Kenda to invest US$160 million in Dong Nai tyre factory

Various measures will be rolled out from now to 2025 to fine tune science and technology organisations and perfect the legal foundation for state management of science, technology and innovation.

(VEN) - The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has created major opportunities for Vietnamese seafood companies, but many Vietnamese firms are not sufficiently proactive and flexible in taking advantage of the deal.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has teamed up with Saigon-Ha Noi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) in expanding access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially women-owned businesses.

Airbus committed to expanding supply chain in Vietnam

Representatives of more than 50 US companies will visit Vietnam from March 21-22 to discuss investment and business opportunities under an annual programme hosted by the US-ASEAN Business Council.

(VEN) - Vietnam's exports to the EU have seen positive growth more than two years after the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) took effect in August 2020. Vietnam Economic News’ Nguyen Hoa spoke with Nguyen Anh Duong, Head of the Central Institute for Economic Management’s (CIEM) Department for General Economic Studies about these developments.

(VEN) - Vietnam is looking back at the first three years of the Pacific rim trade deal known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with a sense of accomplishment, but also frustration at unmet challenges.

(VEN) - The United Kingdom is the world’s fourth largest importer, but Vietnam’s share accounts for less than one percent of its total import value, signaling ample room for increased Vietnamese exports to this market.

(VEN) - First Dien pomelos from the northern province of Hoa Binh are now available on the shelves of Longdan supermarkets in the UK, welcomed by the Vietnamese community in the country and local consumers.

(VEN) - Xoan singing is an ancient art performed during the first two months of the lunar year and designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a valuable intangible cultural heritage of the northern Vietnamese province of Phu Tho. It is based on the Vietnamese practice of ancestor worship and dates back to the period of the 18 Hung kings who ruled northern Vietnam from 2879-258 BCE. However, some music researchers believe that Xoan singing emerged much later, during the Later Le Dynasty (1428-1789 AD), as the lyrics bear literary forms and styles of the period.