The tighter requirements in Indonesia reflect a broader trend in global food markets, where exporters increasingly need to comply simultaneously with standards covering safety, traceability, certification, packaging, emissions and product data.
Việt Nam is attracting a growing wave of investment in large-scale data centres, but turning that momentum into a regional hub will depend on securing enough power, strengthening international connectivity and providing investors with a stable regulatory environment.
The event brought together more than 1,900 brands from 49 countries, with artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and connected devices among the major trends on display.
HEPZA said foreign direct investment (FDI) channeled into 87 newly licensed and 105 existing projects stood at over $3.2 billion and $878.4 million, respectively, surpassing $4 billion in total.
South Korea’s Industrial Bank of Korea will launch its wholly foreign-owned bank in Việt Nam this September, with charter capital of VNĐ7.3 trillion (US$281 million).
Success will increasingly be measured by whether foreign investment brings technology, develops local talent, establishes research and development (R&D) capability, and integrates Vietnamese enterprises more deeply into global value chains, according to HSBC.
Realised foreign investment, a measure of capital actually disbursed into the economy, rose 11.2 per cent from a year earlier to an estimated $13.03 billion, the highest level for the first half of a year in the past five years, according...
Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyễn Văn Được proposed priorities linked to the Vietnam International Financial Centre (VIFC) to draw new-generation, high-quality capital flows. These include shifting from a project-attraction approach towards building an investment ecosystem and positioning...
Việt Nam welcomes and encourages US enterprises to expand their investment in high-tech industries and other sectors with high added value, Deputy Prime Minister Hồ Quốc Dũng said while receiving Jeff Place, Chief Supply Chain Officer of Coherent Corp in...
The Ministry of Finance’s statistics showed that disbursement of foreign-funded public investment had reached just 9.99 per cent of the annual plan by June 15.