Vietnam’s startup scene, which has a higher concentration of companies relative to population than India or China at 1,500, are catching the eye of foreign funds. And the demographics look good too.
In recent years, Japanese visitors have ranked first or second in the top 10 of foreign visitors to the city, and the number of Vietnamese visitors to Japan has also increased significantly.
Economists last Friday urged the Government to tighten management of public spending to reduce the budget deficit and to ease pressures caused by the public debt.
Economists have renewed calls for the government to take tougher action on further truncating the state’s commercial interest in enterprises, as proposed in the high-profile Vietnam 2035 Report released recently.
More than 60 percent startups have been using information technology (IT) in their business. Small and medium enterprises now tend to use IT to create their competitiveness, but the IT application index still remains modest.
This central city is seeking a US$51.74 million loan to fund the Traffic Infrastructure Improvement Project for 2016-19.
Vietnam could only escape the middle-income trap by developing the manufacturing and industry sector to create new products, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) heard yesterday.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh and US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken compared notes on measures to enhance the relationship between Việt Nam and the US in the time ahead during their meeting in Hà Nội yesterday.
The government has conducted random inspections regarding software copyrights at half a thousand companies in the last ten years. Counterfeit software used by enterprises is still rampant and puts them at high risk of cyber crime during this time of global integration.
The Ministry of Labours, Invalid and Social Affairs has met with the Thai foreign and labour ministries to discuss Vietnamese migrant workers in Thailand.
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