Industries

Home-stay services are becoming popular across Vietnam, with many people turning their houses into tourist dwellings to welcome foreign visitors. Tran Thanh Hung, 45, of the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, has spent 800 million dong (Bt1.24 million) to upgrade and expand his house. Located ...

Chip Mong Group is the latest conglomerate to invest into local production of animal feed, announcing this week that it will sink $60 million into building a large-scale feed mill and industrial piggery, a move that agricultural experts welcomed but said would still not be ...

Đà Nẵng maintained its status as the most competitive locality in the country, topping the Provincial Competitiveness Index 2016 for the fourth consecutive year and seventh year at the top position since the rank was announced. The annual report, the 12th of is kind so ...

Government officials are confident that the Intergovernmental Tenth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia currently place in Vientiane will help to spur the development of Laos’ transport network. The comment was made by Deputy Prime Minister Somdy Duangdy at the forum’s opening ceremony on ...

Plans to pay garment workers twice a month will be difficult for employers to implement, industry representatives have warned. The Labor Ministry is amending laws so companies will be required to pay staff twice a month, in a bid to protect workers from being abandoned by ...

The central province of Quảng Nam is struggling to recruit doctors for public hospitals and clinics because of low pay and tough working conditions. At the General Hospital in the tourist hotspot of Hội An City, there are not enough doctors to serve local patients, ...

The northwestern province of Điện Biên should capitalise on its advantages to develop tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân told provincial officials on March 13. Lauding local socio-economic achievements, the top legislator, who is visiting some northwestern provinces, told Điện Biên to use ...

South Korean start-up carrier KAIR Airlines has announced that it has selected an A320 to launch its new low-cost operation, with the firm ordering eight A320ceo aircraft. The new airline will be based in Cheongju in central South Korea and will focus primarily on services ...

Laos put its tourism products in the spotlight at the world’s largest trade fair, the ITB (Internationale Tourismus Börse), held in Berlin, Germany, from March 8-12. According to the Tourism Marketing Promotion Department of the Information, Culture and Tourism Ministry, Laos was one of 187 ...

The Lao Furniture Association expects sales from the second Vientiane Furniture Fair to be held at Lao-ITECC from April 1-9 to reach 20-30 billion kip. The figure was announced by Vice President of the LFA, Mr Kongmala Phommalay, at a press conference in Vientiane last ...