VOV.VN - Vietnamese shoppers are set to spend an estimated US$45 million on Online Friday this year, the organizers have announced.

VOV.VN - Cauliflower, sea asparagus, Kiwano melons, purple carrots, Jabuticaba and turnip greens are just a few of the special and unique fruit and vegetables rarely found on the market.

VOV.VN - A seminar was held in Hanoi on August 18 gathering a large number of local businessmen and government officials to discuss ways to stimulate trade and investment with the Middle Eastern and African economies.

VOV.VN - As the Vinamilk brand increases in market share so has the demand for quality breed cows from Australia, the US and New Zealand to ensure the bloodlines are bred to produce the highest quality milk.

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

The export growth target of 10% for 2016 is unlikely to be achieved if no breakthrough solution is taken, experts have said, noting challenges face the country such as technical barriers and trade protection measures under new-generation free trade agreements set to be signed this year.

VOV.VN - Thailand based Siam City Cement Public Company (SCCC) has agreed to purchase a 65% stake in cement manufacturer Holcim (Vietnam) (HVL) from French headquartered LafargeHolcim, according to an SCCC statement.

VOV.VN - A five-day Thai trade fair has opened at the Hanoi Friendship Culture Palace located in the Hoan Kiem District on August 18 with companies displaying top-notch brands in more than 100 exhibition booths. 

A Ministry of Transport unit, the Thang Long Project Management Board, has asked the ministry to examine its feasibility study for the My Thuan-Can Tho Expressway’s first phase.

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

Many Vietnamese enterprises and associations in Kharkov and Odessa cities of Ukraine are displaying their products at the country’s traditional trade fair Sorochinsky Yarmarok in central province of Poltava, which has been organised annually in mid-August since the 18th century.

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.

VOV.VN - Made in Vietnam spices, food and consumer goods have become more and more familiar to Russian people, said Ambassador to Russia Nguyen Thanh Son at a seminar in Hanoi on August 17 to promote Hanoi Goods Week in Moscow.

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. 

Fraser & Neave Ltd. (F&N), which is controlled by Thai beer tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, has announced its ambition to acquire more shares in Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) as a part of its plans to expand its presence in Southeast Asia.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, in an annual speech at the People’s Consultative Assembly, said the government has achieved 96% of the goals set out in its 12 economic stimulus packages.

Several domestic retailers have been actively changing their business strategies to improve their distribution channels after big foreign supermarkets such as Big C and Metro increased discount levels to 20-25%.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) expects to submit to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc a project to restructure credit institutions between 2016 and 2020 in Q3 of 2016.

Longan growers should apply technologies in production to improve their fruit’s quality and value, heard attendees at a conference to promote longan consumption held in the northern Hung Yen Province’s Khoai Chau District on August 17.

The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science’s Anti-Dumping Commission has officially launched an investigation into the alleged dumping and subsidisation of aluminium extrusions imported from Malaysia and Vietnam. 

The property market tends to stagnate in August, a normal thing for this time of the year as August coincides with the seventh lunar month, traditionally called the Ghost Month. 

Vietnam will restructure its export rice products towards increasing the proportion of high-quality, high-value, organic, highly-nutritious rice and products made from rice. 

Nguyen Xuan Cuong, newly-appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to the Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper about his resolve to reorganise the farming sector so that farmers would earn higher incomes.

VOV.VN -Many large exporters of seafood and other actors in the marine fish and aquaculture segments of the economy have begun to shift their focus away from the developed markets of the globe back to the domestic market.

VOV.VN - Italy is the biggest importer of Vietnam tuna in the EU, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

VOV.VN - Chairman of TCC Thailand, billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi has revealed a plan to merge Metro Vietnam to Big C Thailand, according to Investment Newspaper online.

Vietnamese businesses should consider investing in agriculture and information technology (IT) in Japan, Chief Representative of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) in Hanoi Atsusuke Kawada has suggested.

It is unclear whether the Vung Ro refinery project in the central province of Phu Yen will be implemented this year, even though both the authorities of Phu Yen province and the leaders of Vung Ro Petroleum Ltd. said they were determined to start the project in 2016.

A multibillion-dollar oil refinery to begin operating next year in north-central Vietnam will cause millions of dollars in loss to state coffers every year, the Department of State Budget has said.

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.