VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, during his meeting with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah in Indonesia on September 6, proposed that Vietnam and Brunei soon negotiate and sign an inter-governmental agreement on rice trade, to help ensure national food security in their respective countries.

VOV.VN - Rice prices in exporting countries, including Thailand and Vietnam, have increased about 20% since India restricted the export of some types of rice, tightening global supply.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Trung made a fact-finding trip to the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on August 30 to examine its preparations for hosting the Vietnam Rice Festival 2023 this December.

VOV.VN - The rising prices of petrol and domestic rice in line with global prices have pushed Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) during the eight-month period to 3.1% on-year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) on August 29.

VOV.VN - The export price of Vietnamese rice remains the highest in the world after India, the world's largest rice exporter, continued to apply an export tax of 20% on parboiled rice, according to details given by the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

Prices of Vietnam’s exported rice are still the highest in the world, with that of 5% broken rice reaching US$638 per tonne, and 25% broken rice US$623 per tonne, according to the Vietnam Food Associaion.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and the UK reviewed the efficiency of their free trade agreement (UKVFTA) since its enforcement at the second meeting of the Vietnam – UK Trade Committee on the UKFTA held in Hanoi on August 24.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced the list of 210 businesses that are eligible to export rice.

VOV.VN - The export price of Vietnamese rice has seen a sudden increase after a decline, while the selling price of Thai rice continued to fall, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on August 15 issued a directive on developing rice export markets and stabilising the domestic market amidst unpredictable changes in the global rice market to implement the Prime Minister's instruction on promoting rice production and sustainable export, ensuring national food security.