NDO – The Prime Minister has issued Directive No. 13/CT-TTg on speeding up and improving the quality of the formulation of medium-term public investment plans for the 2021-2025 period. 

NDO – Cabinet members and representatives from relevant ministries and agencies discussed medium-term public investment from 2016-2020 at a meeting presided over by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the Hanoi-based Government Headquarters on May 20. 

NDO/VNA – Vietnamese firms invested US$545.9 million in overseas projects in the first four months of 2021, a year-on-year rise of 7.9-fold, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment. 

NDO – Ho Chi Minh City attracted US$1.14 billion worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first four months of 2021, down 12.92% from the same period last year, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Statistics Office. 

NDO/VNA – Leaders of European businesses have started 2021 with optimism about the trade and investment environment in Vietnam, according the Business Climate Index (BCI) for the first quarter of 2021 released by the European Chamber of Commerce (EuroCham) on April 30. 

NDO - Low disbursement of public investment is prompting the government to urge ministries, agencies, and localities to intensify the realisation of this type of capital in a bid to spur on economic growth. 

NDO - Since the national “Doi moi” was launched in 1988, Vietnam has been attaining significant economic achievements. This has been partly fueled by foreign investment, which has been targeted to continue is role as an important driver of the domestic economy. 

NDO/VNA – Hanoi has compiled a plan on attracting between US$30-40 billion worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) during the 2021-2025 period, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Planning and Investment Vu Duy Tuan told a working session with local authorities on April 19. 

NDO - Bel Ga Joint Stock Company organised a ceremony on April 17 to inaugurate the Bel Ga Tay Ninh high-tech poultry incubation factory at Thanh Thanh Cong Industrial Zone, An Hoa Ward, Trang Bang Town, Tay Ninh Province. 

NDO - With expectation to develop into a leading digital economy in Southeast Asia over the next decade, Vietnam is also witnessing a strong inflow of high-tech investment swelling performance in the region. 

NDO - Total pledges of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first quarter of 2021 were estimated at US$10.13 billion, up 18.5% over the same period of last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency. 

NDO/VNA – Ho Chi Minh City recorded US$337.8 million of foreign investment registered during the first two months of 2021, equivalent to 70.3% of the figure in the same period last year. 

NDO - Vietnam has jumped three spots to eighth from 50 countries in the global freight forwarder Agility’s ranking of Emerging Market Logistics Index 2021. 

NDO – The US-China trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic have provided Vietnam with an opportunity to attract foreign investment (FDI) as global capital flows tend to shift to safe havens. This is also a time when our country needs to drastically change our thoughts and actions in the selection of FDI partners and projects to move more towards high-quality capital flows as directed in Politburo Resolution No. 50. These factors make FDI attraction become a focal point of the "COVID year" in 2020 and will continue to do so in the years to come.