The United Kingdom (UK) wants to boost its investment in Ho Chi Minh City, especially in the fields of planning, project management and smart urban development, said Baroness Fairhead, Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion at the UK Department for International Trade.

Nearly VND5 trillion (US$216.5 million) will be invested in building a solar power plant in the south-central coastal province of Ninh Thuan.

Da Nang is prepared to create favourable conditions for the Republic of Korea (RoK) to build a consulate office in the city while attracting Korean investors and tourists.

A conference to review 30 years of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam will be held in the first week of October 2018, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

While higher prices and low awareness have limited consumption in the domestic market, one firm is optimistic that this will change.  

A delegation from the Vietnam-Republic of Korea Association for Society, Economy, and Culture (COVESECA) visited the Red River Delta province of Ha Nam on July 4 to study the locality’s investment climate.

A Vietnamese conglomerate has put forward a plan to build a cable car connecting the tourist city of Hoi An and another district in the central province of Quang Nam, but it is facing the first challenge of large occupation.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc has lured 17 foreign-invested projects since the beginning of 2018, with total investment of over US$119.5 million, according to the provincial Department of Planning and Investment.

Businesses from Taiwan (China) have signed several agreements on agricultural cooperation with the Vietnam Organic Agri-Economy Institute after recent fact-finding trips to Tay Ninh, Dong Thap and Lam Dong provinces.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam called on Swiss investors to engage in Vietnam’s agricultural sector during a trade and investment promotion forum on agriculture in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 29.