Ho Chi Minh City should become a special economic zone, modeled on Shanghai, in order to win back its position as Southeast Asia’s leading economy, the secretary of the municipal Party Committee has said.
Viet Nam is expected to attract a number of investors of transport infrastructure projects under the public-private partnership (PPP) model this year.
The Malaysian Public Bank Berhad (PBB) received a 100 per cent foreign-owned bank licence from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) last week.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) sent a business delegation to the State of Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman from May 6-14 to carry out trade promotion activities in an effort to boost cooperation with Middle East countries.
Many Iranian firms in the industry and mining sectors are expressing interest in the Vietnamese market and wish to expand trade between the two nations.
The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement will open an important gate for investor access to the government procurement market, with win-win opportunities for investors, state agencies, and the Vietnamese people.
Over the past decade, it has become clear that the way we measure the value of businesses has changed completely.
The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement as well as other FTAs which Vietnam agreed upon will bring extensive changes to the Vietnamese market.
Negotiations on the EU-Vietnam Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) to promote the implementation of the EU’s Forest Legality Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Program are expected to finish later this year.
Even as Vietnam’s textile industry seeks to derive the maximum advantage from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the sector is grappling with low labour productivity and a serious shortage of textile and dyeing materials.
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