VOV.VN - Several businesses based in Ho Chi Minh City are getting involved in international e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and Alibaba as a means of connecting with foreign customers and increasing their revenue, especially amid the complex nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.

More Vietnamese firms have successfully sealed export orders in recent times with the support of e-commerce platforms like Alibaba.com and Amazon.

The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) and Alibaba.com, the global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform of the Alibaba Group, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on supporting Vietnamese firms to boost online export and organised an international e-commerce conference in Hanoi on March 16.

The growing demand for imported products in Vietnam and other markets will fuel runaway growth for cross-border e-commerce. However, the speed of expansion could also impose a burden on the government as it looks to efficiently supervise the fresh business model.

VOV.VN - Amid the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, boosting exports via giant retail platform Amazon is considered to be an effective solution that firms from Dak Lak province can use to enter global value chains, according to insiders.

VOV.VN - Food, beverages, and agricultural products can be viewed as the commodity groups which have enjoyed robust growth through e-commerce platforms, with each of them anticipated to see plenty of room for further development, according to industry insiders.

VOV.VN - The Zhejiang International Trade Exhibition kicked off on December 3 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, with an array of the bestChinese products on show.

Despite market gyrations, Southeast Asia and Vietnam especially remain on the radar of high-calibre foreign investors.