Vietnamese enterprises need to improve their social and environmental performance to secure their position in global supply chains, a seminar heard in Ho Chi Minh City last week.

Chinese utilities and traders have stepped up purchases of Australian coal in February, encouraged by signs of further policy relaxation after trade partially resumed last month following a two-year hiatus.

As a key food manufacturer in Southeast Asia and sharing a maritime border with Indonesia – the world’s most populous Muslim nation, Vietnam is uniquely placed to benefit from rising demand for halal foods. Here’s how.

To deploy a national plan on aquaculture development in the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2045, in August 2022, the Prime Minister approved a national programme for aquaculture development in the 2021-2030 period.

Japan kept its assessment of the economy unchanged in February as consumer spending remained on a recovery trend despite soft exports and factory output due to the global economic slowdown.

Swiss daily Tribune de Gèneve has recently published an article hailing Vietnam as a new destination for foreign companies.

The reopening of China’s border on January 8 is of significance to Vietnamese exporters, as Vietnamese agricultural products have posted bustling export to this billion-people market.

The European Green Deal will likely affect several Vietnamese industries, depending on the nature of the industry and the specific measures introduced under the deal, a senior trade official has said.

After many years of being passive in the price of imported raw materials and the price of cashew kernels for export, Vietnam’s cashew industry is trying to change the situation by adjusting import, production, and export plans.

Accession will give the group global influence to shape rules of trade