A week of Vietnam-Hanoi goods kicked off at the AEON Lake Town Mori in Japan's Saitama prefecture on June 8 as part of a cooperation pact signed between the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Hanoi authorities, and Japanese retail group AEON.

More businesses and households in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho are installing solar panels to reduce monthly electricity costs.

Vietnam recorded a trade deficit of 1.3 billion USD in May, resulting in a total deficit of 548 million USD for the first five months of the year, according to General Statistics Office (GSO)'s monthly report.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is calling for Singaporean investment in many priority fields, including infrastructure development at industrial parks, smart city building, logistic zones, healthcare, and education-training.

Improving quality is an urgent and long-term solution to help Vietnamese farm produce make inroads into global markets, according to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

A ceremony to inaugurate Vam Cong bridge - the second cable-stayed bridge across Hau river, a tributary of the Mekong, was held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on May 19.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho wishes to receive Canadian investments in high-tech agriculture so that local staples can meet stringent requirements in some foreign markets.

With certain advantages, convenience stores have been an increasingly popular shopping destination for customers, and they have also become a choice for domestic retailers to compete with foreign rivals.

Vietnamese banks are stepping up plans to expand their markets globally instead of focusing only on the Indochinese region.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) bought 8.35 billion USD from credit institutions between the beginning of this year and April 17 to build up the nation's foreign reserve.

The first direct flight of Malaysia's AirAsia from Bangkok (Thailand) landed in the Can Tho international airport in the Mekong Delta on May 2.