Business opportunities introduced at London seminar
(VOV) - Vietnam is a reliable partner which has joined many bilateral and multilateral agreements and a potential destination for foreign investors, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Ho Thi Kim Thoa.
At a seminar held in London on March 3 by the UK-ASEAN Business Council (UKABC), Ms Thoa introduced investment and business opportunities in Vietnam, emphasising that the country has actively restructured and completed the legal system and improved the investment environment to facilitate and create an equal and transparent environment for investors.
She hoped that the seminar will provide businesses with update information about cooperation, investment and business opportunities in Vietnam, and help lift trade relations between the two countries to a new height in line with their potential.
Lord Puttman, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, said UK businesses should be patient to set up relations and build up trust with Vietnamese partners in order to promote business opportunities in the dynamic market.
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Speakers at the seminar, including Ms Thoa, Mr. Dang Hoang Hai, Head of the European Market Department under the MoIT, and UK Consul General and Director of Trade and Investment in HCM City, Douglas Barnes, answered participants’ questions on granting construction licences to foreign investors to Vietnam, policies allowing foreigners to buy houses, opportunities to invest in transport and healthcare projects and chances for UK small-sized businesses to operate in Vietnam.
The seminar was held on the sidelines of the 8th session of the Vietnam-UK Joint Economic and Trade Commission (JETCO 8).