(VOV) - The southern province of Long An has recently attracted a significant number of local and foreign investors, becoming an economic spearhead sector the Mekong River Delta region.

HCM City’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the first quarter of the year rose 109 percent year on year, showing investors’ growing confidence in the local economy.

New Zealand will orient its cooperation with Vietnam to a strategic partnership with the intensive development of projects in Binh Dinh province, said Ambassador Haike Manning.

(VOV) - AeonMall Vietnam Co, Ltd has been licensed to invest US$200 million in a shopping mall in Hanoi, according to CBRE Vietnam.

(VOV) - Paris plans to double the market share of French businesses in Vietnam in the next four years, said French Minister of Foreign Trade Nicole Bricq.

(VOV) - The Wallonine-Bruxelles region has approved 28 non-refundable ODA projects capitalised at US$4.5 million for Vietnam in the 2013-2015 period.

(VOV) - Italy’s multinational catering and retail company, Autogrill will run 82 cafés at Vietnamese airports.

The central province of Thua Thien - Hue has taken a number of measures to attract more investment to its industrial zones (IZs). 

(VOV) -Vietnamese enterprises are increasingly investing overseas, especially in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Russia, with their investment reaching US$2.65 billion in the first quarter.

Indonesia and Vietnam share several conditions that can help enhance our economic relationship, said Indonesian Ambassador Mayerfas at a business conference in Hanoi on April 4.

(VOV) - Due to different crop and weather patterns, Vietnam has plenty of opportunity to export agricultural and seafood products to the Japanese market. But there remain snags in meeting Japan’s strict food safety and hygiene requirements.

(VOV) - International logistics scholars and representatives from aviation agencies and logistics companies will meet in HCM City on April 25-26.  

(VOV) - A large number of businesses from Belgium’s West Franders region learned about Vietnam’s investment incentives and opportunities at a recent workshop in Hasselt city.

(VOV) - Russian businesses invested US$924 million in 83 projects in Vietnam last year. Most of them were from major groups such as Zarubezhneft and Gazprom, Rosatom and KamAZ.

(VOV) - The establishment of a Vietnam-Netherlands cooperation forum on fruit and vegetables was discussed at a round table conference in Hanoi on March 27.

(VOV) - Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh has spoken highly of the positive contribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Vietnam’s economic growth over the past 25 years.

Japan’s Nidec Corporation plans to expand its investment in Vietnam to US$1.5-2 billion from now to 2015, with a focus on manufacturing car spare parts and robots, Nidec Chairman Shigenobu Nagamori has said. 

(VOV) - More than 450 businesses from 18 nations in the world will participate in the international exhibition on construction, building materials, real estate, interior and exterior decoration (Vietbuild 2013) in Hanoi from March 28 to April 1.

A delegation of the Angolan Presidential Office led by Florbela Rocha Araujo, Secretary for Judicial and Legal Affairs, made a fact-finding trip to northern Bac Ninh province on March 25 to learn about its experience in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). 

Around 50 delegates from foreign investors, financial organisations and consultation companies examined Vietnam’s revised regulations on the pilot public-private partnership (PPP) in Singapore on March 25.

(VOV) - Investment opportunities and tools to boost trade links between Vietnam and Finland were discussed at a seminar in Hanoi on March 25 to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

(VOV) - Vietnam attracted US$5.4 billion in foreign direct investment between February 20-March 20, a monthly record figure. 

(VOV) - The first high-level dialogue to accelerate Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on March 21.

(VOV) - Vietnamese businesses have bright prospects for investing in Cambodia in 2013 and the years to come.

(VOV) - Vietnam has great potential to deliver large volumes of high quality seafood products to foreign markets.

(VOV) - Many Vietnamese businesses, including large conglomerates, are seeking investment opportunities in Myanmar.

(VOV) - Ho Chi Minh City Mayor Le Hoang Quan on March 20 received a business delegation from Guam, the US, led by Guam Governor Eddie Baza Calvo.

(VOV) - Panasonic Appliances (PAPVN) has officially inaugurated its washing machine factory in Thang Long II Industrial Park in the northern province of Hung Yen.

(VOV) - There is high hope that Vietnamese coffee will come into focus soon, said Dang Le Nguyen Vu, Chairman and General Director of Trung Nguyen Coffee Group.

(VOV) -The Binh Duong provincial People’s Committee has thus far licensed 27 projects for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and domestic businesses during March.