Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh yesterday told US Secretary of State John Kerry Viet Nam would push forward with projects to decontaminate areas at Da Nang and Bien Hoa airports saturated with the dioxin Agent Orange.

 Twenty years after the US and Viet Nam established diplomatic relations, bilateral trade turnover has risen 80-fold, and is expected to boom after the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, currently under negotiations, takes effect.

Twenty years after the US and Viet Nam established diplomatic relations, bilateral trade turnover has risen 80-fold, and is expected to boom after the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, currently under negotiations, takes effect.

VietNamNet Bridge - The demand from Vietnam’s key export markets has decreased significantly, while the dollar has appreciated sharply, causing textile and garment export growth to slow down.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ngo Duc Manh, Deputy Chairman of The National Assembly’s External Affairs Committee, shines a light on negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Vietnam’s on-going preparations to optimise efficiency

 Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh looks back over Vietnam - US economic relations in the 20 years since normalization.

Billions of dollars of foreign direct investment have poured into the textile and garment sector in anticipation of great opportunities to be brought by the TPP Agreement (Trans Pacific Partnership).

Vietnamese beef and litchis will be seriously affected by TPP Agreement in import and export markets. While beef will have to struggle to hold the home market, litchis will have to struggle to penetrate more foreign markets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Since the normalisation of relations 20 years ago, economic relations between Viet Nam and the US have developed strongly in many sectors, and are expected to grow even further in the future,

 VietNamNet Bridge – HSBC Global Research team has warned that the inefficient allocation of resources could sap productivity of Vietnam and leave the country caught in the low-middle income trap

VietNamNet Bridge – Those who assert that the secrets to the future always lie in the past have a bit of a problem when it comes to pontificating on the future of Vietnamese business with the US.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and US Trade Representative Michael Froman expressed a desire to accelerate an early conclusion of the TPP negotiations at a July 6 meeting as part of Trong's ongoing trip to the US.

VietNamNet Bridge - All Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) members, including Vietnam, look at China, which is now considering joining the free trade area, with suspicious eyes.

Trade between Vietnam and the US has grown exponentially under a bilateral trade pact that went into force in late 2001 and totalled nearly US$11,035 billion as the end of February this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - The possibility of China becoming a member of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement remains open. Experts say China’s membership, to some extent, would affect Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius told reporters in Can Tho City on June 8 that Vietnam’s Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is expected to visit the U.S. next month.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement is expected to add 30 per cent to Vietnam's GDP over the next 10 years,

VietNamNet Bridge - What will happen if local authorities all turn down textile investment projects for fear of environmental pollution?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Thanh Van, head of the Animal Breeding Department, tells Kinh Te and Do Thi newspaper about opportunities and problems the sector will face when Viet Nam joins the TPP.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Forty years after the war ended, relations between Viet Nam and the United States have grown significantly, especially in trade. In 2014, Viet Nam became the top ASEAN exporter to the US with a record trade surplus