(VOV) - The Tra Bac Joint Stock Corporation (TRABACO) has exported its first 100 tonnes of activated carbon for 2015 made from coconut husks to the Japanese market. 

The Vietnam International Food Industry Exhibition 2015 (2015 Vietnam Food Expo) will be held from May 13-16 in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade), under the Ministry of Trade.

The southern province of Binh Duong and the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) Group have agreed to expand the industrial park, which will include urban and social services in the future.

(VOV) - The Embassy of Vietnam in Egypt in collaboration with the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce organized a workshop on January 26 in Cairo aimed at soliciting investment in the Southeast Asian nation.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s seafood exports to the US for calendar year 2014 jumped 25.6% on-year, tallying in at US$1.709 billion, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) and Boeing signed a Memorandum of Collaboration yesterday in support of Vietnam receiving category 1 approval by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Vietnam imported medicines worth US$2 billion last year, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 8.3%, chinhphu.vn website reports.

Developers of infrastructure for industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ) in HCMC are piloting schemes to construct multi-storey workshop buildings for small and medium manufacturers, according to The Saigon Times Daily.

Vietnam earned an estimated US$1.95 billion from exports of agro-forestry-fishery products in January, a year-on-year decline of 13.8%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A US$12 million coffee processing plant was officially launched by the German group Neumann Gruppe on January 26 in the An Phuoc Industrial Zone, Long Thanh district, southern Dong Nai province.

(VOV) - By January 20, foreign businesses had invested US$392.18 million in 44 new projects and US$271.26 million in 19 existed ones, a year-on-year increase of 67.1%.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s livestock sector has always been considered by most leading economists to be particularly vulnerable to regional and global trade liberalization, largely because it is dominated by smallholder production systems typified by the traditional family farm.

(VOV) - Lower priced foreign beef has caused imports to surge 65% on-year to 87,300 tonnes for the ten months leading up to February 2015, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Department of Livestock Production.

(VOV) -Construction work on a Republic of Korea-invested garment factory kicked off on January 25 in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu. 

(VOV) - Vietnam’s total imports and exports in the first half of January increased by 6.2% to US$12.11 billion compared to the same period last year, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

(VOV) - A Korean business has decided to invest VND20 billion in the development of a high-quality rice cultivation area in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh.

(VOV) - A delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh are actively touting Vietnam’s attractiveness as a good investment  destination  at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. 

(VOV) - Vietnam and Germany have agreed to step up cooperation in agricultural vocational training and signed an agreement to that effect on January 23 at an ongoing international trade fair in Berlin. 

(VOV) -More than 2,000 representatives of the macadamia nut industry gathered at the nation’s first ever show showcasing it on January 24 at the Long Vu Place in Hanoi.

(VOV) - Work has started on construction of a new main passenger terminal building and apron at the Cat Bi international airport in Hai Phong city.

(VOV) - The final round of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) negotiations took place on January 19-23 in Brussels, Belgium.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided Vietnam with two loans totalling US$165 million to improve secondary education for ethnic minority students in the country’s poorest areas, and upgrade rural infrastructure in six central provinces.

Ho Chi Minh City had a good start for 2015 with strong and stable growth in January, heard a regular meeting on January 23 of the municipal People’s Committee.

(VOV) - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat headed a Vietnamese delegation to attend a high-ranking dialogue of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda for Food Security in Davos on January 23.

(VOV) -Dung Quat oil refinery plant is set to expand its operation to increase production capacity from the current 6.5 million tonnes to 8.5 million tonnes in the next few years, announced the management board of Dung Quat industrial zone (IZ) in central Quang Ngai province on January 23.

Northern Bac Giang province has eyed export earnings of US$2.61 billion in 2015, up 24 percent against 2014, according to the provincial Department of Trade and Industry.

(VOV) - To fully capitalize on the benefits proffered by the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), business enterprises should make a concerted effort to improve their national, regional and global competitiveness. 

A delegation from the Dutch Emmen Region, headed by Stenden University Principal Hanny Van Geffen, worked with key officials of Binh Duong province on January 22 to examine opportunities for cooperation between the two localities.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Norway Le Thi Tuyet Mai attended activities during the Norwegian seafood fair on January 20-21 with a view to promoting bilateral collaboration in the fisheries sector.

The need to strengthen public investment management and settle outstanding debts from the State budget and Government bonds was highlighted in an extensive inspection report published by the Government Inspectorate of Vietnam (GIV).