After five years of implementation, Nescafé Plan- a cooperative programme between the world's leading nutrition, health, and wellness company Nestlé, Western Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute (WASI), and other partners- has contributed to improving the quality and raising coffee yield by 14 per cent per hectare (ha). 

While experts remain pessimistic about Vietnam’s automobile industry, pointing out that its great efforts in the last several decades have been in vain, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) still puts high hopes on the industry’s development.

Though the number of apartments sold in HCMC this year has surged, experts have warned of a housing oversupply in the city due to a race among property firms to invest in new projects.

The local coffee industry should reform production and processing of coffee products to gain added value from those products, experts said.

(VOV) - The formation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at the end of this year could create massive motivation for the Vietnamese domestic economy as measured by the gross national product (GNP), say experts.

The increase in foreign investment and the constrictions on foreign companies to develop in Vietnam through representative offices or having commercial presence in the country is forecasted to result in an increasing demand for international standard “offices for lease”. 

Jollibee has begun franchising in Vietnam, marking a new strategy in the country for the Philippine fast food chain.

(VOV) - Rice exports to Russia saw a sudden increase in the 10 months leading up to November, up 2.02 times in volume and nearly 80% in value, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The dairy market has steadily expanded, while the competition is getting fiercer, heating up the milk market. 

Foreign retailers have been flocking to Vietnam because they see the great potential in a 90-million-consumer market. However, Vietnam has not been an easy playing field even for experienced players.