The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is collecting opinions on the draft National Energy Master Plan for 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050 to ensure national energy security.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade, in collaboration with the Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the World Bank, and the Vietnam Fine Arts Association, on October 28 launched a logo and slogan design contest to encourage people to cultivate power-saving habit.

Many cashback websites and smartphone apps dealing with virtual currencies are showing signs of illegal pyramid schemes and fraud, warned the Department of Competition and Consumer Protection under Ministry of Industry and Trade.

According to the Vietnam Electricity (EVN), around 42,187 rooftop solar power projects have been put into operation so far with a total capacity of 925.8MWp. 

For having not opened letters of credit, 58 containers of black pepper of 13 Vietnamese enterprises exported to Nepal are stuck at ports in this country. Because their goods could not either be exported or re-exported, enterprises are asking the Prime Minister for help.

Although business activities of Vietnamese enterprises have been recovered rapidly as the country has controlled well the Covid-19 pandemic for more than two months, according to a report released on July 10 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), the inventory of goods of Vietnamese enterprises is extremely high.

Vietnam exported US$166 million worth of processed agricultural products in the first quarter of 2020, up 33 percent year-on-year, statistics reveal.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, export turnover reached US$59.1 billion in the first quarter of 2020, which was up 0.5 percent over the same period in 2019 but still the lowest growth rate since 2003.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has asked relevant agencies, associations and wholesale enterprises to report on supply and demand of goods and food throughout the country in March and the next months of the year.