(VOV) - Ho Chi Minh City hosted a June 7 trade exchange helping Vietnamese and Turkish businesses arrange investment opportunities in fields such as electricity, electronics, and information technology.

(VOV) -India’s Tata Power Co. Ltd has won a US$1.8 billion contract to develop the thermal power plant Long Phu 2 in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang.

(VOV) - Vietnamese businesses now consider the annual China Kunming Import and Export Fair as one of the year’s most important, says Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh.

Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group began construction of a US$440 million trade centre, hotel and service office complex in the Myanmar city of Yangon on June 5.

(VOV) - A business seminar was held in HCM City on June 5 to promote investment in the central province of Quang Ngai.

(VOV) - TL Offshore Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of the Malaysian SapuraKencana Petroleum Group, has won a US$35 million contract to install offshore facilities for the Diamond Oilfield project with Vietnam’s PTSC Offshore Services.  

Vietnam’s exports reached US$49.9 billion in the first five months of this year, up 15.1 percent over last year’s same period, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

(VOV) - Experts from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) shared experience in developing e-government services and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) at a seminar in Hanoi on June 4.

(VOV) - The European Union launched an EU-Vietnam Strategic Dialogue Facility in Hanoi on June 4, committing more than 2.9 million euros to the programme.

(VOV) - Vietnam needs to further improve its business climate, or it will lose out to other regional competitors, delegates said at a mid-term business forum in Hanoi on June 3.

(VOV) - Singaporean businesses strongly believe in Vietnam’s long-term development potential based on its huge domestic consumption and rich natural resources.

(VOV) - How to accelerate economic reform to facilitate business operations was the major theme of a mid-term business forum which opened in Hanoi on June 3.

(VOV) - A score of synchronous measures are needed to develop industrial parks (IPs) and economic zones (EZs) into attractive destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI).

(VOV) - Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Managing Director HirotakaYasuzumi believes Vietnam will attract more Japanese businesses if its support industry develops strongly.

(VOV) - More than 70 Belgian officials and business representatives have recently met in Gent, capital of East Flanders province to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Belgium and Vietnam.

(VOV) - A forum on trade and investment was held recently in Mexico, attended by the Vietnamese ambassador to Mexico along with representatives from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore.

As many as 200 businesses including Cambodian companies are promoting their products at a trade fair which kicked off on May 28 in Xuan To industrial zone, Tinh Bien district in the southern An Giang province. 

(VOV) - Energy capacity is the biggest risk factor hindering expanding Intel’s Vietnamese investment activities.

(VOV) - The largest complex of sugarcane, ethanol and thermal power plants in Cambodia was inaugurated in Okrieng commune, Sombour district, Kratie province on May 26.

(VOV) - Vietnam has so far this year attracted US$8.517 billion in newly registered and additional FDI capital, up 8.9 percent over the same period last year.

(VOV) -Vietnam wants to closely cooperate with France in developing its nuclear power projects.

(VOV) - Due to a sharp fall in both volume and price in the first quarter of 2013, rubber exports earned 24.2 percent less than in the same period last year.

(VOV) - French businesses are interested in Vietnam’s national defence cooperation, said Major-General Tran Trung Tin, director of the Finance Department under the Defence Ministry.

(VOV) - The 16th meeting of the National Focal Points for ASEAN Cocoa Club (ACC) on the Joint Scheme for ASEAN Cooperation in Agricultural and Forest Products Promotion is taking place in HCM City on May 22-23.

(VOV) - A Vietnam-India Business Forum was held in HCM City on May 22 to help businesses in both nations seek investment opportunities.  

(VOV) - Vietnam hopes that the Thai government will encourage more Thai businesses to invest in Vietnam’s central region, especially the East-West Economic Corridor.

(VOV) -The Starbucks Corporation, one of the world’s leading coffee brands, has claimed initial success in Vietnam.

(VOV) - Product restructuring imbalances and general underwhelming competitiveness means the electronics sector needs to unite if breakthroughs in attracting FDI are desired.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Vice Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son attended the second Vice Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) in Laos’ Savannakhet province on May 16. 

(VOV) - Vietnamese businesses are intensifying investment abroad in the agro-forestry-fishery sector to expand their markets and save production and transport costs.