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The northern province of Bac Giang province has chosen three local products to develop into five-star products this year as part of the One Commune-One Product (OCOP) programme.

Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities are seeking to create favourable conditions for local businesses to develop trademarks and brands to compete with foreign rivals at home and abroad, its leader has said.

A workshop to seek measures to boost the production and export of the Yen The hill chicken products, and orientations for enhancing production of farm products and tourism development, has been organised by the Yen The district People’s Committee, northern Bac Giang province.

Singapore has again topped Asia in terms of intellectual property rights protection since 2015, according to the annual report by the US-based Property Rights Alliance.

Soursop of Hau Giang was granted the certificate of trademark registration “Soursop HauGiang” by the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam at a ceremony held in the Mekong Delta province on June 26.

Vietnam-Russia economic and trade relations have been growing continuously over the past years, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Vietnamese businesses have been urged to change their production and export methods to boost shipments to China – a big but increasingly demanding market for agricultural imports.

Although export revenue of agricultural products has grown in recent years to more than 40 billion USD, expertshave said the figure may rise higher if Vietnamese farm produce can meet the technical standards of import markets, especially developed ones.

The northwestern mountainous province of Son La has been searching for a stable market for its fresh agricultural products during an event underway at Big C Thang Long supercenter in Hanoi until July 27, hoping to make longan its key farm produce.

Experts from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) talked with Vietnamese enterprises on how to protect their intellectual property rights overseas at a seminar in HCM City on March 5.

Vietnam will work harder to raise public awareness of e-filing system in intellectual property registration, which has been put into place by the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam.

Up to 80 percent of enterprises invest less than 5 percent of sales revenue in branding development, undermining the domestic and foreign market share for Vietnamese products.

The second ASEAN-China industry & trade conference, themed “Protecting and developing trademarks,” took place in Nanning city of China’s Guangxi province on September 12.

Trademark registration is important for Vietnamese businesses to protect their trademarks, increase competitiveness with imported goods, and expand their export markets during the integration process.

Vietnam needs to pay attention to the protection of intellectual property (IP) on the domestic market since this is a crucial feature of a market economy and international integration.