Germany’s pharmaceutical company B. Braun Melsungen AG is planning to invest an additional US$270 million in Vietnam in order to satisfy increasing healthcare demand across the globe.

Despite macroeconomic challenges, spending in Vietnam for IT services increased by 9.9% to US$446 million in 2013, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).

To develop its support industries, HCM City needs to identify the main sectors and focus on training, technology, and incentives for their development, experts told a seminar on attracting investment in the sectors last week.

(VOV) - Ocean Hospitality-OCH has been listed in the top 50 most effective businesses in Vietnam, according to the results of an annual survey by Nhip Cau Dau Tu magazine in coordination with Thien Viet Securities Company. 

(VOV) - International experts shared experience with Vietnamese partners in institutional reform at an international conference in Hanoi on June 29.

(VOV) - The historical trade relationship between Vietnam and China has always been one-sided, with Vietnam incurring consistent deficits, according to a leading official at the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang presided over a meeting held in Gia Lai province on June 28, reviewing the implementation of socio-economic development goals set for the Central Highlands in the first half of 2014 and outlining key tasks for the remainder of the year.

(VOV) - Over 450 representatives of the local business community attended a June 28 conference in Quang Ninh discussing coordinated marketing efforts aimed at increasing the investment attractiveness of the province.

(VOV) - Agro-forestry-fishery exports jumped up 12.7% to US$14.88 billion in the first six months of the year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) reported on June 27.

(VOV) - Sapa Group on June 26 signed a deal to expand its operations in Vietnam, pumping an additional US$8 million into its Sapa TBG joint venture with Ben Thanh Group (BTG).

(VOV) - Vietnam fetched US$2.12 billion from exporting 1.04 million tonnes of coffee in the first half of the year, up 31.7% in volume and 24.7% in value over last year’s same period.

(VOV) -Tamada Vietnam, an affiliate of Japan’s Tamada Industries Inc. commenced construction on a metal tank manufacturing plant in Dinh Vu Industrial Zone (DVIZ) in the northern province of Haiphong on June 27.

Ho Chi Minh City needs to zone specific areas for support and high-tech industries in its industrial parks in order to drive the development of these fields, a business insider has said.

(VOV) - Vietnam backs stronger cooperation efforts in the mining industry with regard to trade exchange and investment cooperation, to realise the Bogor goals and the goals of APEC member states.

(VOV) - The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Galati city, East Romania, and the Vietnamese embassy in Romania jointly held a June 24 seminar on investment and business opportunities in Vietnam.

(VOV) -Financial experts of Vietnam and Laos met in capital Vientiane of Laos on June 27 to examine ways to strengthen State budget management.

(VOV) -The first phase of a 220km high-speed railway project, connecting Laos’ Savannakhet province with Lao Bao Border Gate on the Laos-Vietnam border will get off the ground in December.

(VOV) - Vietnam achieved GDP growth of 5.25% in the second quarter of this year, bringing the six-month rate to 5.18%, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The 2014 Vietnam -Myanmar Trade, Service, Tourism Fair (Ho Chi Minh City Expo) kicked off in Yangon city, Myanmar on June 26, displaying a variety of wares from leading Vietnamese businesses.

The southern province of Binh Duong wants to further its cooperation with Dutch localities, especially in hi-tech projects.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and Metro Cash & Carry launched Vietnamese Goods Days in Germany on June 26 aiming to boost exports to European consumers and distribution channels. 

(VOV) - Vietnam has clinched a deal for the sale of 200 tonnes of rice to the Philippines to increase the National Food Authority’s stockpile of emergency rice reserves, official sources report.

Vietnam and Laos have agreed to intensify inspection work following the “one-stop-shop” model at the Lao Bao-Dansavanh international border gates.

(VOV) - Wood processing exports are likely to reach from US$6-6.2 billion this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). 

(VOV) - Vietnam has great potential for developing agriculture, said Japan’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Hayashi Yoshimasa at the first Vietnam-Japan high-level dialogue on agricultural cooperation in Hanoi on June 26. 

(VOV) - Seafood exports hit US$536 million in June, bringing the total export value to US$3.45 billion for the first half of the year, up 24.2% over the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

(VOV) - CMC Corporation has announced that it has formed a wholly owned subsidiary called CMC Institute of Research and Development (CIRD) infused with an initial charter capital of VND5 billion.

(VOV) - A seminar was held in Seoul on June 26, attended by a Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai, discussing cooperation in the food processing industry.

(VOV) - Newly registered foreign investment surpassed US$692.3 million in the first half of the year, an astonishing jump of US$270 million over the comparable period last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).

(VOV) - The impact of tax incentive and other preferential policies on attracting foreign-invested enterprises (FDI) and their advanced technologies was the topic under discussion at a seminar held in Hanoi on June 26.