The 2024 Vietnam Industrial Architecture Awards have honoured eight outstanding architectural projects at a prestigious event held in Ho Chi Minh City.

The number of passengers being refused entry at airports across the country has increased sharply, reported the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

The food and beverage (F&B) sector of Vietnam has long been an attractive and potentially lucrative market for both foreign and domestic investors, despite facing numerous challenges, insiders affirmed at the Flavours Vietnam 2024 conference in Ho Chi Minh City on September 19.

Clear regulations, bankable projects, the pooling of concessional and commercial capital, and climate capacity are four keys that can unlock the climate finance market, a forum heard in Ho Chi Minh City on September 19.

Vietnam's national credit rating is making significant strides toward achieving the official 'Investment' ranking.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on September 17 reduced the interest rate on the open market operation (OMO) channel from 4.25% to 4% per year.

The Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank – HOSE: HDB) and Proparco, a French development finance institution, have signed a credit facility worth US$50 million in HCM City on September 16.

Japanese firms Sun Frontier and Cosmos Housing have started constructing two property projects in the beach city, sparking the recovery of the deadlocked real estate market.

The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in Vietnam is showing signs of resurgence in the final months of the year, with multiple companies announcing successful deal closures.

Foreign investors poured a total of US$2.4 billion into the real estate market of Vietnam in the first eight months of this year, five times the level over the same period last year, according to the latest updates from the General Statistics Office (GSO).