Japanese investors are increasing their presence in Vietnam’s real estate sector by teaming up with domestic partners.
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES).
The Ministry of Industry and Trade will apply global safeguards in an emergency action to control increasing imports of monosodium glutamate to Viet Nam from March 25 this year.
Those FDI projects committed to the agriculture sector are small, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said at separate meetings held last week with relevant agencies in preparation for a draft decree on foreign investment in agriculture.
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng has approved the funding of nearly US$224 million for a ground-breaking sustainable cities project.
Mozambique and Vietnam have struck a deal which would see the transfer of experience and technologies in agricultural production especially of rice to the southern African country.
Analysts said that Japanese FDI (foreign direct investment) had decreased in industrial sector but was showing growth in the service sector.
Vietnam has been warned that it would be outstripped by Thailand and Cambodia in rice exports if it cannot change the current production and export policies.
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has released preliminary results of its latest antidumping duty administrative review on Vietnamese shrimp, with higher duties proposed for any shipment from the Southeast Asian country.
South Korea's CJ Group will invest US$500 million in three key Vietnamese sectors of agriculture, entertainment and logistics in 2016.
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