Having products retailed at foreign distribution chains is a good way to bring Vietnamese goods to the world market. But domestic companies still find it difficult to do. 

Local authorities have proposed adding tens of golf course projects to the program on golf course development, a move many economists oppose.   

A Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) report has found that most domestic logistics firms are small or very small with limited financial capability.

Vietnamese and foreign convenience stores are rushing to open more shops, use more technologies and provide more services in the retail market.

While some automobile assemblers have stopped domestic production and shifted to importing products, others have poured more money into production lines in Vietnam.

After winning bids to sell rice to Indonesia and the Philippines, Vietnamese exporters are attending a bid to sell rice to the Republic of Korea (RoK) and preparing for another contract with the Philippines.

Many travel firms, after making heavy investments in online tourism, are earning increasingly high revenue. 

Vietnamese products, which have been struggling to compete with Chinese, Thai and Korean goods, now have to compete with Japanese goods as well.

Sugar companies have once again shouted for help as the volume of inventory is increasing rapidly, while the domestic market is flooded with smuggled sugar.

Agriculture is the livelihood of 70% of Vietnamese. However, high prices, unequal quality, and the lack of information about products have all made it difficult to compete with Thai products of the same kinds in international and domestic markets.