Việt Nam News

The spirit of entrepreneurship is key to the development of startup businesses in Southeast Asia and for Vietnamese startups in particular, according to Đinh Thị Quỳnh Vân, general director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Vietnam.

According to the Việt Nam Real Estate Brokers Association last year around 23,000 units of condotels, or condo-hotels, were offered for sale, and 65-70 per cent of them were snapped up.  However, demand for condotels seems to be falling.

Three years after a groundbreaking decree opened public companies to foreign ownership, less than four per cent of eligible firms have removed their foreign ownership ceiling.

Phú Quốc Island in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang is pouring more investment in tourism and transport infrastructure to become a driving force for development in the region.

 The VN-Index is forecast to extend its growth next week and conquer the 1000-point threshold, analysts said.

Construction of a US$42 million solar power plant commenced on Sunday in the southern province of Long An’s Thạnh Hóa District.

Vietnamese companies, especially those in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, should participate in trade promotion programmes if they want to expand exports to Japan, according to the Việt Nam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade).

 The central province of Phú Yên is determined to improve its business climate and enhance investment promotion to attract capable investors who can help exploit its untapped potential.

The Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang is calling for investment in 81 projects in fields such as tourism, commerce, environment, high-tech agriculture and others.

With the rapid growth of e-commerce and the appearance of many new models, the Government needs to review existing regulations and amend them suitably to meet evolving requirements, a seminar heard in HCM City on Friday.

 The prices of 11-digit SIM cards are surging as buyers seek to obtain phone numbers that will contain lucky numbers when tens of millions of 11-digit subscribers are switched to a 10-digit format, starting from today.

The world has entered an era of great technological development, which has changed people’s lifestyles, even in Việt Nam, Nhịp Cầu Đầu Tư (Investment Bridge) magazine’s technology conference has heard.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development cited the risk of African Swine Flu (ASF) in a decision to suspend pork imports from Poland and Hungary starting September 20.

Shares maintained slight growth on Friday but the recurrence of profit-taking pressure in the afternoon trade over the past three sessions continued to pose a risk to the market’s uptrend.

The Việt Nam - Cambodia trade and investment promotion forum opened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Friday, providing updated information on new trade policies for enterprises of the two countries and creating opportunities to increase business.

The Việt Nam Business Summit (VBS) is a good chance for companies in different fields to co-operate.

A B2B Meeting held by the Consulate General of India in HCM City on Thursday provided networking and partnership opportunities for Vietnamese and Indian businesses in the electrical and power sector.

US government has lowered the anti-dumping duty on frozen fish fillets from Việt Nam after the 14th period of review (POR14) for the Vietnamese frozen fish fillets to the US, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry.