Vietnam attracted a total committed foreign direct investment (FDI) of 3.1 billion USD in the first two months of 2023, down 38% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Singapore’s economy expanded by 3.6% in 2022, slightly lower than the earlier estimate of 3.8%, data released by the country’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on February 13 showed.
The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) has announced that the country’s wholesales and retail trade in December 2022 reached a record high of 137.3 billion RM (31.9 billion USD), up 13.8% year-on-year.
Vietnam’s outbound investment, including both newly-registered and adjusted capital, exceeded 450 million USD in the first 10 months of this year, equivalent to nearly 70% of the figure recorded in the same period last year.
Vietnamese rice has been introduced at Carrefour Collagen, a hypermarket operated by French multinational retail and wholesale corporation Carrefour, as part of a programme run by the Vietnam Trade Office in France.
Malaysia’s wholesale and retail trade valued at 1.3 trillion MYR (310 billion USD) in 2021, posting a year-on-year expansion of 4 percent, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
Foreign investors poured 9 billion USD into Vietnamese retail and wholesale markets between January and November, accounting for 2.2 percent of the country’s total capital, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said.
Malaysia's businesses are more pessimistic about their business condition in the third quarter of 2021 due to the severe and prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, reported Xinhua news agency.
The Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) has been named winner of the Asian Banking and Finance (ABF) awards for the seventh consecutive years.
The market was closed after a female patient named NTC came here. She was a shrimp and fish seller, who regularly comes to Tam Hiep and Long Bien markets to do business.
Many wet markets in Ho Chi Minh City will be reopened, while ensuring all COVID-19 preventive measures in place, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Industry and Trade Nguyen Nguyen Phuong.
Many people in Ho Chi Minh City have been in fear of food shortages over recent days, since COVID-19 triggered the closure of wholesale markets which were linked to a growing number of infections. The city’s Department of Industry and Trade therefore identified a number of solutions to guarantee sufficient supply of essential items for local residents.
The southern province of Dong Nai has decided to apply social distancing measures within 15 days from 0:00 on July 9 in accordance with the Prime Minister’s Directive No.16/CT-TTg dated March 31, 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic has been developing complicatedly in the locality.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Industry and Trade said it has plans to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential goods to meet consumer demand though all three of the city's largest wholesale markets have been closed.
Vietnamese firms poured 546.7 million USD into overseas projects in the first five months of 2021, more than triple the figure of the same period last year.
The Thailand-based Central Retail Corporation Public Company Limited (CRC) plans to spend as much as 35 billion THB (1.1 billion USD) on expanding its network in Vietnam over the next five years.
The volume of waste relative to the total agricultural produce reaching focal points in Ho Chi Minh City has tended to decrease thanks to partial processing at source, according to the city people’s committee.
Consumer prices in Ho Chi Minh City showed slight fluctuations on February 16, or the fifth day of the new lunar year and the last day of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, with most traders in wet markets resuming business.