Airbus, the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (CCIFV) and local NGO Gaia Nature Conversation (Gaia), have jointly launched the "Community Forest" project in the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve.

The retail prices of petrol rose in the latest adjustment on August 11 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam need to understand more about development trends and legal regulations related to e-commerce activities, and proactively tap cross-border e-commerce opportunities brought by new generation free trade agreements (FTAs), said insiders.

The Standing Board of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee has basically agreed with a research project for the construction of the Can Gio international container transshipment port submitted by the Party civil affairs committee of the city People's Committee, with a note on minimising negative impacts on the ecological environment and people's life during the implementation phase.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced its permission for Vietnam to export fresh husked coconut to the country.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,837 VND/USD on August 11, up 11 VND from the previous day.

The world trade centres of Binh Duong New City, India’s Mumbai and China’s Shenyang signed memoranda of understanding on economic and trade cooperation, as part the 2023 Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the World Trade Centres Association (WTCA) in the southern province of Binh Duong on August 10.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 10 asked ministries, agencies, and localities to prepare plans to exploit the new development space created by major highways and roads when he chaired a meeting of the State steering committee for national key transport projects.

The World Bank forecasts that Vietnam’s economy will grow 4.7% in 2023, and accelerate to 5.5% in 2024 and 6.0% in 2025.

The Vietnam International Logistics Exhibition (VILOG) 2023, the first of its kind, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on August 10.

The Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (iDEA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), in coordination with Amazon Global Selling and Hanoi's Department of Industry and Trade, on August 10 organised a workshop to discuss measures to support local enterprises export through e-commerce.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau is exerting efforts to promote and increase the efficiency of international integration with a vision to 2030.

The 2023 Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the World Trade Centres Association (WTCA) opened in the southern province of Binh Duong on August 10 under the theme of “Transforming WTC operations in the digital age”.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has attracted 328 tourism projects with a total investment of over 380 trillion VND (16 billion USD), the provincial Department of Tourism reported.

Trade Counselor in Mexico and Panama Luu Van Khang has advised Vietnamese businesses to carefully study their partners, following a range of trade frauds in Latin America in which firms from the Southeast Asian nation were victimised.

The northern border province of Lang Son is continuing to upgrade the digital border gate model, moving towards building a smart border gate.

Supporting industries play a significant role in the economic restructuring towards industrialisation and modernisation, contributing to enhancing labour productivity, competitive capacity, and value creation, and increasing the contribution of the processing and manufacturing industries to the wider economy.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) has maintained a high progress of production and business, with all targets overfulfilled by between 3 and 28%.

About 91% of German companies are planning to expand their investment in Vietnam, according to a survey conducted by the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce (AHK) in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade held a conference in Hanoi on August 9 to announce the national plannings in the fields of energy and mining for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050.