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Many international partners and foreign corporations have expressed interest in purchasing large volumes of forest carbon credits from Vietnam, according to Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. The ministry cited potential buyers like the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance (LEAF) Coalition, Amazon, and Italy’s energy giant Eni. It revealed the information in its interpretation […]

Overseas investment by Vietnamese firms in the first half of 2025 surged more than 3.5 times, reaching over US$487 million, the Ministry of Finance’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) reported. The electricity production and distribution sector received the largest share of Vietnamese investment, with over $111.2 million, accounting for 22.8% of total overseas investment. It was […]

Vietnam’s Party chief To Lam and U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday stated that they welcome the agreement reached by the two countries’ negotiating teams on the Joint Vietnam-United States Statement on a Fair, Balanced, and Reciprocal Trade Agreement Framework. Lam and Trump held a telephone conversation at 8 p.m (Vietnam time) on the same […]

Vietnam’s total import-export turnover reached $432.03 billion in the first half of 2025, marking a 16.1% increase compared to the same period last year. The country’s export earnings grew by 14.4%, while its import turnover rose by 17.9%, resulting in a trade surplus of US$7.63 billion, the National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of […]

The increase mainly driven by price hike of food, electricity and healthcare services. Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.27% in the first half of 2025 as compared with the same period last year, according to the National Statistics Office. The CPI growth was mainly driven by price increases of food and food stuff, […]

 Vietnam’s GDP growth in the second quarter was estimated at 7.96%, highest in three years. In the 2020-2025 period, the growth rate was second only to the 8.56% recorded in the second quarter of 2022, according to the General Statistics Office. For the first six months of the year, GDP grew by 7.52%, marking the […]

Ho Chi Minh City attracted nearly $1.78 billion worth of registered FDI in the first five months of 2025, marking a significant increase of 87.5% compared to the same period last year, according to the municipal People’s Committee. Reporting about the southern metropolis’s socio-economic situation in the five-month period at a meeting held on June […]

Vietnam accounted for 97% of China’s mango imports in the first quarter, far exceeding competitors such as Thailand and Australia. China’s US$29 million mango imports jumped 21 times year-on-year, according to China customs. Among six countries it imported from, Vietnam was the only one with growth. The remaining markets were Cambodia, Peru, Australia, Thailand and […]

US, China and Japan remaining the three largest export markets for Vietnamese agro-forestry-fishery products. Vietnam’s export value of agriculture, forestry, and fishery products reached $21.15 billion in the first four months of 2025, an increase of 10.7% compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. Of the total, […]

The average export price hitting $5,700 per ton. Vietnam exported nearly 660,000 tons of coffee in the first four months of 2025, earning an estimated $3.8 billion, figures from the Vietnam Customs show. While export volume dropped 9.4%, the value rose 51.8% compared to the same period last year. The average coffee export prices in […]