Việt Nam News

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.

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.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to quickly complete its plan for electricity tariff adjustment. However, the increase should be at the lowest level, he said.

Preliminary agreement has been reached among ministers from 11 countries participating in the negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during their meeting on the sidelines of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week.