Việt Nam is seeking to diversify rice export markets and sustain growth after the Philippines extended its import ban until the end of 2025.

Market dynamics have shifted, with information-driven volatility manifesting through fluctuating gains across sectors.

In the series of talks, the Vietnamese and US delegations made major progress on multiple issues, including services, digital trade, agriculture, technical barriers to trade (TBT), and sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS), while narrowing differences on outstanding matters.

The US side reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening cooperation with Việt Nam in security, energy, logistics, supply chains and manufacturing.

Vingroup plans to issue a maximum of 1,625 bonds with a face value of US$200,000 per bond. The total expected issuance value is $325 million.

The ‘International Exhibition on Industrial Machinery, Equipment, Technology and Products in HCM City’ – VINAMAC Expo 2025 – will take place at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre from November 27 to 29, attracting 800 enterprises from more than 15 countries and territories, the organisers announced on November 13.

This is not only the biggest online shopping event of the year, but also spreads the message of smart, responsible and sustainable consumption, contributing to promoting the strong development of Việt Nam's digital economy in the new era.

The forum highlights Việt Nam must shift from viewing ageing as a welfare burden to seeing older people as an economic asset.

Between 2023 and 2025, Điện Biên approved 44 new projects worth more than VNĐ13.6 trillion.

Party General Secretary Tô Lâm affirmed that Việt Nam welcomes foreign investors and will continue improving the business environment to ensure fairness, transparency and equal treatment.

Since Việt Nam and the US launched reciprocal trade negotiations earlier this year, Việt Nam has committed to importing a range of American products.

The items exempt from reciprocal tariffs include coffee and tea, tropical fruits and juices, cocoa and spices, bananas, citrus fruits, tomatoes and beef.

The brand has just secured a three-star provincial rating under Vietnam’s “One Commune, One Product” initiative.

Poland is seeking to strengthen agricultural and food trade with Việt Nam and deepen ties between businesses from both countries, Polish officials said at a press conference and business meeting in HCM City on November 14.

It is targeting average GRDP growth of 10–10.5 per cent a year during the period and per capita income of US$8,000–8,500, an urbanisation rate of above 50 per cent, and the reduction of poverty under new criteria by 2030.

The city has reaffirmed the goal of developing Long Sơn Commune into a “green and modern petrochemical centre in the South”.

ASEAN’s rapidly growing consumer market continues to present major opportunities for Vietnamese enterprises, though firms are increasingly required to meet higher technical and origin standards.

Việt Nam is now at the ‘golden time’ to develop a low-altitude economy, creating an entirely new economy based on aerospace and UAV technology, FPT Group’s Chief Technology Officer Vũ Anh Tú stated at the Vietnam Low-Altitude Economy Forum 2025 in Hà Nội on November 14.

Foreign investors continued their net selling streak, with a value of nearly VNĐ672.2 billion sold on the main bourse.

Việt Nam’s investment landscape is entering a period of rapid transformation, driven by new legal frameworks, strong macroeconomic fundamentals, and an ambitious national push to elevate its sovereign credit rating, attendees heard at a workshop titled 'The Allure of Asset Classes' that was held in Hà Nội on Thursday.