VOV.VN - Through local partner factories, 'Made in Vietnam' products have been distributed to more than 2,400 stores around the world, thereby demonstrating the country’s crucial role in Uniqlo’s global value chain, said Nishida Hideki, general director of Uniqlo Vietnam.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) and its partners signed and started to implement the Block B – O Mon gas-to-power value chain project at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 30 with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attending.

Vietnam needs to promptly adopt appropriate policies and mechanisms to build infrastructure and value chains related to hydrogen, experts recommended at the National Green Hydrogen Summit: Energy Transition and Development of Green Hydrogen Industry in Vietnam on October 28 at the National Innovation Centre (NIC) at the Hanoi-based Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park.

The attraction of large foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows from the US and Europe, especially into industries with high added value such as manufacturing, technology and pharmaceuticals, is a positive signal about Vietnam’s economic development and international cooperation as well as the country's efforts in improving its position on the global value chain.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), in collaboration with the US Department of Agriculture and CropLife Asia, held a forum in Hanoi on October 18 to discuss the application of sci-tech and innovation toward sustainable agricultural development.

The historic Vietnam visit by US President Joe Biden and the upgrade of bilateral relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership will create unprecedented opportunities to promote new and breakthrough cooperation areas, and to build Vietnam’s capacity to truly join the global value chains, said Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien.

VOV.VN - The semiconductor industry is currently flourishing globally, and Vietnam is required to make the best preparations possible to attract multi-billion dollar FDI projects in this field, reports Cong Thuong (Industry and Trade) newswire.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has proposed the government provide further support for Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including an interest rate reduction of another 2 percentage points per year.

Attracting businesses and investors to pour capital into sustainable agricultural value chains is seen as a key solution to pave the way for, and create breakthroughs in the sector’s development amid intensive integration and the volatile global economy, according to insiders.

A workshop to kick off a project on developing a sustainable value chain of products from lotus silk in Vietnam to support the flood storage strategy for the Mekong Delta region was held by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in An Giang province on May 26.