Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Myanmar and Vietnam agreed to try to boost bilateral trade to US$500 million by 2015, Vietnam News reported last week.

Vietnam and Portugal show great potential for boosting cooperation and lifting two-way trade turnover to a new level, says Portuguese ambassador to Vietnam Jorge Torres-Pereira.

HANOI -- Starbucks will open its first Vietnam cafe early next month in Ho Chi Minh City as part of its strategy to expand across Asia, the company said Thursday.

HCMC - The two-way trade between Vietnam and Myanmar as of end-October had reached over US$186 million, which is forecast to grow to US$200 million by the end of the year.

HCMC – The most recent HSBC Trade Confidence Index shows that confidence among Vietnamese traders has fallen off slightly in the last six months, dropping from a score of 115 to 110.

HANOI - Vietnam is aiming to reduce its trade deficit with China by exporting more farm produce and curbing imports of smuggled goods from its neighbor, Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang said Monday.

Vietnam’s exports to China across the border gates have dropped sharply since March, 2012. Meanwhile, the situation is believed to last to the end of October at least.

Myanmar President Thein Sein pledged to boost trade with Vietnam as he travels through Southeast Asia after agreeing to allow observers from the region to monitor April 1 by-elections.

Many companies that participated in HCM City's Tet price-stabilisation programme are struggling to liquidate the stocks they had built up following unusually sluggish demand during the year's biggest festival.

Information security officers from the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security have discovered three people using others’ personal information illegally on the Internet for profit.

The Russian ambassador to Vietnam said at a press briefing in Hanoi Wednesday that developing relations with Vietnam will be a priority in Russia’s diplomatic policies in Asia in the years to come.

Vietnam's trade deficit in 2012 is expected to stay at $13 billion, equal to about 12 percent of total exports, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

British diplomats have painted a bright future for trade and investment between the United Kingdom and Vietnam as major investments and commercial deals by companies from their country have started coming or are in the pipeline.

In the first eight months of this year, Vietnam's goods import from China is estimated to have increased by over $3 billion from the same period last year, to touch $15.2 billion, according to the general Department of Vietnam Customs.

A top US trade official on Tuesday said he urged Vietnam to undo a number of trade-restrictive policies aimed at curbing inflation and reducing the country's current account deficit.