he departure of the former owners of Big C and Metro Cash & Carry supermarkets is expected to intensify competition in the retail field.

Real estate firms’ shares have become more attractive to investors as the property market recovery is expected to reap big profits.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) says that Formosa is about to begin operating six out of 23 chimneys on a trial basis.

Many industrial zones (IZs) have been built in the Mekong Delta and more will be built in accordance with approved plans, but some IZs have been left idle. 

Seven months after the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was officially established, the Vietnamese market is flooded with Thai and Malaysian goods. But Vietnamese goods are still largely absent from the ASEAN market.

The fact that Chinese businesses play tricks to obtain land in ‘sensitive areas’ in Vietnam has raised concerns about security and national defence.

Airports Corporation of Vietnam's (ACV) transition to a joint stock company may affect aviation security, some experts believe. 

Local planning and investment departments have released a series of warrants looking for foreign investors after discovering that they had disappeared from their given addresses.

Chinese traders buy farm produce from Vietnamese businesses, but don’t pay tax. As a result, VASEP has sent a dispatch to the Ministry of Finance, proposing to tax Chinese traders.

Local newspapers have reported that Apple had been looking for investment locations in Danang City.