VietNamNet Bridge - Low-priced Chinese smartphone models have become more popular in the Vietnamese market. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Local newspapers have quoted sources as reporting that UAZ, a large Russian automobile manufacturer, will begin assembling cars in Vietnam by early next year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Global opinion remains sharply divided regarding the ultimate ramifications of the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is an outgrowth of US President Barrack Obama’s rebalance towards Asia foreign policy.

Vietnamese businesses must pay attention to non-tariff measures included in free trade agreements to be able to grab opportunities for promoting exports, experts said.

Vu Van Khuyen, 46, a fish farmer from Ha Long city, is optimistic that his aquaculture farm will make him huge profits this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the least developed of the Trans-Pacific Partnership member nations, Viet Nam is most likely to become the biggest beneficiary of the agreement with an increase in GDP, FDI and exports of manufactured goods,

VietNamNet Bridge - Japanese Aeon, South Korean Lotte and Thai Central have been expanding their operation scale in Vietnam by teaming up with Vietnamese partners to set up joint ventures or swallowing existing retail chains.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Making his third visit to Vietnam on October 19, GE’s chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt showed his eagerness of expanding the global player’s operations in renewable energy, healthcare,

VietNamNet Bridge - The real estate market is not expected to be greatly affected by the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), experts have said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Russian automobile manufacturers are considering setting up factories in Vietnam, which would allow them to enjoy preferential tariffs when exporting cars to the US.

  The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has warned agencies of a boom in textile and garment industrial zones in cities and provinces ahead of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Trans-Pacific Partnership membership is expected to make medicine more expensive in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and 11 other nations reached agreement on October 5 on the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that if ratified will cover two-fifths of the world's economy.

Experts and HCMC Securities Corporation have projected possible impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on certain sectors in Vietnam’s economy after trade ministers of a dozen Pacific Rim countries concluded negotiations

VietNamNet Bridge - Reuters has quoted reliable sources that say TPP member countries plan to sign an agreement not to devalue local currencies to boost their respective exports.

VietNamNet Bridge - The animal feed market has been busy recently with many merger & acquisition deals carried out by major companies.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Quoc Khanh, head of the Vietnamese TPP negotiation delegation, who has just returned to Hanoi after the negotiation in Atlanta ended, talked with VietNamNet about the TPP milestones at the Noi Bai International Airport. 

Vietnamese farmers, who suffered from big losses for a long time due to high input costs and low selling prices, cannot hold out anymore. Cheap chicken imports from the US have dealt a final blow, forcing them to give up farming. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Surveys from several organizations have all concluded that Vietnam is among the most attractive destinations for investors.

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more provinces have been turning down foreign direct investment (FDI) projects that use outdated technologies or cause pollution.