Chocolate

Chocolate becoming Japan's favourite flavour

Move over azuki and sweet sticky rice. While Japanese pastry chefs may have started using cocoa a few centuries after the West, this once foreign flavour has captivated Japan's confectionery world

Chocolate lovers have fewer strokes, study finds

A sweet tooth isn't necessarily bad for your health-- at least not when it comes to chocolate, hints a new study

The sweetest week of chocolate at Sofitel Plaza Saigon

Good news for all chocolate and pastry lovers! A mouthwatering promotional week hosted by the Sofitel Plaza Saigon featuring the great tastes of chocolate drinks and cakes prepared by Chef Bruno Pastorelli – Best Craftsman of France in Pastry in1989 and Chef Reiko Kida from Tokyo is on until September 10.

From Business

Firms advised to focus on TPP

HN — Domestic businesses should positively build plans and methods to grow marketplaces in nations joining the Trans-Off-shore Partnership (TPP) Agreement.Ngo Chung Khanh, deputy director from the Secretary of state for Industry and Trade's Multilateral Trade Policy Department, made the suggestion in a conference in Ha Noi yesterday.The TPP pact, also called the Trans-Off-shore Proper Economic Partnership Agreement, is really a multilateral free trade deal that aims to help liberalise the financial systems

Blue chips lead share plunge

HN – Blue nick declines ongoing to tug shares lower around the HCM City Stock Market today.As much as 80 percent from the top 30 shares by market capitalisation and liquidity sank, which the 2nd biggest share PV Gas, HCM City Infrastructure Investment (CII), Sea Group (OGC) and Sacombank Investments (SBS) fell through the daily limit of 5 percent.Only mixer Masan Group (MSN), property developer Quoc Cuong Gia Lai (OQC) and Song Da Urban & Industrial Zone Investment and Development (SJS) bucked the