The Nanning branch of China Railway Group Limited reported a sharp increase in freight transport on the China-Vietnam cross-border railway last year, with trains departing from Guangxi carrying a total of 19,670 containers, marking a staggering annual increase of 1,153%.

The Vietnam International Electronics & Smart Appliances Expo (IEAE) 2024 will take place from May 23 - 25 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City with the participation of about 600 enterprises.

Total retail sales of goods and services in Vietnam in the first seven months of the year rose 11.6 percent from the same period in 2018 to reach 2.8 quadrillion VND (120.36 billion USD).

Vietnamese suppliers of home appliances and agricultural products have been the apple of Japanese businesses’ eyes thanks to their large export scale and steady growth in recent years.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) for January rose 0.86 percent over December 2017 and 2.06 percent compared to the same month last year, according to the Hanoi Statistics Office.

Republic of Korea-based Samsung Electronics is considering building a home appliances factory in Myanmar, efforts to seek new manufacturing facilities to cut labour costs and improve efficiency.