(VOV) - Improving the supply chains in Ho Chi Minh City to support industrial development is a top priority, said Chief representative Yasuzumi Hirotaka of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).

Vietnamese startups have become more and more attractive to angel investors, seed-funds and series A-funds, both domestic and foreign.

Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) is in negotiations over a strategic stake at Vietnam Airlines, and the two parties are expected to finalize the deal in the first quarter of 2016.

Japanese businesses from the Kansai region have said they are interest in the Vietnamese market, and keen on expanding trade and investment connection with Vietnamese partners, especially in supporting industry, in the time ahead.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told a Global Investment Forum convened recently in Hanoi that the number of state-own enterprises has dropped by 90% from roughly 12,000 over the past two decades.

Foreign invested enterprises now can more easily list their shares on Vietnamese stock markets under Decree 60 that allows foreign investors to hold up to 100% of stake in Vietnamese enterprises.

Vietnam aims to reduce processing time for commercial disputes to 200 working days from the current 400 working days, as the country continued with administrative reforms to improve its business environment.

(VOV) - The Investment Promotion Agency of Quang Ninh province on October 5 held a seminar in an aggressive move to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction in the province that drew a large gathering of foreign companies. 

(VOV) - The German Industry and Commerce (GIC) in Vietnam has unveiled in a press release that a contingent of representatives from 10 businesses will visit Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on October 12-16 to explore trade and investment opportunities.

Ascendas, Asia’s leading business space solutions provider, and its joint venture partner, Saigon Bund Capital Partners, on October 1 celebrated the ground breaking of OneHub Saigon, a 12-hectare integrated business park development located at Saigon Hi-tech Park (SHTP) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.