Economy

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has commended the tax sector for doing a good job in reshuffling its apparatus and urged the sector to continue with reform of tax procedures.

Little rainfall is forecast across the country in March and April, the remaining months of the dry season, particularly in the central region.

The industrial economy is increasingly occupying a high position in the economic structure of Duc Hoa district of Long An province, thereby it makes an important contribution to the local development.

Corporate earnings were forecast to slow in 2020 as the economy became more vulnerable to external factors, data firms and securities businesses forecast.

Industrial zones in Long An province increasingly play an important role in socio-economic development.

Services and retail are forecast to attract a large amount of Japanese direct investment into Vietnam this year.

Vietnam could cease to have an operating train system in less than two weeks unless a funding issue at the Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) is resolved, an official has said.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development - Le Quoc Doanh headed the inspection team on drought and saltwater intrusion prevention in the Mekong River Delta region.

Prime Minister - Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a national online conference on "Promoting the development of agricultural product processing industry and agricultural mechanization".

The Vietnam Dairy Products JSC signed a dairy export contract worth 20 million USD at Gulfood, one of the world’s largest exhibitions, in Dubai from February 16-20.

Long An has nearly 12,000 hectares of dragon fruit. Currently, the dragon fruit is in the harvest season but its consumption is facing many difficulties.

Since the novel coronavirus epidemic will surely affect exports to China, diversifying markets is an urgent requirement for Vietnamese rice exporters, experts have said.