VOV.VN - Vietnam’s foreign direct investment (FDI) reached more than US$21 billion in the first half of 2025, driven by streamlined investment procedures, special incentives, and improved investor support mechanisms.

The south central province of Binh Dinh handed over investment policy decisions and certificates for 62 projects with total registered capital of over VND231 trillion (more than US$9 billion) at an investment promotion conference on March 28.

The Vietnam Trade Office in India on February 12 held an online seminar to provide updates on India's 2025 budget and investment opportunities for Vietnamese firms.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspected the construction site of the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project and attended the groundbreaking ceremony of a social housing project in Lao Cai city in the northern mountainous province of the same name on December 22.

Lawmakers on November 20 afternoon expressed their strong support for the investment policy for the North-South high-speed railway project, emphasising that it is time to go ahead rather than stepping back as this is a development trend of the country.

The amendments to the draft Law on Public Investment (amended) specify five major policy groups, deeply reflecting the spirit of breakthrough, reform, and decentralisation of power advocated by the Party Central Party, the Politburo, the National Assembly, and the Government.

The wave of innovative start-ups in Vietnam has developed at “dizzying” speeds, attracting the attention of many domestic and foreign investors, a seminar, entitled 'Investment Policies for Start-ups' in Hanoi heard on June 3.

The Government on May 22 submitted to the 15th National Assembly (NA) a proposal on adjustments to the investment policy for the national target programme on boosting the socio-economic development of ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period, aiming to facilitate the disbursement of capital for the programme.

The Hai Phong Economic Zone Authority (HEZA) and Shangyu district of Shaoxing city, Zhejiang province, China embarked on a collaborative effort to strengthen trade and cultural exchanges through a letter of intent signed on May 13.

The Prime Minister on December 22 issued a decision approving an investment policy for the first-stage construction and operation of infrastructure in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park II (VSIP II), located in the Dung Quat Economic Zone, the central province of Quang Ngai.