President of the French National Assembly Claude Bartolone has said he wants to hold exchanges with Vietnam’s relevant agencies on how to increase the investment of French businesses in Vietnam, during his ongoing visit to the Southeast Asian country.

Thousands of high-capacity rice-drying stations have been built across the Mekong Delta region in a bid to increase post-harvest quality.

A conference to disseminate information on a number of the free trade agreements (FTAs) to which Vietnam is a signatory was opened in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on March 18. 

Vehicles passing through the newly-built Hanoi-Haiphong Expressway and the National Highway No5 will soon have to pay between 25% and 50% more as toll. 

Vietnam Soya Products Company (Vinasoy) began construction on its third plant in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP 2A) in the southern province of Binh Duong on March 18 to meet increasing demand in the domestic market and its export expansion target.

GreenFeed Vietnam JSC on March 18 inaugurated a factory producing animal feed in the northern province of Ha Nam.

Vietnam should enact large macroeconomic reforms in order to lift growth and catch up with other economies, Christine Largarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said on March 17 at a meeting with students of the National Economics University.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City should take heed to transport with a focus on developing public transport, and invest more in infrastructure.

Ho Chi Minh City hopes to cooperate with Honeywell in its development projects, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said on March 17.

VOV.VN - Vietnam Airlines (VNA) held a seminar in China on March 17 showcasing Vietnam’s land and people and VNA new products to Chinese people.

Vietnam will become a new industrial center in the world, while its products such as footwear and garments will enjoy big benefits when TPP takes effect.

Foreign investors have shown their interest in the value of the hotline of the HCM City Party Secretary Dinh La Thang and expect that the transparency of the investment environment will improve.

Big money has been poured into pearl projects in Vietnam, which has a long coastline of 3,600 kilometers, but profits have sometimes been unsatisfactory.

The result of the bidding for supermarket chain Big C Vietnam is going to be announced this week, according to newswire cafef.vn

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is expected to have a positive influence on the Vietnamese stock market, said Tran Dac Sinh, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE)’s Board of Directors.

A programme to connect enterprises operating in the supporting industry from Japan, Vietnam and ASEAN countries took place in Ho Chi Minh City on March 16-17. 

Ho Chi Minh City is employing a host of measures to press on with attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), especially in high-tech and hi-tech support industries. 

Fresh players are eagerly stepping into the local peachy fruit juice market. Nafoods Group JSC, one of several major domestic juice companies in Vietnam, is increasing investment capital to expand its market share.

VOV.VN - The huge potential of the Vietnam pharmaceuticals market is impossible for foreign companies to ignore, said Ravi Uduy Bhaskar at a March 17 trade exchange in Ho Chi Minh City.

Dairy company FrieslandCampina Vietnam has been rated one of 20 Best Places to Work in 2015 in a poll done by executive search company Anphabe and global market survey giant Nielsen.

VOV.VN - A private-equity arm of Standard Chartered Plc and Goldman Sachs have invested a combined US$28 million in Vietnamese start-up M_Service, the operator of mobile e-wallet MoMo, the companies have unveiled in a joint statement.

The domestic steel market has seen a price surge and hoarding before temporary safeguard measures recently imposed on two types of steel imports into the Southeast Asian country, experts said.

The world's leading mobile phone manufacturer Apple Inc. plans to invest up to US$1 billion to build an Asia-focused database center in Vietnam, according to local media.

Vietnam shipped abroad approximately 440,000 tonnes of rice in February, up 5.44% against last month and 117% from a year ago, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). 

Singapore's Orchid Capital Investments has become the second foreign investor to sell off its stake in Vietnamese consumer giant Masan Group Corp., since the beginning of this year, according to a Vietnamese media.

VOV.VN - Thai businesses had invested US$7.88 billion in 428 projects in Vietnam during the first two months of this year, ranking 11 out of 112 foreign investors in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) has been cited byJapan’s Nikkei Asian Review in the Asia 300 list (Asia’s most dynamic companies). 

VN Index will climb to reach the highest level since 2008 as a rising economy and earnings draw investors, Bloomberg Business news reported on March 15. 

VOV.VN - On March 17, Hoa Sen Group started construction on a plant covering 20.4ha at the cluster of Kien Khe I industrial parks of northern Ha Nam Province at a cost of VND3,000 billion.

Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang met with about 50 German and overseas Vietnamese businesspeople at Vietnam Trade Office in Berlin on March 16 as part of his working visit to Germany to boost trade and investment between the two countries.