The competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural and aquatic products is weakening compared to that of foreign counterparts in the global market, leading to a dramatic fall in these commodities’ exports so far. 

(VOV) - Vietnam imported 2.87 million tonnes of corn valued at US$622 million in the first five months of this year, up 30% in volume and 17% in value over the corresponding period of last year.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s animal feed industry is likely to achieve stable production in 2015 but transnational companies are driving domestic producers out of the business, leaving many industry leaders to call for tighter regulations by the government.

More than 150 instant food products made of rice are available at supermarkets. The industry has been witnessing a steady high growth rate of 20%-40% per annum in recent years.

(VOV) - Vietnam is rolling out a large number of agricultural foods in an exhibition at Singapore’s largest supermarket chain – NTU FairPrice – in a bid to win over consumers and boost exports.

Vietnamese consumers spent well over half a billion US dollars on smartphones in the first quarter of this year, data from a market tracker shows.

Sugar production – the industry which now enjoys the highest protection level from the State – is expected to ‘die’ when Vietnam cuts the sugar import tariff to five percent in 2018 as committed.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will release a master plan for the development of the macadamia industry by the end of this year. 

Vietnam’s domestic consumer spending has risen in the first five months of 2015, indicating a boost for the country’s economic growth, according to the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper. 

(VOV) - PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation (ticker GAS), engaged in the oil and gas refining and marketing industry, was ranked number one on Forbes top 50 Vietnamese companies list.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s telephone and component exports in the five months leading up to June jumped 18.5% on-year to US$11.8 billion, according to latest statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Over the last twenty years, the Vietnamese property market has come on in leaps and bounds in terms of its professional development.

The Ministry of Commerce has disclosed that a discussion on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Thailand and Pakistan will be held in September. 

(VOV) - Dubai's Emirates airline is offering one-way tickets from HCM City to Paris discounted by as much as 48% to VND16 million, including taxes and surcharges, on flights from June 5 to November 30, 2015.

(VOV) - The first shipment of 500kg of Vietnamese litchi will be sold at Thanh Binh Jeune supermarket on June 4.

(VOV) - Vietnamese fashion is making a play for the bedroom with new collections of under things sporting eye catching designs at value prices rapidly filling the shelves of the nation’s popular discount stores.

Farmers in northern Hung Yen province have reason to cheer as their first batch of longan will be dispatched to the United States shortly. 

The Vietnam consumer confidence index is unchanged at 140.2 in May, well above its long-term average of 135.2, according to research by the ANZ Bank. 

The existence of shopping malls has been threatened by the rise of online shops.

The euro was on the defensive early on June 1 after Greece missed a self-imposed on May 31 deadline for reaching an agreement with its lenders to unlock aid, keeping alive fears of a debt default.

Deposit interest rates are set to rise as growth rate of deposits has been lower than that of credit, according to a report from the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC).

Vietnam boasts a huge potential for the development of convenience shopping outlets, market research company Nielsen Vietnam said in its report released during a roundtable in Hanoi on May 29.

Mobile broadband subscribers in Vietnam are expected to reach 90 million by 2020, given the increasing affordability of smartphones.

Between 60 and 70% of equipment and technologies used at export processing and industrial zones is outdated, resulting in products with low added value, the HCM City People's Committee has said.

(VOV) - With the support of Quang Nam’s agriculture sector, Viet Thang Trade and Import-Export Limited Company has cooperated with local farmers growing Japanese cucumbers, boosting local rural development and sustainable poverty reduction. 

(VOV) - The PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertiliser Company introduced its fertiliser products to Cambodia at a ceremony in Phnom Penh on May 28.

As liquidity increases in the real estate market, opportunities are arising in Ho Chi Minh City’s up-market housing sector.

Trang Tien, located in the heart of Hanoi, near Hoan Kiem Lake, is called the golden land because the land price here is the most expensive in the capital city as well as the country: about VND1 billion (nearly US$50,000/1sq.m).

Bkav Corporation on May 26 launched its first made-in-Vietnam smartphone, Bphone, which in development for more than four years.

Mark Cameron of the UK, who lives and works in Vietnam, believes that he will be able own residential property thanks to the revised Law on Housing, which has removed prior restrictions on foreigners from buying property in the country.