Vietnam’s total agro-forestry-fishery trade in the first half of 2025 is estimated at US$57 billion, with exports reaching $33.5 billion, up 14.3% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. Meanwhile, imports rose 12.8% to $23.5 billion. Export revenue from major product groups saw strong growth, with agricultural products earning $18.3 billion (up 16.8%), […]

Vietnamese mango, pistachio, pineapple, and coconut exports to the European Union jumped between 41% and 200% year-on-year in the first four months. Mango topped the list of fruits and vegetables exports to the bloc at US$27.6 million, up 54%, followed by pistachio at $17 million, a 90% rise. Pineapple exports surged 200% to $11 million, […]

Vietnam’s coffee exports in the first six months were worth US$5.5 billion for the first time ever though global prices have plummeted. The figure is double from the same period last year, and even higher than the $5.4 billion recorded in the whole of last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. This […]

HCMC has unveiled plans to set up an international financial hub at a cost of VND172 trillion (US$7 billion) in District 1 and the Thu Thiem Urban Area. It will span 783 hectares in the contiguous areas that are divided by the Saigon River. Its first phase of nine hectares will be in Thu Thiem, […]

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 […]