Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

If you’re a woman in Vietnam looking for lingerie, you need look no further than the new Noyyo store.

The owners of well souvenir brands seem to “forget” to make the products for popular tourists, while they have been only targeting medium class travelers. Small production workshops can make low cost products, but they do not fit travelers’ taste.

Hundreds of millions of dong are paid to the CEOs who work in the “hot business fields” such as finance and banking, power and oil and gas.

The US has urged Vietnam to intensify its crack-down on intellectual property right infringements.

Chinese businessmen have been, through different ways, doing trade illegally in Vietnam, thus causing chaos to the market and ravaging the agricultural production. This has been attributed to the loopholes existing in the Vietnamese laws.

Business optimism in Vietnam fell dramatically in the first quarter even as improving optimism in major economies offers hope for global recovery, according to accounting and advisory firm Grant Thornton.

Convenience, stable prices and consecutive promotion campaigns have helped modern retail channels attract more customers, with year-on-year turnover growth of 20-25 per cent in HCM City.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel iterated in HCM City on Wednesday that German companies would flock to Vietnam to sound out opportunities, especially in high-tech, environment-friendly sectors seen as vital for Vietnam's sustainable development.

Vietnam is losing its frontrunner magnet to foreign investors to other regional countries as foreign business chambers and associations said the country's old macroeconomic problems coupled with global uncertainties have made it difficult for their member companies to do business.

As Vietnam fights to beat back raging inflation, many of its small and mid-sized businesses - disadvantaged even in good times - are struggling to survive the battle.

Vietnam and Myanmar have agreed to increase cooperation in many areas, including agriculture, fisheries, financial-banking sector, aviation, telecommunication, oil and gas, mining, electricity equipment, automobile, construction and trade and investment.

The Vietnam Trade Office under the Embassy of Vietnam in Spain has just recommended Vietnamese exporters to carefully study Spanish partners first before signing contracts with them to avoid being cheated.

HO CHI MINH CITY - Nguyen Duc Tai was on a mission one sweltering January morning in Vietnam's commercial capital, Ho Chi Minh City. Flush with cash from his annual bonus, he wanted to buy his wife a new mobile phone, a gift for the coming Tet lunar new year holidays.

The first Vietnam Supermarket in Cambodia will open on December 29, creating advantageous condition for domestic businesses to sell and advertise Vietnamese goods to people in this neighboring country.