Foreign-invested companies in the southern region are increasing investments and preparing for opportunities after Vietnam officially joins the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Tran-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Due to the poor competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural and livestock products, agriculture will be significantly impacted by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). However, it will also be a driving force for the institutional reform of Vietnamese agriculture.

Healthcare policy makers and leading intellectuals from the healthcare sector across Asia gathered at the Future Trends Forum held in Hanoi on November 12-13.

Hanoi will organise three important international trade fairs in November 2018 to help promote regional specialities as well as boost business co-operation and exports.

Ever since the ASEAN Economic Community was established at the end of 2015, businesses in Vietnam have been gradually capitalising on the bloc’s import tariff cuts to swell their exports, helping to narrow down an on-going trade deficit between Vietnam and other ASEAN markets.

The Vietnamese government has insisted that regulations requiring foreign service providers such as Facebook and Google to establish branches or representative offices in Vietnam is justified and in line with international standards.

VNPT is increasing co-operation with global technology groups to realize its target to become a 4.0 telecommunication company.

While the government is working to integrate its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into a National Action Plan, a large number of enterprises still have not built specific programmes to implement these goals.   

BASF has kicked off the eighth annual BASF Kids’ Lab at KizCiti Edutainment Center, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City. In partnership with the city Department of Education and Training, the event offered primary students an opportunity to learn about the world of chemistry on November 9-10, 2018

Economist Vo Tri Thanh, former deputy director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), said that the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will change the “integration battle” in Vietnam in the coming years.