Vietnam’s leather shoe and apparel exports are forecast to pick up as international manufacturers will have to shift their production orders from China to Vietnam to avoid the adverse impacts of the U.S.-China trade war.

Multichannel sales platform developer Sapo will coordinate with its e-commerce partners to organize the annual Mobile E-commerce Day (MEDay) in HCMC on July 20 to discuss new trends and share experience in selling products through mobile devices.

Nestlé Vietnam, which has long been known as a major beverage maker, launched a Maggi fish sauce on July 10, marking its entry into the local fish sauce market.

The domestic business sector earned roughly US$33.1 billion in outbound sales in the first half of the year, increasing by 19.9% year-on-year, according to a newly released report by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on its website.

As many as five million workers in Vietnam are at high risk of losing their jobs by 2020 because of the boom in artificial intelligence, which may replace laborers with robots, according to a recent study by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

"So You Think You Can Dance Vietnam 2015" winner Do Hai Anh and other dancers from HCM City-based Unicorn Art Co Ltd will present “Yen Lam” (Peaceful blue) dance performance at the eighth DanzINC – International Dancers & Choreographers’ Residency Festival in Singapore in mid-August.

Hoi An City in the central province of Quang Nam has been listed by CNN as one of the 16 most relaxing places in the world.

The Anam, a new 117-villa and 96-room resort overlooking the pristine Long Beach in central Vietnam, has been selected to join Traveller Made, an exclusive network of the world’s top luxury properties and tourism operators.

The developer of the IFind promotion program collection app and a dozen providers of retail support services have announced a package worth VND21 billion (US$908,700) to support 700 domestic retailers in marketing and online sales.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to carry out the International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program in Vietnam to make it possible for the SEA nation to launch direct air service to the world’s largest economy next year.