VOV.VN - Phan Van Mai, chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, has called for businesses from the US' Oakland city to invest in the southern city’s hi-tech park to produce chips, semiconductors, and new material technologies.

VOV.VN - About 200 businesses, including 170 Indonesian firms, attended the Vietnam-Indonesia forum on policies and laws to promote economic, trade and investment cooperation in Jakarta on August 5.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that ministries, agencies, and localities prioritise removing obstacles to business and production, while chairing a Government meeting on August 5 in Hanoi to review socio-economic performance in July and outline orientations for August and beyond.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue who is currently on an official visit to Indonesia received the leaderships of major Indonesian business groups on August 5.

VOV.VN - The US Mission to Vietnam, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Vietnam’s Office of the Government, and the Ministry of Planning and Investment celebrated their joint achievements in improving the business environment and enhancing the competitiveness of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through the USAID Linkages for SME (LinkSME) project.

Besides reducing business conditions, a number of ministries and sectors have continued to issue and enforce new business conditions with stricter requirements that cause difficulties for enterprises, said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Duy Dong.

The Vietnam Association of Business Culture Development and the organising committee for the campaign on business culture development in Vietnam (known as Committee 248) on August 2 organised a press briefing about the 3rd National Culture and Business Forum and the programme certifying enterprises that meet Vietnamese business culture standards.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received a delegation of officials and businesses from the US state of California led by Mayor of Oakland city Sheng Thao in Hanoi on August 1.

Reducing cost is top priority for Vietnamese businesses as high inflation has affected 94% of businesses surveyed in 2022, according to a new study by the Singapore-based United Overseas Bank (UOB).

The third National Culture and Business Forum will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 18, organisers announced on July 28.