Vietnamese mobile phone brands can be compared with a mass of vegetable sprouts. Seeds have been sowed on the fertile soil and sprouts have been springing up like mushroom. However, the sprouts would fall down just after a rain.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese exporters have been trying to squeeze into foreign markets by exporting unseasonable fruits to avoid other redoubtable rivals.  

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Most of the people in the Vo Cuong ward of Bac Ninh province have given up farming and shifted to trade Chinese farm produce which can bring higher profits to them.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam once exported 30,300 tons of rice to Japan in 2012. However, the door to the market has still been closed to Vietnamese exporters. Not one ton more has been exported since then.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While the battle among green tea manufacturers is described as a noisy fight, the competition among supplemental nutrition drink manufacturers has been going quietly, but very fiercely.

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The Vietnamese yoghurt market in 2012 was worth VND5.7 trillion, while the figure is expected to soar to VND12.4 trillion in 2013. This is the most attractive market segment of the dairy industry.

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The state management agencies kept silent when something unusual happened in the foreign currency market. As a result, people had no other choice than making a wild guess about the market prospect.

The President of Vietnam Craft Villages Association said the sense of artisans is limited and they do not have a global vision, while the artisans complained that they were not supported by the state so they could do business only on emotions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Craft villages – the door out of poverty for rural workers - are dying or their names are only in the memory.

 Despite the domestic stock market being shaken by sizeable withdrawals of foreign capital, many analysts believe Viet Nam will remain an attractive destination for foreign investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese fashion brands have got worn out in the rivalry with the word’s famous brands -- to scramble the cake worth $3 billion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication has decided to amend a series of policies to drive the mobile service market to a more sustainable development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The market of goods and services for children is really a big cake for every enterprise, which is worth $5 billion. But it has not fully exploited by domestic enterprises.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The cars to be imported from ASEAN countries under the mode of complete built units (CBU) would reduce to 50 percent from 2014.

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The voice of the farmers does not have a rightful place in policies. Inequality in giving the State's priority and support for the agricultural sector compared with other sectors still exists, commented VietNamNet’s readers.