Economy

The Ministry of Science and Technology has just issued a circular regulating the management of traceability of products and goods.

While air travel becomes more expensive, the railway sector has worked to unlock its tourism potential to meet high travel demand during the upcoming National Reunification Day and May Day.

On April 9, Long An Provincial People's Committee had a meeting and working session with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) delegation on human resource development in Long An province.

In recent years, many farmers in the province have actively changed their crop structure, applied scientific and technical advances to production, gaining high income and contributing to the local socio-economic development.

The Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam Beverage Company kicked off the construction of its biggest factory in the Asia-Pacific region on April 8 at the Huu Thanh Industrial Park in Duc Hoa district, the southern province of Long An.

The Land Law (revised), which expands land use rights for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) and Vietnamese citizens residing abroad, is expected to give a boost to the domestic real estate market.

Vietnam has so far drawn nearly 500 billion USD in registered FDI capital after nearly four decades of opening up its economy, with investment quality improvement considered a key task for a new breakthrough phase ahead.

A draft proposal to increase special consumption tax on alcoholic beverages may hurt the Vietnamese beverage industry's ability to compete on their home turf, putting the entire supply chain at risk, said industry insiders.

With 652,000 tonnes of coffee exported to the EU worth 1.66 billion USD in 2023, Vietnam was the second biggest coffee supplier of the EU in terms of volume and third largest supplier in terms of value.

The US website finance.yahoo.com placed Vietnam 6th among the fastest growing economies in Asia in 2024 in its article published on April 4.

Vietnam's fruit and vegetable export turnover reached an estimated 1.25 billion USD in the first quarter of 2024, up 27% over the same period in 2023, the General Department of Customs has reported.

On April 5, People's Committee of Long An province organized the conference "Preliminary summary of the Winter-Spring crop of 2023 - 2024" in person and online.