(VOV) - Vietnam’s total new and supplementary capital reached US$13.33 billion in the first eight months of this year; up 30.4% from the same period last year.

The Vietnam economy is expected to see major changes after it signs the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which includes member countries that make up 40% of the world’s trade.

Foreign investors are showing interest in Vietnam’s infantile solar power sector, although a lack of state support mechanisms may hinder progress.

Tran Bac Ha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for the Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), said that the bank would raise the total available credit in Mekong Delta region. 

(VOV) -Measures to resolve difficulties and support the business and investment activities of overseas Vietnamese (OV) enterprises were discussed in a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 21.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s textile industry has continued to be a magnet for attracting inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in the seven months leading up to August, according to the latest official statistics. 

(VOV) - The structural construction on the first tower of the Blooming Tower project will officially be completed in October 2015, according to Sin Yong Kyu, General Director of the Korea Investment & Development on August 18.

Experience in budget decision, examination and oversight have been shared among representatives from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar together with foreign experts in finance-banking during the 6th joint workshop which opened in the central coastal city of Danang on August 17. 

The Japanese Hokugan Company intends to build an ocean tuna and other aquatic products processing plant in the Dong Tac fishing port, Tuy Hoa city of the central coastal province of Phu Yen in the near future. 

Investments in Vietnam by businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK) in the first six months of this year rose 82.2% year on year, said a report on the Sai Gon Giai phong newspaper.