Many international and regional brands will enter Việt Nam’s retail and franchise sector in the coming years, according to experts taking part in Việt Nam Retail and Franchise Conference held in HCM City yesterday.
First, although exemptions will dampen their negative effect, they are bad policy. Second, they are a frightening reminder that any human barriers between Trump’s instincts and economic policy is weakening. Third, the establishment’s reaction to them is a reminder that too many powerful people remain mired in the status quo that helped get us into this mess.
In the wake of the inability to achieve consensus in the 2016-2017 UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE), policymakers are exploring how other multilateral efforts and regional activities can promote cyber stability and security.
In the last 30 years Vietnam has attracted massive amounts of FDI but has missed opportunities to develop supporting industries
In order to promptly remove difficulty for enterprises and local Customs in the implementation of the Government's Decree No. 15/2018 / ND-CP on food safety management, the General Department of Vietnam Customs shall continue to issue additional guiding documents on five contents related to the implementation of this Decree.
Amid uncertainty over U.S. foreign policy, countries across Southeast Asia are looking to build up strategic partnerships with regional powers to counter an increasingly assertive China.
The handsome stone edifice that serves as the headquarters for the World Trade Organization rises like a fortress over Lake Geneva, projecting an air of impregnability. But lately the institution looks vulnerable, sowing worries that global commerce itself may be in jeopardy.
A new Trans Pacific Partnership agreement has been signed in Santiago, Chile, on 8 March. The original TPP agreement, comprising US plus 11 countries (Japan, Chile, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam), was signed in 2016 but was not ratified because US President Donald Trump withdrew from it.
The world economy became more interconnected in the 1990s and 2000s, delivering immediate pain to rich countries, along with benefits that only now are starting to be more apparent.
Stock markets took a plunge this week as President Trump announced a slew of tariffs and penalties against China, which according to Trump could amount to tens of billions of dollars.
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