France's Carrefour Group and the Vietnamese Embassy in the European country on January 13 launched the Vietnamese booths at all supermarkets run by the French retailer, on the occasion of the Vietnamese traditional New Year (Tet). The Vietnamese booth at Carrefour supermarket in Lyon (Photo: VNA) At Carrefour supermarket in Lyon city, the Vietnamese booth introduced many agricultural...

In continuation of moving their production hubs, this year many of the giants in the world of technology and electronics have announced business expansion plans in Vietnam. Electronic firms continue to shift investment to Vietnam (Photo: VNA) Recently, Apple revealed that it will move its MacBook production chain to Vietnam in 2023. It has asked Foxconn, its biggest...

Agriculture has affirmed its role as an important pillar of the economy, helping build an independent and self-reliant economy with active, intensive, and effective integration into the world and bring a prosperous and happy life to people, according to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. PM Pham Minh Chinh visits an display of agricultural and handicraft products on the sidelines...

A container cargo rail route between Vietnam and Kazakhstan was launched last December, according to the Railways Transport and Trade Joint Stock Company (Ratraco). Illustrative image (Photo: Transport newspaper) Specifically, a train carrying electronic products departed from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, transited through Xi’an of China and arrived in Almaty of Kazakhstan. This was not the...

Chairman of the People’s Committee of the southern province of Binh Duong Duong Vo Van Minh had a working session with CEO of Semncorp Development of Singapore Kelvin Teo on January 12 to discuss the firm’s investment in Vietnam – Singapore industrial park projects in the locality. VSIP III in Binh Duong (Photo: VNA) According Teo, the investment model...

With the domestic housing market entering a period of stagnation, many construction companies of the Republic of Korea (RoK) have amended their business strategies, in which many choose Vietnam as their destination, the RoK’s Newdaily newspaper reported. A corner of Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA) In its recent article, the newspaper wrote that one of the overseas...

Germany's weekly Die Zeit (The Times) has ran an article spotlighting Vietnam's prosperous economy and its open-door policy to investors, affirming that these has helped attract more German firms to explore investment and business opportunities in the country. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) The article emphasised the economic and social changes in Vietnam in recent years, especially the sharp...

Visiting Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone co-chaired the two countries’ investment cooperation conference in Vientiane on January 12. The Vietnam - Laos investment cooperation conference in Vientiane on January 12 (Photo: VNA) Vietnam has a total registered investment of 5.34 billion USD in Laos, making it one of the three biggest foreign investors...

Chinese display maker BOE Technology Group Co Ltd, a supplier of both Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, has a plan to invest a substantial sum to build two factories in Vietnam. Headquarters of BOE Technology Group Co Ltd (Photo: China Daily) The investment may total up to 400 million USD, UK-based Reuters reported. BOE is in...

Members of the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) sold 404,635 vehicles of all kinds last year, an annual rise of 33%. Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Of the total, there were 316,941 passenger cars, up 48% year-on-year; 82,714 commercial vehicles, down 1.5%; and 4,980 special-purpose ones, down 14%. Also of the total, 226,487 were domestically assembled and 178,148 imported,...