VOV.VN - Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Hanoi continued to rise strongly in 2025, with both scale and quality showing marked improvement. Backed by new mechanisms under the 2024 Capital Law, the city is reinforcing its appeal as a dynamic urban centre with a strategic vision for investment attraction and infrastructure development.

Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are among Vietnam’s most important economic partners, with considerable room for further cooperation, but Vietnamese enterprises must adopt clearer strategies and continuously upgrade technological capacity to attract more investment and expand trade, experts said.

The Hanoi Party Committee on December 13 approved in principle two major investment projects seen as new strategic growth drivers for the capital, namely an Olympic sports urban area in the city’s southern area and the Red River Landscape Boulevard.

The Ho Chi Minh City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC), together with the Japan Business Association of Ho Chi Minh City (JCCH), hosted the 2025 Japan business roundtable in the city on December 12.

A meeting between representatives of the People’s Committee of Can Tho and Malaysia’s Technofit Sdn. Bhd. on December 11 focused on the company’s proposal to develop a 10MW rice-husk biomass power plant in the city.

Impact investment in Vietnam is experiencing strong growth thanks to important drivers like the commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, the National Green Taxonomy 2025, and the Circular Economy Plan for 2035, heard a forum on December 10.

VOV.VN - The National Assembly on December 11 approved the investment policy for the Gia Binh International Airport project in northern Bac Ninh province with expected capital of more than VND196 trillion (about US$7.8 billion).

VOV.VN - The National Assembly on December 11 approved amendments to the 2020 Investment Law, reducing the number of conditional business sectors and easing permit requirements as part of efforts to shift from pre-inspection to post-inspection oversight.

Vietnam’s increasingly attractive property market was a key topic at a seminar held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK) on December 6 by Cloud, a Korean consultancy specialising in overseas property investment, amid tighter real estate regulations at home that continue to push Korean capital abroad.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has formally reprimanded 34 ministries, central agencies and local governments for slow disbursement of public investment funds, while demanding urgent acceleration in the final weeks of 2025.