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EU Opens Trade Door To Vietnam, Closes It To Cambodia

The European Union agreed on Wednesday to open its markets wider to Vietnam, while closing its trade doors to Cambodia, rewarding Hanoi for its progress on...

EU Lawmakers Back Vietnam Trade Deal

EU lawmakers gave initial backing on Tuesday for a free trade agreement struck with Vietnam, the bloc's most comprehensive such pact with a developing coun...

Vietnam 2019 Rice Exports Up 4.2% Year-On-Year: Customs

Rice exports from Vietnam, the world's third-largest shipper of the grain, rose 4.2% in 2019 from a year earlier to 6.4 million tonnes, customs data s...

MSC Loads Its First Shipment Of Grapes From Spain To Vietnam

In August of this year, MSC announced that it successfully loaded its first shipment of table grapes from Spain to Vietnam. The grapes were loaded in Mu...

How Brazil And Vietnam Are Tightening Their Grip On The World's Coffee

A towering machine rumbles through the fields of Julio Rinco's farm in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, engulfing whole coffee trees and shaking free bean...

Arabica Coffee Prices Seen Rising 14% By Year-End

Arabica coffee prices will rise 14% by the end of 2019, bolstered by strong global demand and Brazil's entry into an off-year in its biennial producti...

Higher Costs Negate Rising Beer Sales For Heineken

Heineken NV, the world's second-largest brewer, missed estimates for first-half profit on Monday, as rising input costs offset higher beer sales. The Du...

African Swine Fever Hits Industrial Farms In Vietnam, 2.8m Pigs Culled

Vietnam has culled nearly 10% of its pig herd to contain an African swine fever outbreak that has started hitting large-scale industrial farms, the go...