Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and President of the National Council of Switzerland Martin Candinas had a meeting in Hanoi on June 30, sharing the view that the two countries should further step up economic, trade, and investment links.

The Dong Thap provincial People's Committee and the Consulate General of India in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28 held a conference to promote trade and investment cooperation between India and the Mekong Delta province.

VOV.VN - Several travel businesses in Da Lat, a resort town in the Central Highland of Lam Dong, are offering visa-free tours departing from Lien Khuong airport and heading to the Republic of Korea (RoK), with the first flights set to start in early July.

The EU's ban on deforestation-linked imports are causing concern among Vietnamese producers as the requirements to trace commodities back to their origin can push up costs and entail finding alternative suppliers.

VOV.VN - The Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of Ho Chi Minh City (ITPC) and the Vietnamese Trade Office in China on June 16 co-hosted a seminar on improving the quality of food products exported to the China, the biggest export market of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is the Czech Republic's most important partner in Asia, Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Edvard Kozusnik said at the Czech-Vietnam Business Forum held on June 15, in Prague.

Vietnam will develop and diversify rice export markets with a reasonable, stable, and effective scale, market and product structure under a strategy recently approved by the Prime Minister.

Amid the increasing use of tobacco, especially e-cigarettes, Vietnam has rolled out measures to minimise tobacco harms.

Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will increase the frequency of flights between Hanoi and Singapore from one to two flights a day on all weekdays from June 15 to meet the travel demand between the two countries.

VOV.VN - Despite the total import export turnover standing at an estimated US$262.54 billion, still down 14.7% over the same period from last year, the import and export turnover in May showed signs of improvement, according to figures released by the General Statistics Office (GSO).