Export activities recorded encouraging figures in January, and more growth is on the way, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Turnover from export-import activities and foreign currency service of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho exceeded 2 billion USD in 2018 - a record high in the last 15 years.

Vietnam earned 220 million USD from shipping 175,000 tonnes of rubber abroad in January, up 10.8 percent in value and 28.9 percent in volume compared to the same month last year.

The central province of Nghe An will cooperate with investors to build infrastructure in local industrial parks with the aim of filling those IPs with secondary investors in 2019.

Some banks are putting assets secured with non-performing loans worth hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong up for auction in the first days of the Lunar New Year to speed up the resolution of bad debts.

Registering for and protecting geographical indication (GI) for Vietnamese specialities are needed to protect, add value to unique products and promote their exports, experts have said.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 22,915 VND per USD on February 15, up 14 VND from the previous day (February 14).

Hanoi’s first metro project, the Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway, will officially run in April following many delays, according to Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong.

Artpresto Vietnam Co., Ltd, a member of Japan’s Bandai Namco Group, started construction on a packaging factory on February 14 in the northern province of Ha Nam.

Vietnam’s securities market has plenty of opportunities to be promoted from a frontier market to an emerging market this year.

More than 12 trillion VND (514.72 million USD) has been invested in a solar power project in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, said Director of the provincial Department of Planning and Investment Vo Sa.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue chaired a consultation conference in the southern province of Binh Duong on February 14 to discuss orientations towards refining mechanisms and policies on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the new context.

There is not enough ground to say that the Government of Vietnam intervenes in the domestic prices of the carbon steel welded pipe industry, according to the final determination by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) Nguyen Dinh Cung suggested ministries and ministerial-level agencies simplify business conditions and remove ones which are unclear, too vague, and unfeasible before the third quarter of 2019.

The Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) has become the first Vietnamese lender to be named on the list of the top 300 most valuable banking brands, as recently announced by the Brand Finance.

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on February 14 handed over nine investment licences worth over 9.9 trillion VND (425.7 million USD) and nearly 163 million USD to investors.

Four Vietnamese companies have sent a dossier to the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV) to ask for an anti-dumping investigation into medium density fibreboard products from Thailand and Malaysia.

Vietnam’s shrimp exports to the Republic of Korea are likely to rise 30 percent year on year to approximately 500 million USD in 2019, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has predicted.

Despite an abundance of new options to buy groceries online, Vietnamese consumers still overwhelmingly prefer to shop in stores, the Vietnamese High Quality Product Business Association said on February 14.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 14 attended a ceremony to begin the construction of a coastal road in the northern province of Thai Binh.