Business

The 2013 Gold Star Award was presented to 200 outstanding brands across 29 sectors for their product quality and social responsibility in Hanoi on September 2.

Several hydropower investors in Vietnam have been struggling to sell their investments as a result of inefficient business practices.

Sellers in top robusta producer Vietnam may offer more beans from the new crop, expected to be abundant, while Thai sugar premiums could rise as millers offset weakness in New York futures, dealers said on Monday.

The Vietnam Food Association has proposed the government allow businesses to purchase an additional 300,000 tonnes of rice from farmers to stabilise its prices in the domestic market.

High demands of instant noodles in Vietnam have brought both opportunities and challenges to the producers.

After one customer was chagred VND1.03 million for parking her car at Noi Bai International Airport for four days, even aviation officials were surprised.

Industry and trade sectors of 14 cities and provinces along the banks of the Red River have agreed to strengthen their cooperation and make full use of regional connectivity to attract more investment.

The VNPT Technology Company has launched its smartphone, which has a reasonable price but still has many of the functions of this type of product.

More than 900 businesses have registered to participate in the annual sales promotion month in Ho Chi Minh City next month, 10 percent more than last year.

A high-level discussion will be held on September 5 at the Daewoo Hotel in Hanoi concerning Japan’s role in Vietnam’s industrialisation process.

Four public interest companies accused of underpaying employees will be further investigated.

Thailand will soon grant a certificate of geographical indication to Vietnam’s Buon Me Thuot coffee trademark, said Jutathip Vuthiparum from the Thailand Intellectual Property Department.

The 12th quarterly EuroCham Business Climate Index survey released on August 27 shows that business confidence and outlook among European businesses in Vietnam remain unchanged from the last mark at around the 50 percent.

The leaders of four public interest companies in HCM City have been accused of embezzlement from employees' salaries.

Microsoft on Tuesday began sending a revamped version of Windows to makers of computers, smartphones or tablets powered by the software.

The US remained Vietnam’s largest goods consumer, importing more than US$13 billion worth of goods over the past seven months (18 percent of Vietnam’s total export value), according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Information Centre.

Vietnam received more than 677,000 foreign arrivals in the early days of August, up 22% against the same month last year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

Yen The free-range chicken – a speciality of Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang– will be awarded with the ASEAN BESTFOOD title in Singapore on September 9-11.

The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technical Institute has developed 21 new coffee varieties that are disease resistant and have high yields.