The Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has reported significant gains in the water quality of Manila Bay in 2021 as it vows to carry on its rehabilitation work in 2022, in compliance with the continuing mandamus of the Supreme Court....
In December 2021, the LEGO Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park Joint Venture Company Limited (VSIP) to build a new factory in Vietnam. The facility is planned to be the company’s first carbon-neutral factory and will...
The state-owned company Vietnam Electricity (EVN) and Power Project Management Board 1 have started the construction of a 220 kV transmission line between Nam Mo (Laos) and Tuong Duong district in the coastal province of Nghe An. The 74-kilometer line was built as a...
The northern province of Bac Giang aims to deploy a series of solutions to accelerate the implementation of digital transformation and develop the provincial digital economy. Following the announcement of the Bac Giang Party Committee, the province plans to ultimately...
KT Corporation, a South Korean telecommunications company, signed an MOU with Vietnam’s National Cancer Center in December 2021 to promote early cancer diagnostic technology utilizing medical artificial intelligence (AI). Accordingly, the medical AI will be...
In December 2021, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, signed an agreement with T&J Green Energy Company Limited to provide a financing package worth USD 30 million to fund the development of a waste-to-energy factory in...
The Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE) is looking for international collaboration opportunities in the field of rainfall collection and purification technology in order to combat climate change in the Mekong Delta. During...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has announced that the country aims to construct nine new rail routes, consisting of 2,362 kilometers, by 2030, as a plan to upgrade the current transport network. These projects will require a total of VND 240 trillion (USD 10.3...
In October 2021, Vietnam’s National Innovation Center (NIC) signed an agreement with Genetica to build Southeast Asia’s largest gene decoding center in Vietnam, which is expected to be inaugurated before the end of 2021. The new gene decoding center in the...
According to Vietnam Briefing, while Vietnam is still enduring the economic disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, it has enough pull factors to persuade investors to continue their business operations and relocate their industrial activities to the nation....
Although the Covid-19 pandemic severely affected many companies, it has created new opportunities for several industries in Vietnam, including software. In the first half of 2021, FPT Corporation, one of the leading technology companies in the Southeast Asian nation,...
In September 2021, Italian bicycle manufacturer Vittoria Group announced the construction of a new factory in Thailand. The USD 20 million investment will see the company’s Lion Tires Thailand (LTT) factory premises grow from 36,000 to 52,000 square meters in the...
