EU-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) in 2018 and put it into force as soon as possible, the EU’s chief negotiator Mauro Petriccione has said.

Việt Nam and Egypt’s goal of increasing two-way trade to US$1 billion in the future is fully feasible, said Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Chairman Vũ Tiến Lộc.

The Government has a major role in incubating enterprises, participants at a seminar in HCM City were told on Thursday.

The Việt Nam-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect in December 2015, has given a big boost to economic ties between the two countries, a seminar heard in HCM City on Thursday (September 7).