Infrastructure

From a low starting point, Vietnam’s infrastructure system has been improved significantly. However, quality is still a persistent issue, causing a bottleneck limiting economic development, making it necessary to focus FDI capital in this sector.Keep reading ...

Steep increases in global coal prices are forcing Vietnam’s coal-fired power plants deeper and deeper into the red as they struggle to minimize losses caused by cost overruns worth billions of U.S. dollars.Keep reading ...

Water resources have become a source of increasing conflict, highlighting issues of unsustainable exploitation and environmental degradation, experts say. The conflicts are at several levels – between development policy and preserving the environment, damage claims over, and access to water for daily life and production.Keep ...

It requires tens of billion of U.S. dollars for the development of infrastructure in special economic zones of Van Don, North Van Phong and Phu Quoc in the coming years. Reports show that Phu Quoc special economic zone will need $40 billion by 2030 while ...

A draft law on cyber security requires foreign companies providing internet and telecommunication services in Vietnam to have operation licenses, a representative agency and an open data center in the country . Under the draft law, service providers like Google, Facebook, Viber, Skype, Gmail and Uber ...

Despite growing interest among international groups, Vietnam might have to pivot to domestic investment in developing the eastern spur of the North-South Expressway project amid a lack of a guarantee mechanism for foreign investors.Keep reading ...

Vietnam has a complicated relationship with the social network. Once blocked, and still scrutinized, it has attracted the ire of authorities keen to preserve communist rule while becoming an avenue for budding entrepreneurs since access was restored. The majority of the country’s 95 million use ...

 The average income per capita in Viet Nam will reach about US$3,000 in 2020 and the demand for cars will boom, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s (MoIT) forecast presented on Thursday at a seminar in Ha Noi.At the seminar, in the presence of Government ...

Although Vietnam is among the highest in terms of the number of internet users in Asia, it ranks the 101st out of 193 countries in the ability to ensure network security.Keep reading  ...

The Ministry of Construction is set to release its mandatory requirements for coal ash disposal early next year, threatening to shut down coal-fired thermal power plants that cannot adequately treat, store, or reuse their coal ash and gypsum discharge.Keep reading ...