(VOV) - A program was launched in Hanoi on September 18 to promote the export of products from the food processing sector to the European market.

(VOV) - A delegation of 40 businesses from Japan’s Kyushu region has attended a HCM City seminar on September 17 to explore potential business opportunities in Vietnam.

(VOV) - The Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) is prepared to invest in building a milk factory in the US.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong attended the ground-breaking ceremony of a Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in Quang Ngai province on September 13. 

(VOV) -Vietnam currently ranks second in ASEAN in terms of attracting Japanese investors (around 1,200 firms), said Hirotaka Yasuzumi, Managing Director of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Ho Chi Minh City.

(VOV) -The Republic of Korea (RoK) is willing to share its development experience and encourage its businesses to invest in Vietnam.

(VOV) - The HCM City’s People’s Committee granted investment licenses to a number of new Japanese projects worth US$166 million in the city’s industrial parks (IPs), and export and processing zones (EPZs) on September 10.

Kumho Tire, a subsidiary of Korea's Kumho Asiana Group, plans to invest around US$100 million in a factory in Binh Duong Province, Kumho Asiana Group chairman Park Sam-koo told the Korea Times last weekend.

(VOV) - A Vietnam Semiconductor Strategy Summit held in HCM City on September 9-11 is expected to give fresh impetus to the country’s semiconductor industry.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s trade turnover with African, West and South Asia markets hit around US$10.05 billion in seven months, of which US$6.5 billion came from exports (up 49.6%) and US$3.5 billion from imports (up 25.6 %) compared to last year’s figures, according to the Vietnam Customs statistics.