Việt Nam News

Việt Nam’s agriculture sector is aiming to be among the 15 most developed countries in the world, in which the agricultural processing sector ranks among the top 10 countries by 2030.

Private banks have posted a significant growth in credit market share in the past five years.

Hoàng Việt Anh, FPT's deputy general director, will be chairman of FPT Digital and Trần Huy Bảo Giang, FPT director on digital transformation, will be its general director.

Six investment licences and one investment proposal project at Đà Nẵng Hi-Tech Park and Industrial Zones worth more than US$280 million have been granted to domestic and foreign investors.

The spectre of rising inflation haunts the Western world, very much blunting the joy over vaccine rollouts. In contrast, worry is building that Việt Nam is set to experience the opposite for the first time.

Việt Nam's bird-nest exports are expected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars when the world's largest market, China, opens up this year.

The northern province of Bắc Giang is improving a master plan on the development of industrial parks (IPs) and complexes, as well as land use planning, according to its provincial Party Committee.  

The Vietnamese e-commerce market is forecast to continue to boom in 2021, with revenue surpassing last year's figure.

Sacombank continues to collaborate with IBM for transforming its security operations centre to strengthen its data security infrastructure.

Southeast Asia will need 4,400 new airplanes valued at US$700 billion to support expanding demand for air travel over the next 20 years, said Darren Hulst, Boeing vice president of Commercial Marketing.

Vietnamese shares stayed positive on Friday on the back of strong buyding demand, going opposite to the downturn of regional stock markets.

Credendo Group’s offices in Germany and Austria have published a study to evaluate the level of risk in Việt Nam, which emphasised that the Southeast Asian country is continuing its successful economic story after its good performance in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the US state of West Virginia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday to accelerate co-operation in the economy, trade, and energy.

Despite negative performance due to strong fluctuations of Việt Nam’s stock market in January, big investment funds in the market remain optimistic.

If the COVID-19 pandemic is controlled in the first quarter, the GDP for the period may increase by 4.46 per cent, said the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

The advice came from Dr Trần Du Lịch, a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Group, in an interview with Công Thương (Industry and Trade) newspaper.

Investors from the UK were showing significant interest in investing in renewable energy projects in Việt Nam, especially wind power, expecting the Vietnamese Government to introduce long-term support policies as well as simplification of procedures for project implementation.

In a bright spot, however, FDI disbursement saw a slight increase of 2 per cent to an estimated $2.5 billion, it said, attributing this encouraging figure to business recovery of foreign companies and their efforts in ensuring their productions amid the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.