With weak investments and poor technology, Vietnam is finding it difficult to organize hi-tech agriculture value chains.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) and retailers have been working together in programs to connect producers and distributors, resulting in more sales of Vietnamese-made products and local specialty food items at supermarket chains.

Vietnam’s woodwork industry benefits from ‘clean’ supply sources, not from illegally imported timber from Cambodia, experts have warned.

The prices of some smartphones reached a record high in the year, while shakeups occurred in the industry among leading players.

More flash floods and landslides have occurred in recent years in northern mountainous provinces, causing hundreds of deaths and destroying many houses.

Experts believe that the strong rise of emerging markets will be the highlight of the resort real estate market segment in 2019.

Foreign capital inflow to Vietnam was still higher than outflow by $1.8 billion, or VND41 trillion, an increase of 60 percent over 2017.

Having an estimated value of $33 million, the competition in the food delivery sector is as cutthroat as the ride-hailing market.

Steel, fiber, household-use products and electronics in Vietnam are vulnerable to anti-dumping and anti-countervailing duties imposed by other countries. 

For a small-scale economy, high growth rates will not be enough to create big value, according to economist Tran Dinh Thien.