Business

Thirty enterprises have received the Ho Chi Minh City Golden Brand Award from the municipal People’s Committee for their outstanding achievements in building and developing brands for products and services.

Toyota and Lexus Vietnam have announced to recall over 13,000 cars due to fuel pump errors.

Many car rental service providers in Hanoi have reported slow business compared to the same period last year when they had lots of customers in lunar December.

Counterfeit money transactions have become more rampant as the Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday nears.

The northern province of Ha Giang is looking to promote the local tourism industry through digital transformation and smart services in partnership with mobile carrier Mobifone and the National Administration of Tourism.

Land prices will maintain or just slightly increase in the two biggest cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City this year as supply improves according to the Vietnam Association of Realtors.

Up to 1,200 flights will be operated daily during the Tet Holiday as travel demand surges.

Dong Tao chicken, which is an expensive delicacy in Vietnam, is often sold at very high prices on the Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday.

Hanoi will carry out an array of industry and trade development measures with a view to building Hanoi into an international trade hub in the region and the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has sent directions to localities about the labelling of home-grown peach trees in an attempt to avoid exploiting wild trees in Son La Province.

The Vietnam Travel Aviation Company Limited (Vietravel Airlines), Vietnam’s sixth carrier, will open ticket sales for commercial flights starting from January 19.

Foxconn Singapore PTE Ltd will build a 270-million USD plant to produce laptops and tablets at Quang Chau industrial park in the northern province of Bac Giang.

The Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company has exported 10 containers of seed milk to China early this year and is expected to ship five more containers of sweetened condensed milk products to China in the near future.

Quang Binh People's Committee signed a memorandum and investment decision to 35 projects with a total investment cost of VND92trn (USD3.9bn) at its investment promotion conference for this year.

The Vietnam Railways Corporation may lose all of its VND3.2trn (USD138m) equity if Covid-19 pandemic continues in 2021 and 2022.

The local coffee industry has been urged to develop its value chain, strengthen connectivity between production and trade, whilst developing export markets and building brands to achieve the export target of US$6 billion by 2030.

Vietnam’s agricultural and aquatic products are expected to see a big jump in exports to the United Kingdom on the back of the newly-enforced UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement.

Trung An High-Tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company will export 1,600 tonnes of high-value fragrant rice to Singapore and Malaysia, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced.

Plastic producers are complaining about the sharp rise in container hire charges which are affecting their export activities.