Business

With President Obama’ upcoming trip to East Asia next month to give a much needed push to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade agreement, Vietnamese export of catfish to the US is unwillingly back on the negotiation table.

The finance and trade ministries will set up delegations to inspect dairy production and trading companies after these companies submitted proposals to increase the prices of their products.

Vietnam and Indonesia need to strengthen cooperation in such potential areas as trade, investment and tourism, aiming to raise two-way trade to US$10 billion in the coming time.

An International Processing, Filling and Packaging Exhibition and Conference is taking place in HCM City from March 4-6, introducing the latest advances in the plastic industry.

Pham Nhat Vuong, founder and chairman of conglomerate Vingroup, remains the sole Vietnamese cited in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s richest people.

With International Women's Day fast approaching, people are flocking to supermarkets and shops to buy gifts for their loved ones.

Peugeot's 308 picked up the Car of the Year award Monday, a boost for the troubled car company that recently had to be rescued by the French state and China's Dongfeng.

Asian stocks tumbled Monday as tensions over Russia's military advance into Ukraine and the impact of possible sanctions by Western governments intensified.

Gas prices have been cut by VND31,000 (USD1.46) per 12-kilo canister beginning March 1, a company official said.

Deputy Minister of Construction has had to explain circular 16, which has been blamed for cheating home-buyers.

Renowned US business magazine Forbes has announced the list of the year’s top 50 businesswomen in Asia, including three Vietnamese.

The Vietnam Asset Management Company plans to purchase VND10 trillion of non-performing loans (NPLs) from credit organisations in the first quarter of 2014 in an effort to avert a debt default.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged ministries, sectors and localities to speed up the restructuring of state-owned enterprises following the approved plan, determined to make clear progress in 2014.

The ministers discussed regional economic issues, agreeing on 2014 priorities towards the establishment of an ASEAN Economic Community and the completion of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership by 2015.

Nearly 400 workers from a South Korean company in Binh Phuoc Province accused the firm of not paying their salaries for three months.

The State Bank of Vietnam has banned the use of the virtual currency, Bitcoin, for all domestic commercial banks.

Since the introduction of the Galaxy S5 by Samsung in a presentation style reminiscent of Steve Jobs' at the Mobile World Congress in Spain last Monday, the media is abuzz about what is cool and what is missing

The central province of Ha Tinh on February 26 launched a new travel route linking it and Thailand’s Sakon Nakhon province.

Police in Hanoi and HCM City announced added suspicions of dubious activities at Phuc Thinh Company, a subsidiary of Rung Toan Cau.