Poor Khmer households in An Giang given gifts on Chol Chnam Thmay Festival

An Giang: Hundreds of poor households of the Khmer ethnic minority group in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on April 7 received gifts from the provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, Loc Troi Group JSC and the Vietnam-Cambodia Business As…

GERMAN OPEN: EAIN YOW CLAIMS MAIDEN WORLD TOUR TITLE IN HAMBURG

KUALA LUMPUR, National men’s squash player Ng Eain Yow landed his first Professional Squash Association (PSA) World Tour title after emerging triumphant at the inaugural German Open 2024 on Sunday.

The fourth-seeded player rose to the occasion to se…

Special consumption tax can hurt beverage industry

Hanoi: A draft proposal to increase special consumption tax on alcoholic beverages may hurt the Vietnamese beverage industry’s ability to compete on their home turf, putting the entire supply chain at risk, said industry insiders.

Lam Du An, Deputy G…

Vietnam to issue price framework to purchase electricity from Laos in Q2

Hanoi: Vietnam will issue a price framework to purchase electricity from Laos for the period after 2025 in the second quarter of this year, said Minister of Trade and Industry Nguyen Hong Dien.

At talks with Lao Minister of Energy and Mines Phosay Sa…

Foreign investment driven towards new breakthrough phase

Hanoi: Vietnam has so far drawn nearly 500 billion USD in registered FDI capital after nearly four decades of opening up its economy, with investment quality improvement considered a key task for a new breakthrough phase ahead, the Ha Noi Moi newspape…

Revised land law to make real estate market more bustling

Hanoi: The Land Law (revised) passed in January by the National Assembly (NA) is a huge step forward that demonstrates the attention of the Party, the State, the Government, and the NA in protecting the rights of overseas Vietnamese (OVs) and Vietname…

Vietnam – EU’s second biggest coffee supplier in 2023

Hanoi: With 652,000 tonnes of coffee exported to the EU worth 1.66 billion USD in 2023, Vietnam was the second biggest coffee supplier of the EU in terms of volume and third largest supplier in terms of value.

Even though the EU’s coffee import in 20…