Container truck seen at HCMC’s Cat Lai Port. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen Bilateral trade between Vietnam and Singapore reached a record high of nearly S$40 billion (US$31.1 billion) last year. That marked a 26.2% increase from the previous peak of S$31.67 billion in 2024, the Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore said, citing data from Singapore’s Accounting […]
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Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC ranked 45th globally among the world’s 50 most connected airports last year, a report has shown. This is a jump from the 54th place in 2024 for the airport, which offers over 8,300 possible connections to 94 destinations worldwide, according to the United Kingdom-based OAG, an aviation data […]
Planes at HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat Airport. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran A new carrier, Crystal Bay Airlines, has joined Vietnam’s aviation market with a charter capital of VND300 billion (US$11.4 million). The firm was established on Nov. 6, 2025, and operates in 51 business sectors, with its main focus being air passenger transportation, according to […]
Workers place fillets of fish to freeze at a factory in Can Tho, southern Vietnam. Photo by Reuters Vietnam aims to export over 10 million tonnes of seafood worth US$11.5 billion this year. This would mark a 0.6% increase in volume from 2025, said Pham Quang Toan, deputy director general of the Department of Fisheries […]
A fisherman works on a boat in southern Ca Mau Province. Photo by VnExpress/An Minh Vietnam has seen strong growth in seafood exports to Singapore over the last two years, becoming the city-state’s third-largest seafood supplier in the first nine months of 2025. Statistics from Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority show that Vietnam had […]
Consumers seem set to tighten their purse strings this Lunar New Year amid surging prices of essential items caused by a string of natural disasters this year. Ngoc Anh’s family in HCMC will not spend much during the nine-day festival in February 2026. “If I get a large year-end bonus, we might spend a little […]
The planned route of the North-South high-speed rail. Graphics by VnExpress/Hoang Khanh Vingroup, the conglomerate owned by Vietnam’s richest billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong, has withdrawn its bid to build the north-south high-speed rail. The company said Thursday that the decision is meant to help focus its resources on other key infrastructure projects that have already […]
Authorities have approved a master site plan for an Olympic-standard sports complex to be developed by Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, featuring a 135,000-seat stadium that would become the second-largest in the world. Planned for a 411-hectare site in Hanoi’s southern part, the complex is designed to meet the requirements for hosting major international events, including the […]
Vietnam had exported around 225,000 tonnes of pepper as of the end of November, earning more than US$1.5 billion in revenue. Although the export volume fell by 4.4% year-on-year, the turnover rose by 24.4% thanks to improved demand and persistently high export prices, according to the Vietnam Pepper and Spice Association (VPSA). A person holds […]
Containers at Tan Vu – Hai Phong port in northern Vietnam, July 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy Vietnam posted a trade surplus of US$20.53 billion in the first 11 months of this year, according to the National Statistics Office. Vietnam recorded trade surpluses of $35.6 billion with the EU, up 10.4%; and $2 billion with […]
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