10-10-2019 15:43
With its vast potential of e-commerce development thanks to surging IT and wide smartphone coverage, Vietnam is trying to build its own digital economy fuelled by a hallmark strategy on Industry 4.0 that is expected to help the country improve its competitiveness, attract more high-quality investment, and ensure sustainable growth. Thanh Dat reports.
09-10-2019 18:51
Falling farther and farther behind other e-commerce platforms, Lazada has decided to branch out into e-wallet services – a decision with which the company may very well dig its own grave.
24-09-2019 15:00
E-commerce in Vietnam is growing, however many individuals and businesses are taking advantage of online platforms to sell poor quality and fake goods, harming customers and causing lost tax revenues.
23-09-2019 11:31
The boom in digital technologies in recent years has sped up the evolution of retail and changed buying habits – providing a new driver of growth for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).
18-09-2019 10:07
Vietnamese exporters are urged to give priority to e-commerce and e-logistics platforms to increase opportunities to join major value chains while preventing possible loss risks amid changing global trade rules and the wide influence of Industry 4.0.
12-09-2019 17:05
As of late June, VNG's VND506 billion ($22 million) investment in Tiki has been fully lost.
07-09-2019 10:00
Singapore-based e-commerce platform Shopee has been slow in protecting customers from “ghost” vendors which have been cheating out huge amounts of money from them.
06-09-2019 15:50
Alibaba Group has bought the e-commerce platform of NetEase for about US$2 billion and will participate in a US$700 million investment in NetEase's music streaming service, the two Chinese firms said on Friday (Sep 6).
05-09-2019 08:26
BW Industrial Development JSC (BW) has recently inked a strategic co-operation with e-commerce platform Shopee and China's smart logistics service provider BEST Inc. to create modern logistics platforms.
16-08-2019 11:48
Vietnam could have Southeast Asian's third-largest e-commerce market by 2025.
13-08-2019 10:26
The 2018 retail landscape in Vietnam was more challenging than ever, and the major market chains were trying to adapt quickly to changes to remain relevant. Consumers’ attitude toward shopping in the region were impacted by four major transformations: urbanisation, more single households, ageing, and increasing wealth.
09-08-2019 10:14
Shopping app installs are forecast to skyrocket by a whopping 242 per cent a full three weeks before the traditional Tet festival 2019 in Vietnam, according to AppsFlyer’s Tet 2019 App Market Report.
09-08-2019 08:14
Last-mile delivery firm Giao Hang Nhanh (GHN) has officially launched an automated sortation system with a sorting capacity of 30,000 orders per hour in its warehouse in Hanoi.
06-08-2019 00:00
VNG used to be Tiki's largest shareholder with an investment of VND384 billion ($16.7 million) but it has just lost this position to JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce giant.
27-07-2019 07:42
After being overwhelmed by Shopee and Tiki in terms of visits in the fourth quarter of last year, the ranking of Lazada has yet to improve – it is falling farther behind e-commerce competition.