The HCM City Union of Business Associations has outlined key measures to help the business community overcome challenges and sustain growth as the city expands its development space following administrative mergers and enters a new phase of accelerated growth.
The new growth model will help Việt Nam move beyond a development path reliant on low-cost labour and resource extraction, enabling the country to gradually climb to higher levels in the global value chain.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has signed Resolution 02/NĐ-CP outlining key tasks and solutions to improve the business environment and boost national competitiveness in 2026, with a strong focus on institutional reform, cutting business prerequisites and accelerating administrative overhaul.
Enterprises and business households have been no longer have to pay business licence fees since the beginning of this year, contributing to reduced compliance costs and creating more room for development in the private sector.
For the whole of 2025, Việt Nam recorded 195,100 newly registered enterprises, with total registered capital of VNĐ1.92 quadrillion and plans to employ 1.15 million workers.
The EU is now tightening requirements to ensure that imported products comply with the same strict food safety, environmental and animal welfare standards applied within the bloc.
Green credit is increasingly seen as an inevitable trend to support sustainable growth in the agriculture sector, yet its scale in Việt Nam remains modest compared with overall credit in the economy.
Notably, the top 10 in both categories comprised 60 per cent domestic firms and 40 per cent foreign-invested companies, signalling significant advances made by Vietnamese enterprises and underscoring that the “sustainability playground” is no longer dominated by FDI firms with...
The Government proposed raising the revenue threshold exempt from tax for business households from VNĐ200 million (over US$7,580) to VNĐ500 million per year.
Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet confirmed that they have completed software s for their Airbus A320 and A321 fleets, meeting Airbus and the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV)’s requirements well ahead of the global deadline at 6:59 on November 30...
The VNĐ500 million threshold would allow 90 per cent of household businesses to be exempted from paying tax and reduce the tax burden on them by an estimated sum of VNĐ11.8 trillion per year.