Việt Nam News

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has approved the urban design project in areas along Belt Road No 3. Accordingly, buildings in these areas could rise up to 50 storeys.

HCM City People’s Committee has asked relevant departments to tackle problems in granting house ownership certificates to overseas Vietnamese to encourage their investment into the real estate market.

Shopee, an online shopping platform, recently announced that its parent company, Sea Limited, has listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Việt Nam News speaks with Pine Kyaw, Managing Director of Shopee Vietnam, about the listing and the company’s plans in Việt Nam.

Renewable energy firm Tín Thành Group has expressed a desire to become a strategic partner of Bình Sơn Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR).

The European Union is ready to support Việt Nam’s seafood industry, but it has to review its fisheries management and address its shortcomings, the First Counselor of the EU Delegation to Việt Nam, Miriam Garcia Ferrer, told a meeting in HCM City on November 9.

The first blockchain Hackathon in Việt Nam with the theme “Vietnam Blockathon – Building Blocks to Vietnam’s Future” is being held this month in Hà Nội and HCM City, aiming to create widespread public awareness and engagement with blockchain technologies and nurture an emerging Blockchain ecosystem in Việt Nam.

A foreign investor, who did not want to be named, bought all 48.3 million shares of Vinamilk offered at an auction at the HCM Stock Exchange on Friday.

A quarter-century of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and South Korea has yielded impressive progress, especially in investment and trade, said Kim Jaehong, Chairman of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) at the Việt Nam-Korea Business Partnership Forum held on Friday in Hà Nội.

Finnish companies will continue to invest in the development of Southeast Asia, including Việt Nam, particularly in the conversion of waste to power, according to Finpro, the national trade promotion office of Finland.

A bilateral trade agreement would significantly boost trade, investment and tourism between Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam, a senior official said yesterday.

Prices of apartments in the local market in the first 10 months of the year witnessed a downward trend, Hà Quang Hưng, deputy director of the Department Housing Management and Real Estate Market under the Ministry of Construction, said.

Shares closed the week on a positive note as large caps, especially Vinamilk, extended gains on the two national stock exchanges.

Fifty one South Korean firms in sectors like manufacturing, travel, construction, water treatment, marine transport, POS software and hardware, trading, garment and textile and others are taking part in a Korea-Việt Nam job fair that opened on Friday in HCM City.

The draft Law on Special Administrative, Economic Units needed to be substantially revised to make it feasible and to fully exploit resources for boosting economic development, according to a verification report from the National Assembly (NA) Law Committee.

In strong speeches laying out widely differing visions on the future of international trade, the presidents of China and the US yesterday stressed the importance of regional peace and security to stable, sustainable growth.

HQC USA LLC, a member of Vietnamese property developer Hoàng Quân Group, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a US$40 million mixed-use development project at Tacoma City, Washington.

The leaders of 21 APEC member economies will meet today to discuss ways to expedite efforts to achieve the Bogor Goals, connect supply chains, strengthen the multilateral trading system, promote regional trade agreements and move towards the realisation of a Free Trade Area of the Asia – Pacific (FTAAP).

Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Tuấn Anh said yesterday that an agreement in principle on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11) could not be reached as planned because several outstanding issues could not be resolved.