Vietnam plans to raise the cross-border trade transaction index by 3-5 places this year compared to 2018. By 2020, it targets to raise the cross-border trade transaction index by 10-15 places compared to 2018.
Increasingly foul air from rapidly growing cities and industry could force South-east Asian nations to speed up the switch to cleaner sources of energy and to meet UN climate goals, says a leading energy specialist.
The good news is in for Vietnam. Last week the Ministry of Planning and Investment announced that foreign direct investment in the country increased by nearly 70 percent year-on-year in the first five months of 2019, the highest such increase since 2015.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte co-chaired the third High-Level Dialogue on Italy-ASEAN Economic Relations in Hanoi on June 6, held during the latter’s official visit to Vietnam.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will take the initiative in changing trade policies and collaborate with other ministries and localities to effectively support domestic enterprises to increase exports, it said.
Most people seem to think of trade as happening between only two countries. If tariffs reduce U.S. imports from China, many -- including President Donald Trump -- seem to assume that the affected industries will move production to the U.S. But that’s not how things work, which is why other countries might actually benefit from the U.S.-China trade war.
The National Assembly is debating Vietnam planned participation in the International Labor Organization Convention 98 on the right to organize and do collective bargaining.
The Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) endorsed more than 20 initiatives for 2019-2020 in Bangkok on May 31.
With e-commerce and automation changing the landscape of the logistics sector dramatically, there will be a focus on re-skilling the existing workforce in technology, which will improve the competitiveness of the logistics industry.
General Department of Vietnam Customs is developing a scheme to re-design the whole IT system of the Customs sector with the goal of building a system based on the application of new technological achievements, appropriate with international standards, towards digital customs and meeting the requirements of intelligent management.
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