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Tata Coffee’s $50-million freeze-dried coffee plant, which was inaugurated in Vietnam last month, is expected to produce at its full capacity within the first couple of years, mainly to tap opportunities from higher demand in Eastern Europe, East Asia (Japan...

During three previous rounds of tariff increases, tea was excluded from the U.S. Trade Representative’s list of Chinese goods that are subject to import taxes of up to 25%. That ended May 10 with a request by the Trump administration to prepare to levy import...

Japanese companies are stepping up their business in Southeast Asia to cash in on the region's growth. This time they are pouring investment into food and beverage containers. Showa Denko will invest 7 billion yen ($63.9 million) to boost its aluminum can...

Coffee production in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest grower of robusta beans favoured by instant drinks makers like Nestle SA, will probably climb to the largest in four years in 2019, boosting global supplies and potentially further reducing costs for...

Call it the coffee paradox. The brewed beverage has never been more popular, but the price of beans is at its lowest point in over a decade and down by a quarter since October....

The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA) announced in April 2019 in a memorandum of understanding (MOU), an agreement to act rather than a formal plan, between the main industry and policy organizations in five tea-growing countries: Indian Tea Association, China Tea...

Pork exported from Spain to Vietnam grew 53.7% year-on-year in 2018, according to new figures from trade body...

Japan's Mitsui & Co. has agreed on a $150 million deal to acquire a 35.1% equity interest in Minh Phu Seafood Joint Stock Company, it...

Japan was Vietnam’s second-largest shrimp import market during the first three months of 2019, accounting for $121.7 million worth of product, or 19.7% of Vietnam’s total shrimp exports during the period, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and...

A paradox seems to surge in Vietnam’s livestock sector when foreign companies have been pouring big bulks into the sector although serious diseases are spreading to livestock production hub in the south. Increasingly disposable income, rapid urbanization as...