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Hanoi (VNA) – The Americas was the fastest growing trade partner continent of Vietnam in the first five months of 2019, with expansion of over 22 percent, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Large-cap stocks continued to underperform on Tuesday morning, dragging down the benchmark index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange.

In the first five months of this year, investment funds lost in the race against the benchmark VN-Index, online newspaper ndh.vn has reported.

African swine fever has not only caused livestock farming households to fall into debt, but has also made it difficult for animal feed dealers to collect their payments.

Private Vietnamese firms have asked the Government to push administrative reform and build a favourable trade and investment climate to make Viet Nam one of the best places to do business in ASEAN and meet the standards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

A solar power plant costing VND747 billion (US$32 million) opened in the south central province of Ninh Thuan last week.

Vietnamese logistics firms are embracing technology to optimise their costs and improve their competitiveness, according to experts.

There will be a global sugar deficit of about 2.5 million tonnes in 2019-20, and prices are expected to harden, the fourth meeting of the ASEAN Sugar Alliance heard in HCM City on Monday.

The ODA National Steering Committee held a meeting with donors in Ha Noi on Monday to seek solutions to speed up the disbursement of ODA capital and preferential loans, which has showed signs of slowing down in recent years.