The northern province of Vinh Phuc has granted an investment licence to a company from the Republic of Korea to produce mobile spare parts and electronic devices for Samsung.

In the next 15 years, Ireland’s fastest growing trade partners will be Asian economies like Vietnam, India and Malaysia, unveiled a recent report from HSBC.

(VOV) - There is a risk in Vietnam of expecting too much in the way of improved international competitiveness from technology transfer from foreign invested enterprises, according to Christian Brix Moller, the Danish Ambassador to Vietnam. 

(VOV) - The PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertiliser Company introduced its fertiliser products to Cambodia at a ceremony in Phnom Penh on May 28.

(VOV) - Vietnam-Mexico bilateral trade value hit US$2.26 billion last year, a year-on-year rise of 40% and stood at US$774 million for the first quarter of this year.

Economic expert Pham Chi Lan has called on authorities to focus on developing supporting industries and improving skills of workers as a new approach to entice foreign investors rather than resorting to land and tax incentives.

Transparency is an important element in improving the productivity of a business and gaining the trust and loyalty of stakeholders, a forum heard in HCM City on May 28.

The concentration of resources in the hands of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) allegedly created barriers to reforms, said experts from the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM).

A conference on telecommunication and mobile devices was organised by the Israeli Embassy in Vietnam on May 28, bringing together six leading Israeli corporations and Vietnamese firms active in the industry.

As liquidity increases in the real estate market, opportunities are arising in Ho Chi Minh City’s up-market housing sector.

The Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) has increasingly become a valuable and reliable tool for supervising the implementation of policies, Dr Pham Thi Hong, Deputy Director of the Centre for Fostering Personnel and Scientific Research (CFOSR), announced at a conference in central Quang Nam province on May 28.

Vietnam’s first trade promotion office in China was inaugurated in Chong Qing city on May 28.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest economic hub, recorded a positive economic growth rate in May and throughout the first five months of 2015, a conference heard on May 28. 

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh asked the Government of Myanmar to consider simplifying administrative procedures and granting investment licences to Vietnamese businesses in the near future. 

Masan Group, one of Vietnam’s largest private companies, has announced that it had successfully purchased 99.99% of the stock in Sam Kim Co Ltd and renamed the company Masan Nutri-Science.

Construction firm Keangnam Enterprises Inc. of the Republic of Korea (RoK) has been given the green light by the Seoul Central District Court on May 27 to sell a skyscraper in Hanoi in a bid to handle its liquidity crisis, Yonhap news agency reported. 

(VOV) - For the first five months this year, despite the significant decline in exports of many other agricultural products, cash nut exports still grew to 14.4% in volume and 27.3% in value against the same period last year.

(VOV) - The Vietnam Economic Report (VER) 2015 gives two scenarios for growth and inflation. Accordingly, growth may reach 6.1% and inflation will cap-off at 1.9% (scenario 1) or an overall growth of 6.3% with an inflation rate of 3.2% (scenario 2). 

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan organised a workshop for Japanese businesses from the Kansai region on investing in Vietnam. 

(VOV) - The AEON Shopping Mall Long Bien is expected to be inaugurated one month ahead of schedule, according to general director of AEON Vietnam Co, Ltd, Yasuo Nishitohge. 

Vietnam's index of industrial production (IIP) in the five four months of the year increased year-on-year by 9.2%, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said.

(VOV) - Argentina newspaper ‘Clarin’ on May 27 run an article, praising Vietnam’s economic achievements in recent years and economic and trade cooperation opportunities with the country.

Trang Tien, located in the heart of Hanoi, near Hoan Kiem Lake, is called the golden land because the land price here is the most expensive in the capital city as well as the country: about VND1 billion (nearly US$50,000/1sq.m).

A draft decree to regulate the salaries of high-ranking officials at State-owned and partially State-owned enterprises has been introduced for review by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

Positive results were seen in Vietnam’s socio-economic situation in May and the first five months of this year, but agriculture is facing severe difficulties, it was reported at the Government regular meeting on May 27. 

(VOV) -The Vietnam government has moved aggressively to style itself as a leader amid the global push to de-carbonize and reduce greenhouse emissions said Trinh Minh Anh, a Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) official.

Bkav Corporation on May 26 launched its first made-in-Vietnam smartphone, Bphone, which in development for more than four years.

Mark Cameron of the UK, who lives and works in Vietnam, believes that he will be able own residential property thanks to the revised Law on Housing, which has removed prior restrictions on foreigners from buying property in the country. 

(VOV) - Business failures in Vietnam fell by 0.5% to 3,884 in the first five months of the year compared with the corresponding period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) of Vietnam. 

(VOV) -Pakistan is heavily dependent upon steel imports from Vietnam to bridge the gap between domestic production and the nation’s demand a leading marketing agent and distributor in South Asia recently unveiled.