Vietnam has a bad case of African Swine Fever that it just can’t seem to shake. This is fundamentally reshaping Vietnam’s pork market, which has seen a huge increase in pork imports in recent years. This article looks at how this all started, what’s happening now, and what might happen next.

Almost 6,000 redundancies at Vietnam’s Mobile World so far this year

the-shiv August 5, 2024

Mobile World is one of the most active stocks on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange among foreign investors. Trading under the ticker MWG, shares of the company closed at VND 62,900 a share on Friday. Foreign investors currently own about 46.69 percent of the firm with a foreign ownership cap of 49 percent…

Imported car sales poised to overtake locally made cars in Vietnam

the-shiv August 5, 2024

Most of these imports came from Indonesia, Thailand, and China which have seen their car market share in Vietnam grow on the back of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement, or ACFTA, that has seen import tariffs on most small cars with less than 9 seats reduced to zero…

Japan-Vietnam firms partner up on new cinema chain

the-shiv August 5, 2024

Of note, for foreign firms, forming a partnership with a local business can reduce some administrative hurdles that go along with starting a business in Vietnam. Specifically, a joint venture will not require an Investment Registration Certificate or IRC…