VOV.VN - Korean based Taekwang Corporation, a partner of the world's leading sports brand Nike, has broken ground on a running shoe factory in the city of Can Tho located in the southern Vietnam Mekong Delta region.

 The southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City has attracted US$2.3 billion in foreign direct investment in the nine months of this year. 

Lebanese businesses wish to seek opportunities in Vietnam, Naji Mouzannar from the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (LCCIA) said at a seminar on September 27.

The fate of the long-delayed Vina Universal Paradise Trade and Service Complex (Vina Universal Paradise), invested by Tan Tao Group subsidiary Vina Film Studio and Tourism Zone Investment JSC, will be decided within a week.

Many investors are rushing to develop software park projects in Hanoi. Experts, warning about ‘software park inflation’, say that investors have ‘other purposes’ when eyeing such projects.

90% of the apartments have been registered for sale in S2 tower of the apartment and mall complex Sun Grand City Thuy Khue Residence at the official launch on September 18 in Hanoi.

The Management Board of Industrial Parks (IPs) in the northern province of Bac Giang granted investment licences to 34 projects with a total registered capital of more than US$465.6 million in the first nine months of this year.

The Vietnam Construction and Import-Export Corporation 2 (Vinaconex 2) began building Block B of the Kim Van-Kim Lu (Golden Silk) project in a new urban area of Hanoi in Dai Kim Ward of Hoang Mai district on September 22. 

VOV.VN - Up to August this year, Russian businesses had invested in 111 projects with a registered capital of US$1.05 billion. With this result, Russia now ranks 23 out of 112 foreign countries and territories that have invested in Vietnam.

Nikkei quoted a representative of Mitra Adiperkasa, the operator of Zara retail stores in Vietnam, as saying that the firm would open more Zara stores in Vietnam next year.

Many globally renowned investment funds have shown interest in the Vietnamese property market after announcing investment deals worth tens of millions of dollars in potential real estate firms.

VOV.VN - Viettel experienced strong growth in the first half of 2016 with total revenue estimated to have jumped 13% year-on-year to US$493.8 million, according to a report by GSMA Intelligence.

Unisoll Vina company under Hansoll Textile Ltd. of the Republic of Korea began operating in Giao Long industrial park, Chau Thanh district, the southern province of Ben Tre, on September 20.

Japan’s WWB Corporation will build a solar power plant in Dong Phu district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc, according to Binh Phuoc province’s People’s Committee. 

Though they followed methodical production methods, many Vietnamese tycoons, who have succeeded in their core business fields, have harvested bitter fruit in the agricultural industry.

Domestic real estate developers seem to surpass foreign investors in the race to gain investment opportunities in golden land plots of Ho Chi Minh City.

Despite concerns about the feasibility of Chinese JA Solar’s solar cell production project in the northern province of Bac Giang, the investor has committed to increasing the investment capital to US$450 million, US$130 million higher than the initially sum.

A dynamic investment climate has made the southern city of Ho Chi Minh a magnet to conglomerates from the Republic of Korea (RoK) like Samsung, Lotte and CJ.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau will need US$100 million for a project for development and climate change adaption in the province’s capital – Ca Mau City. 

A representative of DunAn Sensing said the company was ready to invest in the first sensor factory in HCM City at a recent meeting with city leaders. 

VOV.VN - Vice Chair Nhu Van Tam of the Thai Nguyen Provincial People’s Committee offered opening remarks on September 16 at a trade and investment seminar in New York addressing business opportunities for foreign companies.

VOV.VN - LG Innotek Co Ltd, a subsidiary company of the Republic of Korea's LG Group, has been licenced to build a camera module plant in Haiphong City.

VOV.VN - A consortium led by Ho Chi Minh City based Truman Holdings has unveiled plans to develop four luxury residential, hotel and retail complexes at locations across Vietnam over the next four years.

VOV.VN - CJ Group from the Republic of Korea has announced that it will cooperate with Saigon Trading Group (SATRA) to expand food trading in Vietnam.

Foreign direct investment in Ho Chi Minh City’s real estate sector continues to rise across residential, office, and retail segments.

VOV.VN - A doing business in Vietnam forum was held on September 13 in Hanoi, bringing together some of the key actors in Japan’s Kansai region and Vietnam business and government circles. 

The role of international “angel investors” in Vietnam’s startup ecosystem was discussed at a seminar in Hanoi on September 12.

Hoa Sen Group (HSG)’s $10.6-billion industrial zone, steel manufacturing and port complex set to be built in the central province of Ninh Thuan will have to comply with more stringent rules than Taiwanese company Formosa’s complex in Ha Tinh.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has approved in principle to allow Binh Duong Investment and Trade JSC (Becamex ITC) to study the development of a software and digital content park in the capital’s Dong Anh district, according to newswire Cafef.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan has agreed to provide assistance to Danang Port in connection with a feasibility study of proposed renovations to the Lien Chieu Port.