2016 marks another successful year of strengthening the thriving economic tie between Vietnam and Taiwan.

At the recent World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc confirmed the government’s policy to allow foreign investors to engage more in Vietnam’s economy via accelerated equitisation of state-owned enterprises and capital divestments.

 The Republic of Korea, Japan and China’s Taiwan were the top three investors in the southern province of Dong Nai in the first 10 months of 2016. 

Vietnam Airlines took the delivery of the fifth A350-900 from the world’s leading manufacturer Airbus in Hanoi on October 31.

 Knauf Vietnam Co ., Ltd. inaugurated its gypsum board manufacturing plant in the northern port city of Hai Phong on October 30 after nearly two years of construction.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Transport has ceremonially broke ground on a long-awaited upgrade to a section of National Highway 6 in the northern province of Son La.

VOV.VN - The government has submitted to the National Assembly the mid-term public investment plan from 2016 to 2020. It’s the first time Vietnam has built a 5-year public investment plan instead of an annual plan. 

VOV.VN - US businesses want to increase their investments in Vietnam’s private sector to lift total investment to US$500 million over the next three years, said Elizabeth L. Littlefield, the Chief Executive Officer and President of Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Authorities of the northern province of Bac Giang and investors from the Republic of Korean (RoK) met to discuss boosting investment on October 26.

Foreign strategic investors may only be interested in buying the entire state-owned stake in Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk) in a single bulk instead of dividing it into several smaller pieces as planned by State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC).