Vietnam is among the emerging market having high transactional growth in merger and acquisition (M&A) activities, according to a latest report released by the Baker McKenzie law firm. 

Business representatives met with customs and taxation officials in Ho Chi Minh City on June 29 to resolve longstanding concerns about tax refunds and customs regulations.

Take-away fast food is booming at the moment as Vietnamese companies team-up with foreign fast food giants to expand their businesses.

Farmers should focus on market-oriented agricultural production to boost the sector’s growth, said Minister of Agricultural and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat at the monthly cabinet meeting on June 29 in Hanoi. 

Vietnam’s seafood farming and fishing industry is expecting to produce 6.4 million tonnes in 2015, according to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

The Japanese population offers a reliable source of current and future demand for short- and long-term accommodations, with growing interest among Japanese companies to open units in Vietnam.

Land rents are rising too quickly, according to members of the business community who met in Hanoi at a conference entitled "Property Rights and Enterprise Development".

Vietnam's tea producers should meet Fairtrade International's certification standards to increase the competitive quality of tea products and improve their export value, said experts.

Coffee farming households in five Vietnamese Central Highland provinces have recently benefitted from the project ‘More coffee with less water- towards a reduction of the blue water footprint in coffee production’.

Gold prices fell to their lowest level in the last five years in Vietnam on June 25.