Investment
Investment policy and regulations
Decline in ODA poses challenge for Vietnam’s agricultural sector: Minister
The diminishing availability of ODA funding presents a significant challenge to the continued development of the Vietnamese agricultural sector, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan.According to Minister Le Minh Hoan, no new ODA projects have been signed in the agricultural sector ...
Translated by Anh Quan
Draft amendments to solve paradoxes in public investment activities
According to the SGGP Newspaper, in the first nine months of the year, the public disbursement rate reached 47.29 percent of the plan, lower than the same period in 2023 which achieved 51.38 percent. Currently, 31 ministries, central agencies, and 23 localities have failed to ...
Translated by Kim Khanh
Vietnam drafting law to revitalize build-transfer investment projects
The Vietnamese government is considering reviving Build-Transfer (BT) projects as a means to attract investment and stimulate economic development.A draft law to amend and supplement four key pieces of legislation – the Planning Law, Investment Law, Law on Investment under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, ...
Translated by Thanh Tam
Legal framework critical to boosting green credit
Green growth and sustainable development is now an inevitable trend and a goal that all countries are striving for, including Vietnam, as it faces environmental problems heavily impacted by climate change.There remain many barriers to green credit supply. Among them, there is still a lack ...
Vietnam gears up for fourth wave of FDI inflows
As Vietnam enters its 37th year of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), the country is on the cusp of a significant new phase.From a regulatory agency’s perspective, Director of the MPI’s Foreign Investment Agency Do Nhat Hoang noted a burgeoning new wave of investment into ...
EUVFTA shows European investors' confidence in Vietnam
A survey by EuroCham highlighted Vietnam’s attractiveness for European investors. The BCI survey said that the EUVFTA has undoubtedly opened doors for European businesses, but challenges remain. However, it also pointed out a number of obstacles that European businesses face in fully leveraging the EUVFTA, including ...
Vân Nguyễn
VN getting ready for the fourth FDI boom
FDI has been a major growth driver for the Vietnamese economy and is expected to continue the upward trend in the context of rising demand for diversifying the supply chain of multinational manufacturers, in which Việt Nam has increasing appeal with stable macro-economic conditions, and ...
Bright future for Vietnam’s foreign investment attraction: insiders
Vietnam’s foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction has seen signs of recovery after continuous declines over the past six months, becoming a driving force for the country’s economic growth in the medium and long term, said insiders. It is noteworthy that a lot of localities are ...
FDI flows into Vietnam forecast to increase in H2: Experts
The flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam are forecast to increase in the second half of the year as the downturn has been improved in recent months, experts have said. The reasons behind the decline include a lack of expansion of big projects, ...
Analysts: Vietnam needs to prepare for global minimum corporate tax
Global minimum corporate tax expected to take effect from next January.The global minimum tax rate is a key element of a program to combat tax base erosion and profit shifting, initiated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and now embraced by more ...
Anh Tuyet