The orientation of foreign capital flows pouring into Vietnam is heavily influenced by global factors.

VOV.VN - Saigon Port Joint Stock Company, in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, welcomed the Le Laperouse cruise ship from France on October 2, bringing a group of roughly 100 international tourists to the city.

After declining in the first two quarters, the VN-Index showed signs of recovery in the first half of the third quarter.

The positive trading value and volume by foreign investors over the past month have helped to maintain the recovery of the domestic stock market.

JERA Inc., a power generation company of Japan, has signed a deal to buy a 35.1% stake at Vietnam’s Gia Lai Electricity Joint Stock Company (GEC) to tap the Southeast Asian nation's growing demand for electricity and further its own decarbonisation efforts, Nikkei Asia reported.

Foreign investors net purchased 14.8 million stocks, worth some VND80 billion during the week from August 8 – 12, showing that the Vietnamese securities market remained attractive to them.

VOV.VN - The northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh held a ceremony on August 11 to export the first one tonne batch of Son Thuy longans to the EU market.

The Vietnamese economy is likely to grow 10% year on year in the third quarter of this year, driven by strong domestic consumption, according to Michael Kokalari, chief economist at VinaCapital, one of the country’s leading investment management and real estate development companies.

VOV.VN - VinWonders Nha Trang's waterpark known as “Tropical Paradise” was granted a record by the Asian Record Organisation (ARO), with the water park on the island boasting the largest number of games throughout Asia, according to a representative of Vinpearl Joint Stock Company

The Construction Joint Stock Company 47 has announced that it had recently reached a deal with Song Da 5 Joint Stock Company to construct the Nam Pha, Nam Phak and Phouphong dams at the Nam Phak hydropower project in Laos.