National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has launched an e-commerce platform called VNAMALL (http://vnamall.vietnamairlines.com/), offering discounted deals on more than 300 products as part of its Black Friday promotional event.

Vietnam is expected to be the fastest-growing e-commerce market in Southeast Asia by 2026, with e-commerce Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) reaching US$56 billion by 2026, 4.5 times the estimated value of 2021, according to a report by Facebook and Bain & Company.

VOV.VN - Approximately 140 Vietnamese firms and over 100 Chinese partners participated in a virtual conference held on November 19 to increase bilateral trade promotion.

E-commerce platforms have launched sale promotion programs for Single’s Day November 11, the biggest shopping event of the year, promising big sales on millions of items.

A programme initiated by Google in association with the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) of Vietnam has provided 650,000 people with digital skills training, 30% higher than the plan.

AI Hack Bootcamp 2021 – a programme that seeks AI solutions for e-commerce - was launched at a ceremony jointly held by the Saigon Hi-tech Park Incubation Centre and the Vietnam E-Commerce Association on October 1.

The Government has issued Decree No.85/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementing several articles of Decree No.52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce involving foreign traders.

Better regulations are expected to come into play to facilitate the growth of Vietnam’s e-commerce logistics sector.

Vietnam’s exporters should pay more attention to expanding sales on e-commerce platforms besides trade promotion activities in particular in order to expand export of ago-forestry-aquaculture products to China and its Guangdong province, according to the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s task force in collaboration with the Viettel Post Joint Stock Corporation (Viettel Post) have launched a shopping service on Viettel Post’s Voso.vn e-commerce platform to help people access sources of food without leaving their homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.