With great opportunities and challenges from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which has been in place for over three months, Vietnam has been taking drastic actions to protect local businesses and help them materialise windfalls from the deal.

The timely shift of the pandemic containment strategy helped Vietnam restore economic activity and reduce bottlenecks in the business environment.

Brunei on Thursday expressed support for South Korea's push to join a mega free trade deal in the Asia-Pacific region, Seoul's trade ministry said.

Việt Nam is to tighten inspection of local agricultural products and packaging in a response to recent incidents in which products from the Southeast Asian country were reported to show signs of deliberate tampering with registered trademarks and origins, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

US Congress voted April 7 to suspend permanent normal trade relations, also known as "most favored nation" trade status, with Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, a move that will allow increased duties on US imports of metals and other goods from Russia.

Last week, we published a highly regarded report about Russia’s Pivot to Asia which contained valuable intelligence concerning the impact on Asian markets in China, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Central Asia, the Eurasian Economic Union, India, Pakistan, ASEAN, Japan, and South Korea and illustrate how Ukraine is a component part of a far wider geopolitical struggle between the East and West.

The current scarcity of white meat fish in the UK market is considered a golden opportunity to boost local pangasius (tra fish) exports, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

In the first quarter, realized foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam was estimated at US$4.42 billion, up 7.8 percent over the same period last year. This is the highest level of Q1 in the past five years.

The value of global trade fell 2.8 per cent between February and March as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to a sharp drop in container ship traffic from the two countries, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade deal and bilateral free trade agreements(FTAs) will bring a lot of benefits to Cambodia in the long term, Asian Development Bank (ADB) acting country director for Cambodia Anthony Gill said on Wednesday (April 6).