Foreign enterprises operating in Vietnam in the areas of electronics, automobile assembly, garments and textiles and others are seeking local partners amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in a large number of countries across the world. This is an opportunity for Vietnam's supporting industry enterprises to accelerate and participate in the global value chain.

The European Union on Wednesday emphasized its desire to negotiate an end to a longstanding dispute with the United States over aircraft subsidies even as Washington raised duties on Airbus aircraft by 50 percent.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Thursday wrote to leaders of ASEAN countries and New Zealand proposing the 36th ASEAN Summit, the ASEAN-New Zealand Summit and related meetings, initially scheduled for April 8-9 in Việt Nam’s Đà Nẵng City, be postponed until the end of June.

China is working with other parties to push for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to be signed as scheduled.

While many industries are suffering from the coronavirus outbreak, the shrimp sector has yet to see a big impact as now is not their main harvest season. Producers and exporters are seeking to enhance their competitiveness so as to seize on new opportunities and overcome the outbreak in the time ahead.

As the the coronavirus pandemic grows, preventing a full-scale financial crisis requires exactly the right response.

Recently, the COVID-19 epidemic has badly affected economic and trade cooperation activities between Vietnam and other countries, including cross-border import-export activities between several Vietnamese northern border provinces and China’s Guangxi and Yunnan.

Up to 50 percent of Vietnam’s logistics firms estimate they will see revenue cut in half this year compared to 2019 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Britain and the European Union have started negotiations to decide on their relationship beyond the post-Brexit transition period through the year’s end. While the talks are mainly about a free trade agreement on goods and services and investment protection, they also concern EU members’ fisheries catches in Britain’s economic waters.

Việt Nam’s export value of wood and wood products reached US$1.53 billion in the first two months of this year, marking a year-on-year increase of 10.1 per cent, according to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.