TTC Group and Gulf Energy Group (Thailand) inaugurated two solar power plants in Thanh Thanh Cong Industrial Zone in Trang Bang district, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. Spread out over an area of 120 hectares, the two plants were built with an investment of VND 2.7...
Hoa Phat multipurpose port company has received approval from the Dung Quat Economic Zone (EZ) and Quang Ngai Industrial Parks (IPs) Authority to construct a large port complex in the province of Quang Ngai in Vietnam. Costing more than USD 162 million, the project...
Vietnam Airlines is planning to build an aviation logistics center in the southern city of Can Tho on 27 hectares of land. The center will be located next to Can Tho International Airport. Around USD 82.9 million will be invested in the project, which will be divided...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications launched version 1.0 of an ICT reference framework for the development of smart cities in June 2019. The reference framework is meant to aid provinces and cities to build pilot smart city projects as it...
Vingroup JSC, one of Vietnam’s largest real estate, tech and retail conglomerates has started construction on its Hanoi based smartphone factory. The VinSmart factory will be located in Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park and completed in two phases. The first phase will be...
An amended law for improving taxation on e-commerce activities in Vietnam passed on June 13 will come into effect on July 1, 2020. Successful implementation would require close co-operation between banks, ministries, businesses and organizations. Under the amended...
The Medical Services Administration (MSA) under the health ministry of Vietnam and the French pharmaceutical company Servier Vietnam signed an agreement on 18 June to initiate a 2 year project for improving blood pressure monitoring and diabetes control. Diabetes is a...
The trade tensions between the US and China have prompted multinational companies to transfer their production facilities from China to Vietnam, resulting in a surge in labor demand. For this year’s first quarter, China was the largest greenfield investor in...
On 15 May 2019, CSIRO’s Data61, the data and digital specialist arm of Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology launched Vietnam’s...
The southern province of Dong Nai in Vietnam has advertised a list of 12 Infrastructure projects which require a more than a USD 1.2 billion investment in total. Six of the projects are in the transport sector, the largest being a 15km road in Nhon Trach District at a...
The joint venture between Spanish company, ACCIONA Agua and French firm, VINCI Construction Grands Projets has won a contract for the design-build portion of the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe wastewater treatment plant – phase 1, in Ho Chi Minh City. The wastewater...
Mekong Capital, a private equity firm in Vietnam has given funding to Pharmacity, making it the eight company to receive funding from its latest financing round. Last year, the firm invested in Vua Nem, a mattress producer. Pharmacity is a pharmacy chain with 186...
