VnExpress, an online newspaper, has opened an online shop to sell iPhones, while The Gioi Di Dong, a mobile phone distribution chain, has decided to sell vegetable and meat. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile phones with QWERTY keyboards have gradually disappeared from the Vietnamese market as manufacturers have stopped making the products and customers are no longer interested in them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Wind-power projects, which require high investment capital, remain unpopular as EVN pays a low rate for electrical power. 

VietNamNet Bridge - More Vietnamese startups have received huge investments from foreign investors in recent months.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is expected to have 1 million businesses by 2020 as targeted by the government, but economists warn that companies won’t be able to grow in a stifling business environment.

Analysts have noted a growing tendency that computer manufacturers are trying to provide products serving specific needs of hi-tech fans. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Escuela Nueva (VNEN) is considered an innovative teaching method, but many parents  have opposed its use.

VietNamNet Bridge - Formosa, the Taiwanese investor, which is building a steel complex in Vung Ang Economic Zone in Ha Tinh province, plans to build an oil refinery in the second phase of the project development.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many foreign-invested projects in textile, paper, dying, steel and other polluting industries have been licensed recently, raising concerns that Vietnam would become a ‘pollution paradise’.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Confirming that its coffee products in the market contain soybeans, a representative of Nestle Vietnam said the proportion of ingredients was a "business secret’.

VietNamNet Bridge - Issuing corporate bonds was not the typical method used by banks to mobilize capital in the past, but that has changed. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts have noted signs of a decrease in imports from China, while imports from South Korea rose by 7.9 percent in the first six months of the year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese are turning their back on Chinese cars for several reasons, including low quality, design copies and vulnerability.

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more Vietnamese firms, especially technology startups, are registering their businesses in Singapore to avoid complicated administrative procedures in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - There have been signs of an agricultural growth slowdown in recent years, which experts warned about eight years ago. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese conglomerates are buying foreign companies in support industries to implement their strategy to squeeze into global supply chains.

VietNamNet Bridge - The granting of licenses to Formosa and Lee & Man to discharge waste water appears to have violated the 2015 Environmental Protection Law and the 2013 Water Natural Resources Law.  

The oil price keeps dropping dramatically, leading to a decrease in Vietnam’s state budget revenue. Meanwhile, other indicators that measure the health of the national economy all show worrying signs.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has great advantages for agricultural production, but in the last 10 years, domestic enterprises have been focusing on the services sector and abandoning the field.