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.

Vietnam’s tallest building just one project set to benefit from legal changes allowing foreigners to buy houses in the country.

(VOV) - Big C, a grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered in Bangkok, has announced the grand opening of its fifth supercenter Hanoi located in Ha Dong at the Ho Guom Plaza.

The Vietnamese stock market, with its small scale, is unable to absorb large amounts of shares to be sold by equitized state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

(VOV) - Vietnam Consumer Confidence is up 2.9 to 143.1pts in June – a new record high, according to ANZ-Roy Morgan.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) recently said the realization of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015 is not a panacea for agriculture’s sustainability.

(VOV) - Vietnamese businesses joined more than 1,000 others from 39 countries worldwide in the 22nd Southern African International Trade Exhibition (SAITEX) in Johannesburg, South Africa from June 21-23.

Domestic paper businesses have been urged to improve their products' quality and competitiveness when the country enters into Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), experts said. 

(VOV) - Vietnam exports to major African markets like South Africa, Egypt, Tanzania and Senegal obtained a high growth in the first five months of this year, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has taken a series of actions to clear cross-ownership which has existed in the banking system for many years.

(VOV) - Transnational companies are rushing into Vietnam in search of opportunities for growth and their entry into the market is a boon for consumers who benefit from wider choices of products lining retailers’ shelves.

There has been a rising trend of Hanoians buying properties in central and southern provinces.

Viettel has become the only telecommunications enterprise to have significant market power (SMP) in land mobile services in terms of phones, messaging, and the Internet.

Receiving fair trade certifications would give a big advantage to Vietnamese exporters of tea, coffee, cacao, spices and handicrafts in expanding their market, as heard at a recent workshop in Hanoi. 

(VOV) - A pilot program to export fresh lychees into Australia could open up the prospect of substantially increased Vietnamese agricultural exports to the market downunder.

(VOV) - Vietnam will start importing its first fruit and vegetables from Australia on July 1, in a partial easing of an economic ban maintained due to the earlier detection of the fruit fly.

(VOV) - Microsoft has officially launched its first Microsoft Store in Hanoi, which will provide customers with the best Microsoft products including the most popular Lumia Window Phone. 

Vietnamese cannot manufacture products at low costs in Vietnam but can do so in foreign countries.

(VOV) - An egg farm in Tay Ninh province has been selected as an egg supplier of world famous fast-food restaurant chain, McDonald's, in both Vietnam and Malaysia.

Moody's Investors Service said on June 18 the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the Republic of Korea (RoK) is a credit negative for the country as the virus has weakened consumer sentiment in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

The factory of today is on its way to becoming the factory of the past and we shouldn’t be surprised by this.