Economy

The Ministry of Industry and Trade's Department of E-commerce and the Digital Economy has been cooperating with e-commerce platforms to remove barriers to the transportation of essential goods during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Vietnam ranks 39th among 160 countries and territories, and third in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in logistics performance index, heard a workshop held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade on July 30.

The Covid-19 pandemic has seriously affected the production and business of many enterprises. Many enterprises in Long An province have implemented the motto "3 on site" to prevent and control the epidemic and maintain production.

The Vietnamese real estate developer Nam Long Group has partnered with Japan's Nishi Nippon Railroad Co. Ltd in the EHome Southgate housing project in the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

Digiworld Corporation has released its financial statement for the second quarter of 2021 with outstanding performance.

The Long An People's Committee has just issued a decision to assign the right to register and manage the geographical indication "Ben Ke" and allow the use of the place name "Ben Ke" to register a certification mark for the yams.

On July 28, a special working group led by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development - Tran Thanh Nam had a meeting with the Ben Luc Agricultural Service Cooperative on lemon production and consumption.

Vietnam raked in 16.7 billion USD in foreign direct investment in the first seven months of 2021, down 11.1 percent from the same period last year, data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment shows.

Vietnam's footwear exports brought home 11.27 billion USD from the start of the year to July 15, a year-on-year surge of 28.36 percent, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is working to grant identification codes to all local brackish water shrimp farms from now to September.

In recent years, Long An has paid attention to directing all levels, branches and localities to focus on improving the provincial Public Administration Performance Index..

A strategy for developing domestic trade between 2021 and 2030 has been signed off by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, aiming to raise domestic trade’s proportion in the country’s GDP to 15 - 15.5 percent in the next 10 years.