More tech urged for longan farms
More tech urged for longan farms

Longan growers should apply technologies in production to improve their fruit’s quality and value, heard attendees at a conference to promote longan consumption held in the northern Hung Yen Province’s Khoai Chau District on August 17.

More tech urged for longan farms
Ghost month hampers real estate sales
Ghost month hampers real estate sales

The property market tends to stagnate in August, a normal thing for this time of the year as August coincides with the seventh lunar month, traditionally called the Ghost Month. 

Ghost month hampers real estate sales
Vietnam shifts towards high-quality rice export
Vietnam shifts towards high-quality rice export

Vietnam will restructure its export rice products towards increasing the proportion of high-quality, high-value, organic, highly-nutritious rice and products made from rice. 

Vietnam shifts towards high-quality rice export
Woodchip exports tumble in first six months
Woodchip exports tumble in first six months

Vietnam shipped abroad 1.8 million tonnes of woodchip in the first half of this year, making up of only 61% of the same period last year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported. 

Woodchip exports tumble in first six months
Seafood shifts focus back to the domestic market
Seafood shifts focus back to the domestic market

VOV.VN -Many large exporters of seafood and other actors in the marine fish and aquaculture segments of the economy have begun to shift their focus away from the developed markets of the globe back to the domestic market.

Seafood shifts focus back to the domestic market
Textile & garment sector needs new development strategy
Textile & garment sector needs new development strategy

The textile and garment industry development planning to 2020 with a vision towards 2030 has set to earn an export value of US$20 billion by 2020, which is seen as a setback when it already achieved the value of US$27.5 billion in 2015 and expects US$31 billion this year.

Textile & garment sector needs new development strategy
Vietnamese goods still cannot penetrate ASEAN market
Vietnamese goods still cannot penetrate ASEAN market

Seven months after the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was officially established, the Vietnamese market is flooded with Thai and Malaysian goods. But Vietnamese goods are still largely absent from the ASEAN market.

Vietnamese goods still cannot penetrate ASEAN market
Hanoitourist plans US$500mn horse racetrack in Hanoi
Hanoitourist plans US$500mn horse racetrack in Hanoi

The Hanoi Tourist Corporation (Hanoitourist) and the Republic of Korea’s Global Consultant Network Company Limited (GCN) have signed an investment cooperation agreement for building a five-star complex in Hanoi's Soc Son district that will include a horse racetrack.

Hanoitourist plans US$500mn horse racetrack in Hanoi
Who will take care of aviation security?
Who will take care of aviation security?

Airports Corporation of Vietnam's (ACV) transition to a joint stock company may affect aviation security, some experts believe. 

Who will take care of aviation security?
Popular items people buy for ‘ghost month’
Popular items people buy for ‘ghost month’

VOV.VN - Vietnamese people typically refrain from buying during ‘ghost month’ (the seventh month of the Lunar Calendar), however, here are some of the more popular items they purchase during the festive season. 

Popular items people buy for ‘ghost month’