NDO - With the rapid development of the economy in the province and the region, Hung Yen province has determined that "transport must be one step ahead", therefore it is necessary to mobilise investment resources to develop the transport infrastructure in order to connect better the provincial transport network with the national transport system. It is necessary to improve the capacity of many roads, creating a driving force to promote the development of industrial zones and urban areas in the province. 

NDO/VNA – The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) and Alibaba.com, the global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform of the Alibaba Group, have jointly launched a programme to support Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in overcoming COVID-19. 

NDO/VNA - The LG Display Vietnam Hai Phong Co. Ltd., has recently raised its investment by US$1.4 billion, bringing the total investment of the entire project to US$4.65 billion. 

NDO – Singapore became the largest foreign investor in Vietnam in the first eight months of 2021 with total investment capital of US$6.2 billion as of August 20, accounting for nearly 32.5% of total foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam. 

NDO/VNA – Vietnam’s electronics industry is still growing despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, said an article published on newswire entrepreneur.com.  

NDO/VNA – Vietnam's rice exports to the Philippines still won a lion share of 87% in the first half of this year. 

NDO – Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Dang Minh Khoi paid a working visit to Kaluga Oblast on August 17. 

NDO/VNA - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a dispatch rolling out measures to speed up disbursement of public investment in 2021. 

NDO – Vietnam has been listed in the Top 20 countries attracting the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world for the first time, but FDI inflows into Vietnam are on a strong downward trend due to the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new requirement is to urgently adjust solutions to attract more FDI in accordance with reality in the future. 

NDO/VNA – The Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) has made the final determination on its investigation into the dumping and subsidising of certain upholstered domestic seating from China and Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV). 

NDO/VNA – Vietnam remains an attractive destination for US investors in the Indo-Pacific, heard a webinar recently held by The Asia Group. 

NDO/VNA – Container freight trains from Vietnam to Belgium will open up a new cooperation direction to increase benefits of railway logistics services, Deputy General Director of the Rail Transport and Trade Joint Stock Company (Ratraco) Nguyen Hoang Thanh told the Vietnam News Agency (VNA). 

NDO – The disbursement of public investment projects using ODA (Official development assistance) capital saw a slow pace in many localities in the first six months of 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and inadequacies in the mechanisms used, procedures and land clearance. Localities across the country have recognised these problems and are making every effort to address them in order to fulfil targets relating to the disbursement of public investment in 2021. 

NDO/VNA - Vietnam raked in US$16.7 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first seven months of 2021, down 11.1 percent from the same period last year, data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) shows.