Trade

Foreign direct investment from the European Union to Vietnam is recovering this year after a downtrend since 2011, according to a report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency. A report released this week pointed out that the EU’s total investment in Vietnam ...

Strong legal protection of intellectual property is one of the factors that attract foreign investment, especially in knowledge-intensive sectors. In the recently published 2015 International Intellectual Property or IP Index, 31 countries were assessed and given scores out of 30. The 31 included six of the ...

Vietnamese consumers are the most socially-conscious among Southeast Asians, with 86 percent expressing their willingness to pay extra for products and services from firms which are committed to positive social and environmental impact, a new Nielsen survey found.   The survey also showed that consumers in Southeast ...

Vietnam has pulled off an impressive feat this year, bucking a global slowdown trend to post an economic growth of 6.5 percent in the first nine months.    But some senior legislators have said the strong growth might not be sustainable, considering the large number of companies ...

The Vietnamese Government has approved the border trade agreement between Vietnam and Laos, which was inked on 27 June 2015 in the central province of Nghe An.The agreement is expected to create a legal basis for boosting bilateral trade in line with the two countries’ ...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hanoi are neglecting to use information and technology applications and information security, said Dang Vu Tuan, vice director of Hanoi’s Department for Information and Communications. Tuan said SMEs account for about 95 per cent of the city’s 117,000 enterprises, but only ...

Chinese imports slumped by nearly 18 percent year-on-year in September, Customs said on 13 October, in the latest poor figures from the world’s second-largest economy. Keep reading ...

The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) remains upbeat that the country’s economy will still manage growth of 2.7-3.2% this year as projected. Keep reading ...

Reforms and monetary policy changes in the post-election period would boost slowing growth in Myanmar, said an International Monetary Fund official. Hoe Ee Khor, deputy director for Asia and Pacific at the IMF, said the involvement of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in setting regulations ...

Myanmar’s first modern stock exchange risks falling under sanctions by the US Treasury when it eventually launches this year. The Yangon Stock Exchange is not designated specifically by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. However US officials have clarified that under US law it ...