Truong Viet Dung, deputy director of the Hanoi’s Department of Planning and Investment, speaks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper on what the city has done to become a leader in attracting foreign investment.

Improving corporate governance capacity is a major challenge for businesses, especially small-and-medium sized enterprises when joining the EVFTA, requiring the Government to have policies and mechanisms to facilitate their operation.

The investors selected to develop the North-South Expressway will have to have successfully developed at least one similar project in an overseas market.

Vietnamese forward Cong Phuong is poised to sign a one-year contract with Belgium side Sint-Truidense in Ho Chi Minh City on July 5.

Contributions from import taxes to the state budget will fall by nearly VND44t trillion ($1.88 billion) in 2020 after several free trade agreements took effect.

Vietcombank, JBIC sign contract for renewable energy projects

As of June 24 ASF had broken out in 60 of the country’s 63 provinces and cities, and more than 2.6 million pigs had to be culled, severely affecting the pork demand-supply balance.

FPT Corporation targets to have 10,000 software engineers working in the central city of Da Nang by 2023, making the city a centre of digital human resources.

Vinalines moves shareholders’ meeting to end of July

Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6.76 per cent in the first half of this year, the second highest rate since 2011.

More than 51 million Vietnamese access the internet, social media and apps through their smartphones daily, according to a recently released report by Appota Corporation.

Bamboo Airways, a subsidiary of real estate developer FLC Group, will begin the construction of an aviation training centre this month, said its CEO Dang Tat Thang.

The export value of wood and wood products reached nearly 5 billion USD in the first half of 2019, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam attracted a total of US$7.5 billion in fresh investments from China, including Hong Kong, in the first half of this year, which is more than 30% higher than in all of 2018.

Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) could face difficulties in its electricity supply in the coming time due to the shortage of water, coal and gas for power production.

Inspectors from the Ministry of Construction have halted construction of a large golf project in Ha Nam Province after the investors failed to show construction permit.

Vietnam will have approximately 5,000 MW of solar power in a very near future.

Vietnam’s trade turnover in the January – June period hit US$245.48 billion, an all-time high recorded for the six-month period, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has said in a monthly report.

Japanese companies with abundant expertise in many fields such as banking, insurance, construction, logistics, accounting, graphic design, among others, are expected to have greater opportunities in Vietnam’s market.

US President Donald Trump expressed his strong support for the US – Vietnam bilateral relations, welcoming recent efforts from the Vietnamese government against trade fraud.