Vietnam has worked to develop the domestic market with a population of nearly 100 million people in the context that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global supply chains, said Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) eyes the country’s ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) next year before politicians get busy for the national elections in 2022.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach and Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Taras Kachka agreed to make greater efforts to push bilateral trade to US$1 billion within the next three years.

Southeast Asia's six leading economies are expected to face diverging fiscal paths in 2021, with Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia gaining from pre-pandemic levels while Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand struggle to return to health.

From December 6 to 11, 2020, China and the EU held the 35th round of negotiations on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (“CAI”), a bilateral treaty that will replace the 26 existing bilateral investment treaties between 27 individual EU Member States and China, thus providing a uniform legal framework for EU-China investment ties.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said a free trade deal with London would be signed on Tuesday.

AfCFTA’s secretariat says adoption will be slow as many nations lack border facilities

Southeast Asian nations leverage agreement to balance great powers US and China

With the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, the Philippines is now setting its sights on the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a official of the Department of Trade and Industry said.

Vietnam posted a positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 2.91 percent in 2020 amid impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's General Statistics Office announced Sunday.