(VOV) -Inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) dipped 19.90% in the first seven months of 2014 year-on-year to US$9.53 billion, according to) the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).

(VOV) -The complexity of Vietnam’s business tax climate is not impeding the attraction of foreign investment, and oddly enough, is appealing to a corrupt element of investors using complexity and legal loopholes to their advantage.

(VOV) - With the Government’s open door policy, stable political environment and vast economic potential, many Japanese small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find Vietnam an attractive destination for business in Southeast Asia.

Better policies are needed to improve the capacity of support-industry companies, particularly electronics firms, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Cao Quoc Hung.

(VOV) - A senior French official said she will encourage French businesses to invest in large infrastructure construction projects in HCM City, including metro routes, water drainage systems and Long Thanh airport.

KinderWorld Education Group will soon conduct three investment projects in Vietnam’s northern Vinh Phuc province, said its Chairman Ricky Tan at a roundtable on investment opportunities in the province held in Singapore on July 18. 

A delegation of Japanese entrepreneurs has made a fact-finding tour of the northern province of Ha Nam to seek investment opportunities in the locality.

(VOV) -Many hold the misconception that the key to attracting investment is simply to offer more incentives. The theory is the more incentives offered the more foreign investors will flock to Vietnam.

The northern province of Thai Nguyen has directed its departments, agencies and authorities at grassroots levels to step up implementing an array of measures to improve its investment climate.

(VOV) - Roughly 51% of surveyed private investors revealed that they have plans to expand operations in Vietnam over the next 12 months, according to a Grant Thornton Vietnam report.

(VOV) -A large number of representatives from the Vietnamese business community attended a seminar in HCM City on July 8 focused on investment opportunities in the US in line with Vietnamese strengths.

(VOV) -Singaporean companies are highly confident that the Vietnam real estate market is on the pathway to sustainability, said Linson Lim, Keppel Land Vietnam General Director, one of the nation’s largest real estate investors.

The rising demand of foreign direct investment enterprises for raw materials has given local companies the chance to become suppliers, but they must be more active in the race.

(VOV) -Despite macroeconomic challenges, Vietnam invested US$446 million in its information technology (IT) industry in 2013, up 9.9% from a year earlier, according to the latest report by the International Data Corporation (IDC).

(VOV) - Most leading political and financial leaders consider the mechanism of the public-private partnership (PPP) as the best alternative for attracting investment to upgrade the nation’s agricultural infrastructure.

(VOV) - The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Galati city, East Romania, and the Vietnamese embassy in Romania jointly held a June 24 seminar on investment and business opportunities in Vietnam.

(VOV) - Newly registered foreign investment surpassed US$692.3 million in the first half of the year, an astonishing jump of US$270 million over the comparable period last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).

(VOV) - Japanese investors are eyeing Hanoi’s high-tech and industrial sectors and are actively seeking increased cooperation opportunities with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the lucrative market.

(VOV) -Hanoi is a dynamic city with a good business environment that instils confidence in Japanese investors, Thailand’s Reedtradex, ASEAN’s leading exhibition organiser recently reported.

(VOV) -Ho Chi Minh City on June 21 presented investment certificates to five direct foreign investment (FDI) projects worth US$220 million in total.

(VOV) -Hanoi municipal authorities have granted investment certificates to 44 foreign invested enterprises in recent months, primarily concentrated in the information technology (IT) field.

Vietnam sees the finalisation of legal business and investment corridors as a key means to make it more attractive to investors, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong has said. 

Vietnam and Russia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the possibility of cooperating in a joint seismic research at Lots 125 and 126 in the Phu Khanh basin in Vietnam’s continental shelf. 

(VOV) - Many large Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in the central coastal region are bringing fresh impetus to local socio-economic development, giving the region a facelift.

(VOV) - A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son paid a June 8-9 visit to Scotland aimed at expanding economic trade and investment between the two nations.

(VOV) - The Government has approved an agreement on reciprocal investment promotion and protection between Vietnam and Palestine.

(VOV) -On June 4, the southern province of Binh Duong granted investment licenses to 41 projects totally capitalized at nearly US$155 million, mostly from foreign direct investment (FDI).

(VOV) - June 3 marked the start of construction by the Republic of Korea’s (RoK) Dong-IL group on its first textile factory in Vietnam at Loc An-Binh Son Industrial Zone in Long Thanh district, Dong Nai province.

(VOV) - Representatives from the largest Dubai group, ICD, are due to make a fact-finding tour of Vietnam to seek investment opportunity, especially in real estate in Quang Ninh province.

(VOV) - Singapore-based marina club and property developer, ONE°15 recently has announced it has selected Vung Ro Bay in the central coastal province of Phu Yen to make its first-ever overseas investment.