Việt Nam News

Việt Nam Trade Office in Australia has just launched a new application called Viet-Aus Trade to support export businesses, provide information on products and investment opportunities.

Exports and imports of agricultural goods saw a decline in the first five months of 2020 due to the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)’s monthly report last week.

If inflation was excluded, retail sales dropped 8.6 per cent, compared to 8.5 per cent seen in last year’s corresponding period.

The US was Việt Nam’s leading export market in the first five months of the year, despite a slight decrease in total export turnover.

Vicostone Joint Stock Company specialises in manufacturing and supplying high-quality quartz-based engineered stones under VICOSTONE® Quartz Surfaces brand.

Exports of wood and wood products in the first four months of the year were worth nearly US$3.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6 per cent, according to the General Department of Customs.

The Government has proposed to the National Assembly three options for transforming investment models at sub-projects of the Eastern North-South Expressway for consideration.

Việt Nam’s beer market would have great changes in 2020 as the country has always been a potential market for domestic and foreign beer enterprises. The fierce competition has been forecasted early since more and more foreign brands were looking for opportunities in the market.

The GSO attributed this month's positive figures to the end of the social distancing orders and effective support programmes from the Government. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the flow of goods delivery when many countries implement social distancing, strictly (but not completely) restricting trading activities through both sea and air

The fund’s quarterly review had little impact on local stock market and the market ended slightly up as investors waited for its final results

The Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI), founded in 1979, pursues a common mission like other working groups of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI), that is “Professional supreme audit institutions promote good State governance” and with the core values of “Professionalism, Cooperation, Equality, Creativity”.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airline has resumed full domestic operations with the number of domestic passenger flights on May 29 up 36 percent year on year to over 300.

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the important role of digital transformation in prevention and control activities, bringing life to a “new normal” state.

The Government was focusing on boosting the development of enterprises and encourage private investment among keys to accelerate post-pandemic economic growth.

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the retail market in Việt Nam in the first quarter of this year still recorded positive results from e-commerce, online shopping and delivery services.

Trương Văn Cẩm, deputy chairman of Vitas, said these figures were anticipated to fall much further in May and June due to the majority of export orders being cancelled or delayed.

VinSmart said it sold more than 1.2 million Vsmart mobile phones after 17 months of joining the market, meaning that at least one out of 100 Vietnamese people use the brand.