Vietnam maintained its position as the world’s 4th largest motorcycle market despite a double-digit drop in June sale, according to motorcyclesdata.com website.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several foreign businesses are attentive to recent developments and want to shift their investments into Viet Nam as they see big opportunities of big Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Free Trade Agreements

While heat waves are making life miserable in the country’s south, it is cool in the northwestern upland where temperatures range from 20 to 28 degrees Celsius, so it is a great hideaway for those wanting to escape the hot summer.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam continued to attract further investment from ASEAN countries this year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Foreign Investment Agency.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – International food chains are penetrating the local market in droves, especially fast-food restaurants that can be conspicuously spotted on the major streets in HCMC.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to purchase one million tonnes of rice in reserve beginning March 15 in an effort to maintain paddy prices in the local market and help prevent Mekong farmers

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese advertising market grew strongly in 2013, with television channels still dominating the market, although they are competing with one another fiercely to lure customers,

Following the “fellow-countrymen,” McDonald’s will surely turn up in Vietnam in February 2014. Other well-known foreign brands, including  Anheuser-Busch InBev and Dairy Queen will also arrive.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tobacco producer Vinataba-Philip Morris has begun legal action against Can Tho Department of Customs after disputing a tax assessment on imports related to licensing rights.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Massive Chinese buy-ups of pre-processed shrimp for export and processing at home have left the processing and export market in disarray.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese detergent manufacturers have been courageously struggling with foreign ones to regain the home market. However, they have not succeeded.

VietNamNet Bridge – More smuggled gold has been launched onto the local market due to the widening gap between local and global gold prices in recent times,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of smartphones in Vietnam had reached the highest level so far in the third quarter of this year, with considerable market shares belonging to local companies, market research company IDC Vietnam reports.