HA NOI — The steel industry is predicted to grow by 12-15 per cent in the next five years, the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) reported at a June 12 workshop in HCM City. Cast iron output is forecast to increase 80 per cent to reach 4.5 million tonnes, while steel billets will jump 47.2 per […]
Read MoreVietnamese coffee exporters, faced with dwindling robusta supplies in the world’s top producer, are paying up to buy beans from international trade houses who scooped up much of the crop early in the season. Local exporters in Vietnam are struggling to find coffee to fulfil their contracts, trade sources said, after farmers sold forward much […]
Read MoreHA NOI — The country’s inflation this year is forecast to reach 2.6 per cent barring fluctuations of prices on world markets and adjustment in the cost of public services, the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC) reported on Monday. In the first five months of the year, the average inflation rate was at 4.47 per […]
Read MoreHANOI, June 8 – Indonesian coffee discounts tightened in robust trade this week, while the Vietnam beans market was quiet due to thin supply and weak demand, traders said on Thursday. Indonesia’s robusta grade 4, 80 defects were traded at a $30 discount per tonne to the July contract, traders in Lampung said, compared with […]
Read MoreMudman Plc, an authorised franchisee of Au Bon Pain bakery chain in Thailand, has obtained the rights to expand the bakery into Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV). The move is to capture increasing demand for lifestyle products, particularly food, among the CLMV market’s growing middle class. An improved economic situation in these countries has […]
Read MoreThe Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Laos and Vietnam have vowed to enhance their coordination mechanisms in order to increase the effectiveness of cooperation. The vow was made at a meeting between high level officials from the two ministries in Vientiane yesterday, with Lao Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ms Khamphao Eunthavanh and her Vietnamese […]
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