(VOV) - Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty shops, has announced the opening of a new parlour at the Pearl Plaza in Ho Chi Minh City.

(VOV) - The 2015 year-end Vietnam Business Forum (VBF) officially opened in Hanoi on December 1 under the theme “Enhancing Enterprise Competitiveness for Global Integration”. 

DC Developing Markets Strategies and Norges Bank Investment Management, both under the management of Dragon Capital, have announced they will buy additional shares in Vinamilk.

(VOV) - Vinhomes Investors Club, which promises to be a premier real estate investment club providing quality real estate investment education and resources for its members, guests and friends, has officially launched, according to its President Huynh Du An. 

Airbus Group has written to the Vietnamese Government expressing its interest in establishing a new aircraft components factory in Vietnam.

A number of active and technology-driven Japanese companies met with local businesses in northern Hai Duong province on November 27 to seek to establish partnerships for new projects. 

Telemor, Viettel’s subsidiary in Timor Leste, has expanded quickly after its entry in 2013 and now has 470,000 users among the country’s population of 1.2 million. 

(VOV) - EurowindowNhaTrang Tourism Investment Joint Stock Company and US- based Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group – one of the world’s largest hotel groups on November 25 signed a contract to manage Radisson Blu Cam Ranh hotel project.

There are two paths for the leaders of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to follow after SOEs equitized, either becoming hired workers or civil servants at state agencies. In fact, there is another choice – retirement.

As part of Microsoft’s long-term commitment to Vietnam’s future, Jean-Philippe Courtois, Microsoft International president, met with executive leaders from leading businesses to discuss the company’s strong efforts to bolster cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, application development, and infrastructure management skills.

A delegation of nearly 40 businesses from Japan’s Setouchi and Oita prefectures took part in a programme promoting food exporters’ connectivity in Ho Chi Minh City on November 24. 

Public investment restructuring is still sluggish and has not focused on measures improving investment effectiveness, many experts pointed out at a seminar in Hanoi on November 24. 

(VOV) - Milwaukee based AO Smith Corp (NYSE:AOS), a world leader in the manufacture of water heaters, has unveiled plans to make a series of strategic investments to expand operations into southern Vietnam.

A one-week visit to HCM City from November 23 by executives from eight German wind energy companies will offer the opportunity for wind-power companies in the two countries to build partnerships and boost implementation of projects in the sector.

Recent positive movements in Vietnam’s investment-business climate are expected to make the country more attractive to the global business community.

The equitization of a series of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) will end with a large part of public assets falling into the hands of a group of ‘the super rich’. 

The long-awaited governmental decree detailing and guiding the implementation of some clauses in the new Law on Investment was last week issued, containing clear regulations on investment procedures towards foreign investors.

(VOV) - Vietnam private companies’ overseas financial investment in the 10 months leading up to November expanded by US$625 million, reports the Foreign Investment Department (FID) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

(VOV) - Thousands of industry professionals have registered to attend the 1st edition of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Exhibition, November 25-27, at the Vietnam Exhibition Fair Centre in Hanoi, according to the organizers. 

(VOV) - Hanwha Group from the Republic of Korea (RoK) is destined to build a US$200 million solar power plant with a capacity of 100-200 MW in the central ThuaThien Hue province.

France’s InVivo NSA Group will partner with a company based in Phu Yen province to cultivate maize on a trial basis in the central locality of Vietnam.

(VOV) - A seminar on November 18 in Hanoi discussed innovative approaches to how the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Vietnam might better work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems.

(VOV) - A Republic of Korea’s business delegation representing 50 firms will attend the Korea Vietnam Show in Hanoi on December 2-3, according to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency.

The land rent in industrial zones (IZs) has been increasing, while offices and apartments are believed to escalate soon. The real estate has heated up on the good news about TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement) and other free trade agreements (FTAs).

Logistics trading is not provided adequate conditions for development in Vietnam though it is considered a cash cow sector, Nguyen Cam Tu, deputy minister of Industry and Trade, said.

In an exclusive interview on a recent visit to Vietnam, Citi CEO Mike Corbat discussed Citi’s transformation into a simpler and safer institution that still banks companies and individuals across the world, and that is on track to meet its financial targets. 

Masan Group, one of Vietnam’s largest private firm, has set up a new state-of-the-art facility in the central province of Nghe An to improve its performance in the consumer food sector.

(VOV) - The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Hanoi has announced that 15 of its nation’s companies will host a business forum on November 17 at the Melia Hanoi Hotel at 44B Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoan Kiem starting at 10:00 am.

(VOV) - Phung Tuan Long from the Vietnam Embassy in Thailand headed a delegation attending the grand opening of the 2015 Science and Technology Fair on November 14 in Nonthaburi, Thailand.

Major projects in hospitality and tourism have turned the naturally beautiful Phu Quoc island into a magnet for tourists.