VOV.VN - The Mirae Asset Financial Group of the Republic of Korea has forecast the Vietnamese economy is likely to expand 4% in the fourth quarter of 2021 and 2.3% for the whole year after suffering a contraction of 6.17% in the third quarter due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The AXA Investment Managers Asia headquartered in Singapore recently published an article which elucidates the reasons behind Vietnam’s high ranking on economic performance and discusses the prospects for broadening the country’s position in the regional and global production ecosystems.

Sectors that are inviting investment, along with investment incentives and benefits, in special economic zones and industrial parks of ASEAN countries were introduced to businesses of the Republic of Korea (RoK) at a workshop held in Seoul on October 6.

VOV.VN - A number of Japanese companies are in the process of considering plans to move part of their production chains to the nation in the near future, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Japan.

The Government Office has issued the Notice No.262/TB-VPCP dated October 5, 2021 on the Prime Minister’s conclusions at the nationwide teleconference with ministries, centrally-run agencies and localities on stepping up the disbursement of public investment capital this year.

A Russian programme on the development of startups’ business plans recently kicked off in Saint Petersburg, aiming to bring Russian projects to the Vietnamese market and attract Vietnamese investment in Russia.

VOV.VN - Municipal authorities have decided to proceed with the removal of 28 administrative procedures in the field of investment.

Despite serious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign investments in Vietnam in the first nine months of 2021 rose, showing investors' trust and optimism about the country’s socio-economic recovery and development in the coming time, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Bich Ngoc has said.

The shortage of high-quality workforce is a “bottleneck” faced by domestic support industry enterprises, said economists.

Capital flows into green growth projects have still seen positive signals despite adverse impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam.