Farming of seaweed, a promising seafood product, will be encouraged, the Directorate of Fisheries has said.

The fish sauce market is witnessing increasingly fierce competition between many famous brand names that use both industrial and traditional methods like Unilever, Masan Consumer, Phu Quoc and Phan Thiet.

The local mining industry saw a decline in production growth in the first seven months of this year, which is likely to extend to the end of the year, said the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has announced it will sponsor a series of public workshops addressing new laws and regulations governing Vietnam and Laos cross border trade.

Vietnam exported 2.93 million tonnes of rice with a value of US$1.32 billion in the first seven months of the year, a year-on-year plunge of 18.4% in volume and 14.4% in value, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Algeria and Indonesia will intensify cooperation in industry, following a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Jakarta on August 4.

VOV.VN - Trade ministers from Vietnam and the Philippines have held an informal meeting on the sidelines of the 48th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting (AEM 48), reaching consensus on extending the time for negotiating a new rice trading agreement. 

Canada and Vietnam will have a lot of opportunities to bolster their cooperation stemming from their membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.

While domestic passenger transport witnessed a high growth rate in the first six months of the year, the railways had unsatisfactory business results. This shows that air services have attracted passengers who travel on trains and cars.

Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Joo Hyung-hwan has hailed the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 as a great turning point in regional economic integration.