After more than three decades of economic reforms, Vietnam will play host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders' Meeting in Da Nang on Nov 10-11. Given the rapidly changing world and this dynamic region, the summit has great significance in terms of economic and strategic matters.
Whether the Government will have to re-negotiate existing trade deals to bring in a ban on foreign home buyers has been left in the air, with new Trade Minister David Parker saying he's now received advice contradicting what the previous minister claimed.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception on October 31 for new Bangladeshi Ambassador to Vietnam Samina Naz, during which he affirmed that Vietnam always pays great attention to developing partnership with the South Asian country.
US garment-textile and footwear businesses are seeking their own investment opportunities in Vietnam as their country has withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) earlier this year.
Vietnam has set up the Private Economic Development Research Board to make proposals on mechanism, policy and administrative procedure reforms relating to private economic development, the board's representatives said Tuesday.
In the ten months of this year so far, Vietnam reported record high foreign investment inflows, with $28 billion coming in, primarily from APEC economies. The figure is expected to increase to $30 billion by the end of the year.
Since Vietnam joined the APEC forum in 1998, the forum has become an important force supporting the country’s economic reform and restructuring, growth model shift and global economic integration
President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse chaired a rehearsal of activities of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in the central city of Da Nang on October 29.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang will actively provide legal support and disseminate legal regulations related to the investment law, business climate and labour in order to help local firms promote production and business in the remaining months of the year.
Nguyen Van Duoc, Deputy Chairman of the Long An People’s Committee, talked with VIR’s Truc Giang about the potential, advantages, and the fields Long An province wants to attract investment from Japanese investors.
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