Australian retailers and manufacturers are rejigging their business models and reviewing strategies to sell goods into China amid confusion over a threatened government crackdown on e-commerce platforms.

Last year’s drought devastated crops and caused serious losses for farmers in the Mekong Delta. This year, authorities are restructuring crops, building dykes and erecting sluices in anticipation of continuing weather disasters.  

Sense Market, a newly established shopping center and food court, has attracted lots of locals and foreign tourists. 

Mr. Pham Van Thinh, CEO of Deloitte Vietnam, talks about the impact of the US's withdrawal from the TPP and the challenges Vietnamese businesses face in a changing global economy.

VietNamNet Bridge - A new class of young rich people, born in the 1980s and 1990s, are earning billions of dong a month from the internet.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though Vietnam has a legal framework to control exotic species, dangerous species are still used in the country because of loopholes in legal documents and mismanagement.

A survey found that only 32 percent of businesses have confidence in the competitiveness of their products, while others are worried about the increased presence of foreign goods.

VietNamNet Bridge - Some people say that university graduates are so unprepared for work that they don’t even know how to fill out job applications and compile official documents. 

Vu Thanh Tu Anh, Research Director at the Fulbright Economics Teaching Programme in Viet Nam, tells Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam that Viet Nam should no longer give priority to certain industrial products.

In early 2017, PHI Group, an investor from the US, unexpectedly announced the purchase of a 51 percent stake of Hoang Minh Chau, called the ‘curcumin King’ of  Khoai Chau area in Hung Yen province. The value of the deal remains a secret.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Ngoc Dong, Vice Minister of Transport, speaks to Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper about his Ministry’s plan to develop a fast, yet safe railway service.

 The Gie Trieng have developed a unique culture while adopting cultural features of other groups in the northern Central Highlands.

Yen Vien Village in Van Ha Commune, Bac Giang Province still has about 300 households making spirits producing some four million litres a year.

A recent study reveals the interesting nuances of Asian leadership on the back of in-depth conversations with 165 C-level executives across nine countries in Asia.

 Travelers have named two of Vietnam’s beaches as being among the best in Asia in a recent survey conducted by global travel site TripAdvisor.

 Four groups of equipment and vehicles must have energy labels, according to a recent decision by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 The Vietnamese Government welcomes stronger cooperation between IT firms of Vietnam and Angola, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam told visiting Angolan Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technologies Jose Carvalho da Rocha. 

 The Vietnam Energy Association joined hands with the association of energy storage industry development from the Republic of Korea to organise an international conference on new technologies in power and renewable energy in Hanoi on March 14.

 The Gout de France/Good France 2017, a global event on the French gastronomy, in Vietnam will bring together chefs from 24 restaurants in Hanoi, Hoi An, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City on March 21.

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) firms operating in Vietnam highly evaluated the reform efforts the government, ministries, sectors and localities have made to create a more favourable and healthier business climate, experts have said.