The latest updates from the Việt Nam Foreign Investment Agency revealed that Việt Nam invested US$3.97 million abroad in January, more than three times higher than the same month last year.

Việt Nam’s total outbound investment in the first quarter of the year hit an estimated US$120 million, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Metfone, the first telecommunications brand of Viettel in an overseas market, posted an accumulated revenue of more than US$2.2 billion in its first 10 years of operation.

Việt Nam’s businesses invested US$263.1 million in total, including new projects and additional capital, in 27 countries and territories in the first half of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Viettel Group will apply new international roaming fees for Myanmar when it launches its Mytel mobile phone network in that country on June 9, 2018.

The inflow of Vietnamese overseas investment is likely to increase more significantly in the time to come, said Đặng Phương Linh from the Việt Nam University of Commerce.

The Toyota Mekong Club Championship (TMCC) is scheduled to be held from December 2017 to January 2018.

The giant of telecom in Việt Nam, Viettel, has achieved major success after 10 years of investment in foreign countries, including ASEAN. On the occasion of ASEAN’s 50th anniversary, Lê Đăng Dũng, Viettel’s Deputy General Director talks with Việt Nam News reporter Vũ Hoa about the group’s contributions to their overseas markets in general and the regional community in particular.

The military-run telecom group, Viettel has targeted total revenue of nearly VNĐ32 trillion (US$1.4 billion) from its overseas investment this year, posting 29 per cent year-on-year increase.

Vietnamese mobile service operators are racing to reduce the charges for roaming services after the Ministry of Information and Communications allowed mobile operators to negotiate with foreign partners about international roaming services since June 1.