With Viet Nam trying to escape the economic crisis, investors are now putting their confidence in the retail sector.

The first quarter economy went in a positive direction, said many Government members in a regular meeting this late March

More companies are looking to diversify their supply sources away from China to Vietnam, writes Zoya Vassilieva, a PricewaterhouseCoopers director leading its strategy practices in Thailand and Vietnam

The Vietnamese economy will recover towards the end of this year, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung told representatives of foreign and Vietnamese business groups at the 2nd Business Roundtable with the Government of Vietnam which recently took place in Hanoi.

HCM CITY — Viet Nam lured about US$6 billion in foreign direct investment in the first quarter of this year, 60 per cent of the figure for the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.