Viet Nam's property market is revising but depending too much on the financial market, which makes investment still risky, so developers should take prudential steps towards the market.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) should develop further in accordance with market mechanisms, said experts at a conference in the city.

Demand for hotel rooms in Viet Nam has grown at 7-8 per cent a year for the last three years, and occupancy rates in large cities are catching up with those in major cities across the region, a seminar heard in HCM City on June 9.

After blatantly anchoring the HD-981 oil rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, China will continue to take larger steps, experts have predicted.  

 Lazada, the only foreign major player in the e-commerce market, has ambitions to dislodge Vietnamese ChoDienTu from its No 1 position.

The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) and the Ministry of Industry and Trade have told the Northern and Southern Food Corporations (Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2) to re-negotiate their contracts with the National Food Agency of the Philippines to export 800,000 tons of rice, a member of the VFA was quoted...