Technology applications have played an important role in helping the food and beverage (F&B) market in Vietnam get back on track after two years of challenges due to the pandemic, experts have said.

VOV.VN - Cold Foods Festival - a traditional festival of people in some Asian countries, including Vietnam - is celebrated on the third day of the third lunar month to pay respect to ancestors.

A consulting session on measures to further promote Vietnam's export to the Republic of Korea (RoK) was held in the northern province of Hung Yen on March 29.

Vietnam has become a big supplier of agricultural products for the Japanese market and Asia in general, but ample room remains for the country to boost export to Japan, as Vietnamese goods now now account for only 3% of Japan’s total import value, heard a workshop on March 29.

VOV.VN - The recent surges in the price of food and petrol has led to the consumer price index (CPI) to rise by 1.92% in the first quarter of the year while core inflation also soared by 0.81%, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on March 29.

As fruit and vegetable exports to China face difficulties, many Vietnamese enterprises have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in systems and processing plants to sell their products in Europe and the US.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN has hailed the efforts by Volker Turk, UN Under Secretary General for Policy in developing the “Common Agenda Report" which has been recently discussed by UN member countries.

Batches of agro-forestry-aquatic products of Vietnam have been shipped to the US in the first two months, offering chances for the country to accelerate exports to a major but challenging market of the world.

There remains great potential for Vietnam and Malaysia to promote economic and trade cooperation, especially in information and communication technology (ICT), infrastructure investment, digital economy and Halal foods.

Vietnam is looking forward to Malaysia’s support to develop Halal food industry, contributing to lifting the bilateral trade to US$18 billion by 2025, Ministry of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien told his Malaysian counterpart Mohamed Azmin Ali during their recent meeting in Hanoi.