VOV.VN - Local and export sales of cement dipped 0.7% in volume and 15.7% in value for the five-month period leading up to June of 2016, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Vietnam should complete labour standards and relations in order to fulfill its commitments to employment and trade union in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to which the country is a signatory, heard a workshop in the central city of Da Nang on June 21.

VOV.VN - Around 15 exhibitors from Belgium are demonstrating the latest in technologically advanced smart clothing at an international garment trade fair that opened on June 21 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - By June 15, Ho Chi Minh City had exported 7.4 million ornamental fishes to get US$7 million, up 13% in volume and 32% in value against the same period last year, according to the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD).

Gardeners in the northern province of Bac Giang are now in the mid-harvest season of litchi, the province’s specialty.

Steel demand in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam are expected to maintain a growth rate of 6% next year despite exposure to China’s steel exports, according to World Steel Association (WSA).

Vietnam raked in US$6.37 billion from exporting computers, electronics and spare parts in the first five months of this year, a year-on-year rise of 6%, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The Vietnam Pangasius Association (VPA) will take various measures to achieve the stable and sustainable development of tra fish between now and 2019, said its new Chairman Duong Nghia Quoc at the VPA’s second Congress in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on June 19. 

VOV.VN - A recent national cashew forum in Hanoi sponsored by the Vietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas) focusing on ways to promote sustainability of the industry, attracted hundreds of stakeholders.

Analysts have noted that equitized state-owned enterprises (SOEs) tend to choose  conglomerates with powerful financial capability - real estate developers or financiers - which do not have relations to their core business fields, as their strategic shareholders.