Việt Nam News

The Việt Nam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) and Alibaba.com, a global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform from Alibaba Group co-hosted the “It’s my time – Việt Nam F&B online export summit” to launch the latest digital solutions for F&B companies to export their products worldwide.

With the COVID-19 pandemic remaining unpredictable, food and beverage businesses are keeping production at moderate levels and not introducing many new products for Tết (Lunar New Year) unlike other years.

For the four months of the strict social distancing, Nguyễn Bích Trâm learned how to oil paint. Like millions of other people, she is happy the situation now allows for work to return to the office, but she does admit she has gotten used to the ease of working from home. 

Market analysts forecast that the VN-Index is unlikely to see a new drop in the short term as the demand for stocks remains significant.

The General Department of Taxation started to issue electronic invoices (or e-invoices) yesterday in Hà Nội, HCM City, Bình Định, Quảng Ninh, Hải Phòng and Phú Thọ.

The capital city has implemented many high-tech agricultural production models, however, in order to move towards smart agriculture, the city will have to pay more attention to promoting the application of science and technology as well as training high-quality labour resources.

After 25 years of development, the Vietnamese stock market is playing a more important role in attracting capital, supporting the commercial banking system. Therefore the target is to turn the market into the main channel of medium and long-term capital for the economy.

He also said that Vietnamese brands have been gaining increasing trust in Australia thanks to a number of trade promotion activities in order to better advertise brands of Vietnamese products and increasing efforts made by businesses.

The domestic auto market is expected to continue growing in the remaining months of this year, according to experts, after expanding by up to 120 per cent in October.

The domestic hospitality market is expected to recover strongly with the gradual resumption of domestic and international tourism, though the Ministry of Construction (MoC) warns that it might not all be plain sailing. 

Shares finished the week on a negative note as the market was pressure by many large-cap stocks in the oil and gas group dropping strongly.