Starbucks will open its first café in Da Nang City on February 3 to celebrate five years of its presence in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the ninth match at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 in England on January 31.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has recently conducted preliminary determinations on dumping and subsidising with respect to certain copper pipe fittings, originating in or exported from Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked ministries and relevant sectors to study the effects on Vietnam of the tax reforms US President Donald Trump signed into law last month.

Southeast Asian (SEA) Games gold medallist Nguyen Anh Tu aims to take the trophy at the Elite Table Tennis Tournament which will be held in Hanoi on February 3-4.

Vietnam’s pepper farmers are on pins and needles as pepper prices continue to decline. The industry, once known for its high profit margins, is in crisis due to unsustainable development, lack of strict control over production and unforeseeable speculation. 

The year 2017 led to an increasing number of maritime mishaps involving fishing and cargo ships in the seas around Vietnam, highlighting the perils seafarers face.

The implementation of tariff reduction to zero per cent under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) from January 1, is an obsession with the Vietnamese sugar industry.

The pepper industry plans to reduce the area under the spice and focus instead on improving quality to ensure long-term growth, a seminar heard in HCM City on January 25.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has warned that businesses must carefully verify information on their business partners from the US before making deposits and payments or doing business as some cases of fraud have been reported recently.