A Japanese institutional investor, Mizuho ASEAN Investment LP, has invested US$9.3 million in Pham Nguyen Confectionery Company Ltd. 

VOV.VN - A ban on Mango shipments from Vietnam to Australia is to be lifted, according to a post by the Chinhphu online newspaper.

SynGience, a financial group from Singapore, signed a contract on April 10 with Minh Nguyen Long company and L&L-Luckyland company on the development of a property project worth VND400 billion (US$17.3 million) in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese start-ups need consultancy supports on tax policies, legal, finance and accounting, as well as training courses to help them become professional entrepreneurs.

The Government has offered financial support to the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex) for training the labour force in the textile and garment industry this year.

Vietnam’s lenders are gathering speed, posting the second-highest growth by country in this year’s ranking of the top 100 banks in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Pham Nguyen Foods, a known producer of choco pies and crackers in Vietnam, has received US$9.3 million from Mizuho Asia Partners Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Mizuho Financial Group, according to local media.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade aims to announce the results of the investigation into seven multi-level marketing companies this May.

Many foreign enterprises are keen on investing in the Vietnamese mining market due to the country’s huge mineral resources awaiting exploitation.

Analysts believe that four Asian conglomerates are powerful enough to make big changes in some Vietnam’s industries if they succeed with their M&A deals.

Singapore's property developer Keppel Land Limited has subscribed for VND500 billion (US$22.07 million) worth of convertible bonds issued by Vietnamese real estate company Nam Long Investment Corporation.

In its recent "South by Southeast - Vietnam Q2 Update: Still Firm but Agriculture is a Soft Spot" report, ANZ writes that Vietnam remains the only Asian economy bucking the regional trade recession. 

Holding important positions and huge amounts of shares, many businessmen have received salaries and bonuses of hundreds of billions of dong for 2015.

The Association of Vietnamese Entrepreneurs in Italy (ASSOEVI) and the Italy –Vietnam Chamber of Commerce (CCIV) signed a cooperation agreement in the northern Italian city of Milan on April 8. 

Vietnamese Ambassador to India Ton Sinh Thanh has called for accelerating overland, railway, waterway and airway connectivity between northeast India and ASEAN countries as well as facilitating Indian trade with its neighbouring countries.

Italy will benefit most from the EU-Vietnam free trade agreement (EVFTA), former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta commented at a seminar held recently in the northern Italian city of Milan. 

Malaysia and the European Union has initialed the text of the Malaysia-EU Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (MEUPCA), according to the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vietnam saw a reduction in its trade deficit with China in the first quarter of 2016, raising expectations of an ongoing decline in this deficit for the whole year.

FECOBA – the federation of commerce and industry of Buenos Aires and Argentina’s confederation of enterprises CAME recently organised a workshop on trade opportunities with Vietnam in Argentina.

Canada, the world’s third largest pork exporter, is seeking to expand its market in Vietnam, where a growing middle class has driven demand for meat products. 

Australian agencies are finalizing procedures to allow Vietnamese exporters to ship mangoes into the market, said a source from the Vietnam Business Association.

A lot of Vietnamese businessmen nurture plans to ‘do big business’. Some of them have succeeded, while others have tasted failure, but they do not give up, still awaiting new opportunities.

Opening the market widely to foreign investors and developing infrastructure were the two important hallmarks of the Vietnam economy in the last 10 years under the management of the government headed by Nguyen Tan Dung, who has just resigned from the post of Prime Minister.

Vietnam is the only country to achieve an impressive export-import growth in 2015 among the 30 leading export-import economies of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to the report “World Trade 2016 and Prospects 2016” announced by WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo.

The Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA) will host a public consultation meeting on May 5 to collect opinions from agencies and businesses on the duties imposed on imported steel.

The Saigon Hi-Tech Park Incubation Centre (SHTP-IC) put into operation an Innovation Lab on April 8 in order to promote research, creativity and start-ups in business incubation projects.

VOV.VN - Vingroup was successful at the prestigious Asia Pacific Property Awards in Kuala Lumpur, according to an announcement by the company’s public relations department.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA) on April 5 announced the ‘Final Results of the Administrative Review’ of the antidumping duty order imposed by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) on certain frozen fish fillets imported from Vietnam.

The first 100 hi-tech and environmentally-friendly Renault-branded electric cars will arrive in Vietnam in June.

Vietnam’s consumption of electronic and electrical appliances is expected to rise from 7.3% to 11.9% by 2020, thanks to a new focus on its youthful consumers.