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Day: January 3, 2024

Vietnam Clothing Suppliers: Quick Guide 2025

Vietnam clothing suppliers are many and varied, producing any number of items of clothing from shoes to hats and everything in between. This is off the back of low labour costs and a long history of making clothing, both bespoke and mass manufactured. This has also seen this burgeoning Southeast

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Fines up to US$4,000 for insurance firms that mislead customers on cards

A proposed decree from Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance could see life insurance providers that mislead customers fined up to US$4,000, Vietnam News is reporting. This comes on the back of reports throughout 2023 of banks misleading or coercing customers into purchasing insurance products in order to draw commissions from insurance

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Vietnam’s 2023 exports largely powered by foreign firms

Almost three quarters of Vietnam’s exports are from foreign-invested enterprises, Vietnam Plus is reporting. In fact, US$259.95 billion (73.1 percent) of Vietnam’s exports were facilitated by foreign operators in 2023. The state media agency goes on to say foreign direct investment is ‘crucial’ to Vietnam’s economy. Note that, there have

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