{
  "id": 11324845,
  "title": "Vietnam–Laos Product Week showcases over 100 domestic, imported goods",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/vietnam-laos-product-week-showcases-over-100-domestic-imported-goods",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-02T01:17:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SGGP English Edition Business",
    "slug": "sggp-english-edition-business",
    "url": "https://en.sggp.org.vn/vietnamlaos-product-week-showcases-over-100-domestic-imported-goods-post130050.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Vietnam and Laos officially opened their first Vietnam–Laos Product Week in Hanoi on October 1, showcasing over 100 domestic and imported goods spanning various categories such as food grains, processed foods, beverages, fashion items, cosmetics, and consumer goods. Vietnamese products featured include traditional items like 'Cha com' (green rice pork rolls), 'banh cha' (traditional sweet meat pie), and 'banh bot loc' (tapioca dumplings), as well as staples such as fish sauce, shrimp salt, palm sugar, and natural cosmetics. Lao offerings highlight specialty rice varieties, tea, coffee, dried buffalo and beef, dried bananas, and agarwood-based goods. The week-long event, which runs through October 4, aims to facilitate business meetings, market research, and partnership development between businesses, cooperatives, and manufacturers from both nations. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Viet Son emphasized the exhibition's role in expanding trade opportunities for participants.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}