VOV.VN - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has granted approval to a project aimed at restructuring the Vietnamese rice sector by 2025 and 2030, with a primary focus on improving the sector’s added value.

VOV.VN - Local businesses have been advised to diversify their markets to intensify import and export activities this year, alongside maximising the benefits of free trade agreements (FTAs), restructuring export products, developing stronger brands, whilst grasping market information and changes in the policies of importers, according to insiders.

Vietnam raked in US$2.6 billion from exports of textiles and garments in January 2021, up 3.3% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Switzerland Le Linh Lan attended a webinar on Vietnam as a main speaker at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW ) on February 16.

The seaport and logistics industry was forecast to grow significantly on the prospect of global trade recovery in 2021 when the vaccine to prevent COVID-19 is administered worldwide.

VOV.VN - The garment and footwear sectors successfully maintained their export growth momentum in January with footwear exports witnessing a surge of 26.4% to US$1.8 billion against the same period from last year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Russian e-newspaper Rusvesna (Russia Spring) has run an article by Dr. Alexander Korolev from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) saying that Vietnam has gained high prestige in the region and the world with success in many areas in 2020.

Vietnam has managed to maintain its development orientations, while enjoying economic benefits from foreign partners such as the US and European Union (EU) member countries, according to Dinna Prapto Raharja from Binus University of Indonesia.

The website of India’s Vivekananda International Fund (VIF) has run an article by senior researcher Brig Vinod Anand highlighting achievements of Vietnam under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam as well as the Vietnam-India relationship after the party’s 13th National Congress.

Foreign enterprises poured a considerable amount of capital into manufacturing and processing projects in the first half of January, according to the head of the investment office at the Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza), Tran Viet Ha.