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Enjoying a close relationship, Vietnam and Malaysia have had a lot of potential for mutual development, Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia Nguyen Hong Thao has said.

The Philippine trade, which for the past 20 years focused on its traditional markets – US, Europe, Japan and China – has now shifted to ASEAN, making it a must for Filipino enterprises to take advantage of the ASEAN trading regime by 2015.

Vietnam is targeting to apply sustainable production methods on 300,000ha of coffee by 2015, delegates has told a forum in Ho Chi Minh City.

The southern province of Bac Lieu earned 294 million USD from seafood exports in the first 10 months of this year, a year-on-year rise of eight percent, and equivalent to 83 percent of its planned figure.

A project on the sustainable pangasius supply chain in Vietnam is expected to help boost the sector. Report by the Vietnam Economic News.

Vietnam, one of the world’s leading rice exporters , has lowered bar for its rice export for 2013 to between 7-7.2 million tonnes from the targeted 7.5 million tonnes and is striving to open new markets . The Vietnam Economic News reports.

Thailand’s export to Saudi Arabia has increased 21 percent in the first 4 months of this year, partly due to a backlog of undelivered orders during last year’s flood as well as rising demand.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has warned of upcoming challenges in finding industrial export contracts due to financial difficulties in key export markets such as the EU and US.

Vietnam’s Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Nice city of France have signed an agreement on their twin relations during a France working visit by Can Tho senior officials from Sept. 24 to Oct. 2.

The General Statistics Office has estimated that the country had a trade deficit of 800 million USD in August after gaining a trade surplus last month for the first time since 2009.