Vietnamese online hotel booking start-up vntrip.vn on July 11 said it got US$3 million from a group of foreign investors led by Fenghe Group and Hancock Revocable Trust.

Thailand hopes to become one of the 10 biggest investors of Vietnam in the next two or three years from the 11th ranking at present, the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper said, quoting President of Thailand-Vietnam Business Council Sanan Angubolkul.

The Haiphong Industrial Zone Management Board has granted an investment license to Flat Group from Hong Kong (China) for a solar glass factory worth US$200 million.

Thailand’s Amata Group is asking for special incentives from the Vietnamese government for its US$1.6 billion industrial park and township complex in Quang Ninh province, enabling the complex to be competitive with neighbouring VSIP Haiphong and Dinh Vu industrial parks. 

Japan's largest gas utility company Tokyo Gas is going to establish a joint venture with PetroVietnam Gas (PV Gas) and others within the month to sell liquefied natural gas (LNG).

VOV.VN - Real estate developer Minh Tran on July 11 unveiled the signing of a contract with the Thien Vuong Group to manage the Time Hoi An project. 

VOV.VN - Outgrow Energy Consult Co Ltd (OEC) based out of Bangkok, Thailand has unveiled its proposal to oversee construction of an electricity power plant utilizing municipal solid waste (MSW) technology at the Nhon Hoi Economic Zone.

Knauf Vietnam Co., Ltd. has introduced its new gypsum board – Knauf StandardShield made in Vietnam - at a ceremony in HCM City on July 8.

The biggest environmental scandal ever in Vietnam by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Corporation has caused foreign firms doing business here to be more concerned with regards to environmental protection issues.

Losing out in the carbonated soft drink market segment, Vietnamese drink manufacturers also cannot compete with foreign ones in products which use materials available in Vietnam.