Bamboo Capital Group (BCG) and 1-5 Auto Joint Stock Company on December 24 signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement.

Sapphire JSC invited early purchasers of HOLM Residences as VIP guests to December’s esteemed four-day Ho Tram Open 2015, an Asian Tour sanctioned professional golf event.

After five years of surveying and researching Vietnam market, Emart - the leading Korean retailer under Shinsegae group will officially launch the Emart hypermarket for the first time in Vietnam on December 28.

US design firm Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners (MRY)’s first project in Vietnam, the GoldSeason residential project in Hanoi, is going on sales on December 27. 

In the joyful atmosphere to welcome Christmas and New Year 2016, Bayer Vietnam in collaboration with Live and Learn volunteering network organised an “Eco-talking” programme and fun education activities for more than 200 students at Dat Cuoc Primary School in the southern province of Binh Duong.

As of December 21, 2015, the Vietnam International Bank (VIB) became the first bank in Vietnam to introduce online current account and term deposit account opening with activation service at customer’s chosen location without the need to visit a VIB branch.

The Japan International Co-operation Agency is expanding its support for Vietnam to develop the country’s hi-tech agro-fishery sector through more Japanese agricultural investment projects.

The lack of a public-private partnership project list from the Vietnamese government is among many obstacles discouraging private foreign investors from investing in these projects in Vietnam.

Asbestos has been an important construction material for Vietnam and a valuable export product over the previous years, however, in 2014 the Vietnamese government decided to phase out production and use of the material, given its adverse impact on human health.

Vietnam may sue the US Department of Agricultural Food Safety Inspection Service over its new regulations, which will make it extremely difficult for tra fish farmers to qualify their exports for the US market.