Vietnam will be able to access a huge market of 3.4 billion people when it joins the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

Vingroup has signed strategic partnership agreements in project design, consultancy and management with the world's eight leading engineering and construction groups on July 17.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has flexibly managed the interest rate policy to suit the market and currency exchange demand and support businesses, stated SBV Deputy Governor Nguyen Thi Hong.

State budget collection for the next five years is expected to make up 20%-21% of the GDP, Deputy Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan said at a meeting of the Ministry’s Party Committee on July 17.

(VOV) -The Vietnam-Thailand joint committee on bilateral trade will meet in Bangkok on July 20 to discuss ways to boost agricultural trade.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s clothing and textile exports to the 12 Pacific Rim countries currently negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have thrived in the five months leading up to June, spiking nearly 70% against last year’s corresponding period. 

(VOV) - Traditionally, cattle were not reared for their meat in Vietnam but were principally draught animals, culled and used for food at the end of their useful working lives.

Government officials and economic experts came together for a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on July 16 to share their opinions on a plan to increase the dissemination of information about international economic integration. 

A string of recent moves to reform mechanisms and tax and customs policies have resulted in encouraging outcomes, evidenced by a number of improved business indexes.

An international conference was held in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on July 16 to discuss measures to improve the Vietnamese sugar industry’s competitiveness competency as Vietnam and neighbouring countries are speeding up the regional integration process. 

Despite consumers increasingly placing their trust in products made in Vietnam, a number of barriers are holding local products back on the domestic market, heard a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on July 16. 

(VOV) - The eighth Vietnam International Electrical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (Vietnam ETE) and the fifth International Exhibition on Power Saving Products and Green Energies (Enertec Expo) will take place at Tan Binh Exhibition Centre in Ho Chi Minh city from July 22-25.

The northern port city of Haiphong granted investment certificates to 20 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth US$240.67 million in industrial zones and economic zones in the first six months of the year.

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) should develop long-term strategies, renew technology and equipment and management, President Truong Tan Sang said at a meeting with outstanding businesspeople in Hanoi on July 16.

Vietnam had to overcome serious difficulties in the thorny path to bring basa or catfish (Pangasius bocourti), to the US about 10 years ago. 

Taxpaying is apparently not all beer and skittles for Sabeco, as Vietnam’s largest brewery is in dispute with state auditors over a huge amount of tax arrears that the company has repeatedly claimed was unreasonably calculated.

Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, better known as PetroVietnam, has announced that it planned to produce 8.37 million metric tons of crude oil in the second half of the year, local media reported.

(VOV) - A recent inspection acknowledged that all kinds of Lam Dong’s Oolong tea exported to Taiwan meet quality standards.

A transport e-commerce market place that enables all major stakeholders in the freight transport business to easily link up is expected to be begin its initial operating period in 2016.

Google has appointed Nguyen Phuong Anh the new marketing head for Vietnam, the American multinational technology company said in an announcement recently.

Several domestic and foreign-invested cotton projects are rushing to begin operating in anticipation of competing across borders after Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) go into affect.

The value of the US dollar against the dong will increase at least 3 per cent this year, the Vietcombank Securities Co (VCBS) has forecast.

Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Limited Liability Company (NSRP) is considering doubling the capacity of its refinery complex, scheduled to start operations in July 2017, to 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) to meet growing domestic demand, said NSRP General Director Kazutoshi Shimmura. 

The Southeast Asia Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SeABank) has been deemed the “Best Corporate Services Bank” in Vietnam for 2015 by the UK-based International Finance Magazine (IFM), the Lao Dong Newspaper reported on July 16.

Over 203 million tonnes of goods passed through sea ports nationwide in the first half of this year, reaching 57.8% of the set plan for the year and representing a year-on-year increase of 10.43%. 

A bevy of workers are carefully sorting and grading an enormous pile of litchis at a packing house in northern Vietnam. The best of the bunch will go to China.

(VOV) - Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Vietnam Forum 2015 organising board announced at a July 16 press conference that the event is scheduled to take place on  August 6.  

California wishes to forge comprehensive links with Ho Chi Minh City on the basis of the increasing relations between Vietnam and the US, Governor of California Edmund Jerry Brown stated during his reception for the Secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee Le Thanh Hai in Oakland on July 14 (US time). 

Plastic exports to the European market have felt the effects of the continuous decline of the euro over the past six months.

Vietnamese businesses should be well prepared emotionally and physically to tap opportunities from the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), experts said at a dialogue on July 16.