High transportation costs are reducing the competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural products.

Rubber exports are expected to reach 1.2-1.25 million tonnes of this year, a year-on-year increase of 5.5-10%, according to the Vietnam Rubber Association.

A digital economy is an inevitable step for development as the traditional economy is being saturated, said Nguyen Thanh Hung, deputy minister of information and communications at the 2016 Internet Day event in Hanoi.

India-based Tata Coffee, a subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages, has released plans to set up a greenfield freeze-dried instant coffee plant in Vietnam with the total investment capital of $50 million. The plans were stated in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

The property and retail conglomerate Vingroup JSC (Vingroup) has denied information that it plans to sell its supermarket chain VinMart to the US convenience store giant 7-Eleven, local media reported.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed an agreement on December 21 to provide transaction advisory services to the Ministry of Transport (MOT) for Ho Chi Minh City’s Third Ring Road project.

VOV.VN - A free trade agreement expected to come into force by 2018 holds great potential to boost retail sales of clothing, footwear and textiles produced in Vietnam in the 28 member countries of the EU, say trade experts.

Bank loans for the property sector are estimated at some VND150 trillion (US$6.7 billion) this year, a 14.2% pickup from a year earlier, according the HCMC Real Estate Association (HoREA).

Getting rid of a loss-making shipyard member unit is now the top priority of Vinalines, despite the huge potential losses.

The Da Nang Investment Support and Promotion Board and Japan’s Gifu Shinkin bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation, investment promotion for small- and medium-sized enterprises from Japan in Da Nang city.