Việt Nam News

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 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.

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.

The southern city’s Department of Construction has completed the resettlement housing plan for urban development projects for the 2017-20 period.

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.

Twenty-six Indonesian companies are showcasing their products at a trade fair which opened its doors in the central city of Đà Nẵng on Thursday.

Việt Nam will need international support and co-operation to develop a green capital market, one that channels funding towards environmentally sustainable and climate change relevant ventures and projects, experts said on Friday.

A memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday between Business Association of High Quality Vietnamese Products and Netherlands-based GMP+ International and Business Support and Application Services Limited Company (BSAS).

The European Chamber of Commerce in Việt Nam (EuroCham) officially launched its first publication of the EuroCham Greenbook in Việt Nam on Thursday in HCM City. 

 Recently-elected Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern called climate change the greatest challenge facing this generation and the Asia Pacific region, as she opened the final day of APEC CEO Summit 2017 on Friday in Đà Nẵng.