Vietnam

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is looking to shift the manufacturing of its over-ear AirPods Studio headphones away from China. What Happened Apple will now make its new Studio range of headphones in Vietnam. This is the first time ever that the Cupertino-based tech giant has produced an entirely new...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (OTC: SSNLF) has started work on a planned research and development center in Vietnam, the company announced Monday. What Happened The R&D center to be built in the capital city Hanoi will cost about $220 million, according to Samsung. The center is expected to...

Road-feeder services to airports are slowly increasing in Southeast Asia but are still much less common than in Europe and the U.S., where highway infrastructure is well developed and transit times are relatively short. Typically, airlines arrange truck shipments collected at or near one airport,...

A widening demand-supply gap is raising coffee bean prices as Asians are drinking more coffee, while Brazil and Vietnam could cut coffee production in 2020. What Happened Arabica coffee futures prices jumped about 30% from the previous month to around 132 cents per pound, the highest since...

Global shipping giant Maersk has opened its latest logistics and distribution center to cope with growing domestic demand in Vietnam and "significant trade growth" in the region. The center is located in northern Vietnam, about 25 kilometers east of Hanoi's city center and 120 kilometers west-...

China has placed its first domestically built aircraft carrier in active service on Tuesday, according to the Nikkei. What Happened China commissioned into active service its first homegrown aircraft carrier at a military base in Sanya, on the southern island of Hainan, near the South China...

The U.S. government has entered an agreement with Vietnam to work together with the Southeast Asian country on security and facilitation of legitimate trade. The Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) was signed by the U.S. embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission Caryn McClelland and Vietnamese Vice...

The VanEck Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSE: VNM) has shed 5.13% over the past month, whittling its year-to-date gain to just 6.78% while prompting some market observers to say stocks in the Southeast Asian economy are inexpensive. While some traders may be searching for Vietnamese value, a familiar issue...

A sunken vessel in one of Vietnam's main waterways may impact ocean freight out of one of the United States' fastest-growing trade partners. A small container ship sunk Oct. 19 in the Long Tau channel that feeds into the Cai Mep deepwater port in the country's south, according to a notice from...

The VanEck Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSE: VNM) is up 12% this year, trailing the iShares MSCI Frontier 100 ETF (NYSE: FM) in which Vietnam is one of the largest country weights by about 370 basis points. What Happened VNM's decent though not spectacular performance this year could, in the future,...

FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for voices with unique knowledge of numerous transportation/logistics/supply chain sectors, as well as other critical expertise. The Asian supply chain is best described as a spider web with China the central focal point. It was like that well before...

Among exchange traded funds tracking equities in developing economies, the VanEck Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSE: VNM) has been a steady hand. VNM, the lone U.S.-listed ETF dedicated to Vietnamese stocks, is up almost 10 percent and the fund is modestly higher over the past month, sharply outperforming...

With international trade tensions running higher, Vietnamese equities are getting caught in the downdraft. The VanEck Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSE: VNM), the lone Vietnam exchange traded fund listed in the U.S., is down about 5 percent over the past month. What Happened While VNM is struggling against...

Link Thanh Group and KRONN Ventures AG a blockchain-based firm based in Switzerland partner to launch an exchange in Vietnam. The current license gives the company the mandate to operate in Vietnam in spite of the authorities banning crypto activities. The news that Vietnamese are going to have...