Knowledge & Innovation
This category covers advancements in technology, education, and research, including startups, AI, fintech, and digital transformation. It highlights government policies on innovation, investment in R&D, and digital economy trends. As economies transition to knowledge-based industries, this section explores emerging technologies, automation, AI, and blockchain, showcasing how businesses and policymakers adapt to rapid innovation.
Vietnam News Today, December 19 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: gov’t inspections 2026 plan, revised Construction Law, troubled steelmaker supplier credit reform, retail electricity market ambitions, charging infrastructure Hanoi, HCMC billboard review, Vinamilk divestment, nuclear readiness review, coal imports, Imports from Thailand, stock market Thursday, exchange rates Thursday, exports to Malaysia, wood / wooden products exports, yesterday’s news headlines, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 17 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: SBV credit growth update, cheap labour / capital growth reaching limits, opinion: Vietnam tourism v. Malaysia, gold hotel owner late payment social insurance, PDP8 costs, shophouse demand in decline, invoices for foreign currency suspended, official growth narrative, Hanoi market stabilisation program, EU EV transition target rollback, trade challenges, labour export, plastic products exports, imports from Thailand, stock market Tuesday, exchange rates Tuesday, exports to South Korea, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 16 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Japan-FPT drone partnership, VinFast factory Indonesia inaugurated, gold license deadline missed, US$44 million golf course Gia Lai, LNY unconditional cash transfers, EV charging regulations, TCBS digital asset investment, preferential interest green projects, domestic rail development support, late social insurance payments HCMC, Highlands foreign ownership, stock market Monday, exchange rates Monday, exports to Taiwan, machines/equipment imports, yesterday’s Vietnam news headlines, powdered milk production, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 15 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: invoices foreign currency trading, bonded cold storage warehouse, Vingroup stadium proposal, HCMC EV transition, aircraft groundings, Insurance Business Law update, overstay fines, airbag materials factory HCMC, capital markets reform, unrecognised study program, first flight Long Thanh, corruption money recovered, computers/electrical products, imports from the USA, exports to Thailand, textile, leather and footwear materials imports, machine and equipment exports, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 12 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: power purchase agreement access expanded, automotive MoU Geleximco-China’s LeeKr, state coverage bankruptcy costs, revised VAT passes NA, conditional investment sectors updated, Mexico import tariffs, Land Law changes resolution, rare earths regulations, SSI no bubble stocks, US-Singapore JV soy bean plant, Vingroup share price drop, International maritime centre HCMC, wood manufacturer challenges, business concerns exchange rate, CNBC VN stock market analysis, logistics sector development, EV charging network expansion, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 11 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: public servant private sector participation, Vietnam-Texas flights Taiwan airline, SBV foreign exchange swap, deposit insurance amendments, live stream regulations pass NA, VPBank Securities HoSE debut, revised PIT passes NA, Press Law revisions, Russia-Vietnam nuclear waste, coal mining policy reform, public status revoked Apax, High-Tech law passes NA, new crypto management body launched, brain drain Hanoi, fabric imports, beer production, and more.
Vietnam government bond auction sees VND 13,000 billion offered but only VND 7,950 billion sold
Vietnam’s State Treasury offered VND 13,000 billion (US$493.2 million) across 5-year, 10-year, 15-year and 30-year maturities, Wednesday, but investors bought just VND 7,950 billion (US$301.7 million) worth, all in the 10-year term, according to the Vietnam Bond Market Association.
Vietnam News Today, December 10 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Hanoi petrol motorbike ban details, fake Nike, Adidas, Puma seizure, more fines bond disclosures, EV charging price regulations, FDI firms listing in VN, Vingroup US$3 billion India MoU, State-media on IUU, first Aeon cinema opens, energy development incentives, VAT changes agriculture, real estate expectations 2026, SK Group Vingroup divestment, tourists up revenues down, FTZ Danang incentives, fresh milk production, motor vehicles imports, stock market Tuesday, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 9 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: FTSE Vietnam Index revision, HSR investment model changes, Danang IFC temporary office, Christmas tree market Hanoi, new businesses established data, fish size regulations suspended, medical tourism gone wrong, Japan nuclear pull out, Moodys on VN credit risks, casino ticket price hike, circumvention investigation steel wheels, relative size VIC market cap, Vietnam tourist arrivals, textile & garment exports, stock market Monday, exchange rates Monday, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 8 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: arrest in speech crackdown, foreign judges on IFC courts, Ben Thanh–Can Gio rail, storm impact GDP, HSR THACO technical support, Dong Nai LNG plants online, new trading accounts fall, HSR resettlement Nghe An, credit growth, questions re: HSR bidders, pumped hydro delays, Vingroup Africa, fund performance, gold loans auction, local firms struggling abroad, CPI November, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 6 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: personal income tax revised, top healthcare companies report, trade turnover Thai Nguyen/Bac Ninh, locally owned engine factory, Trump golf course estimated timeline, OMO interest rates increased, second apartment block bans EVs, Japan-Vietnam defence meeting, French pharma distribution agreement, VinFuture awards, arrest warrant journalist Germany, imports from Hong Kong, exports to Brazil, stock market Friday, exchange rates Friday, imports from Russia, clinker & cement exports, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 5 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: new US seafood certification requirements, EVN cost recovery, public company equity revision, real estate price management, Hong Kong-Taiwan EV factory Nth VN, gas-bike ban push back, rural impacts migrant workers, coffee harvest expectations, food labelling import violations, OECD Outlook, Italian brand supply chain investigation, Bamboo Airways’ debts, VAT collected on low-value imports, home loan lending halt, Japan stationary firm acquisition, VinFast expansion India, EV parking ban rejected, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 4 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: private investment power sector, ASF pig culls, high tech park challenges, HCMC free trade zone proposal, cement production, new airport December 19 deadline, Hanoi beer relocation, inter-bank rates 3-year high, margin lending limits, strike action garment factory, EU concerns VN ILO commitments, bank risk, Novaland bonds repayment goal, new airport next phase, Imports from Belgium, opinion: Hanoi EV transition, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 3 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: legislated open hours petrol stations, Xanh GSM 23 percent VinFast sales, corporate bonds maturing December, Foxconn Bac Ninh expansion, Czech real-estate development Hai Phong, meat imports, influencer club launch, power generators deployed to Phu Quoc, new ILO leader, NetZero + revised geology law, vegetable prices settle, foreign trading certification recognition, rare earth policy development, approved energy projects, Hanoi EV basement charging ban, rice exports, motorbike production, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 2 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: PM + Sultan Brunei in Hanoi, Danang port bidders, battery storage plant Hung Yen, Japan expands insurance market, rare earth development debate, HCMC metro H1 loss, Cuba-Vietnam press cooperation, traditional market conversions, US Embassy pop song, Korean Series filming Hanoi, Japan auto expansion, 5 percent crypto penetration, South Korea logistics expansion, EV charging station regulations, aviation statistics, Thai-owned beer maker value, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 1 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: emissions standards, PM logistics target, talent competitiveness index, SK entertainment hub development, new Aeon mall, build-transfer proposed LL revisions, high tech incentives, foreign teacher qualifications, Phu Quoc power cable cut, flower industry under pressure, outbound investment regulations, Trump-developer stalled port project, phone components production, cashew nut imports, exports to Hong Kong, motor vehicles imports, and more.
Vietnam News Today, November 29 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: new steel plant no orders, digital dollarisation risk, bad debt, US$1 trillion coastal megacity, gold market distortion view, China-Vietnam durian codes, Danang sand mines stalled, IFC HCMC location, Huggies maker Vietnam expansion, Oxford University Press MOU, Airbus fault impacts, rare earth miner structure change, new HSR contender, TikTok & IFC, new policy from December 1, electricity imports, animal fodder and materials imports, and more.
Vietnam News Today, November 28 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: State Treasury US$ purchases, Ninh Binh airport plans, HD Bank Vietjet divestment, credit-risk provisioning jump, land-use fees petition, official response VAT challenges, ocean plastic denial, Coca-Cola tax ruling, corporate transparency calls, education reforms response, Vingroup-VinFast debt to equity conversion, conditional business line cut expansion, textile, leather and footwear materials exports, beer production, stock market performance Thursday, exchange rates Thursday, imports from Taiwan, and more.
How Proposed Bankruptcy Law Revisions Undermine Vietnam Economic Objectives
A current draft of revisions of Vietnam’s Bankruptcy Law extends from three months to six months the time a creditor needs to wait before beginning bankruptcy proceedings. This is a significant extension that could hinder Vietnam’s broader development objectives.
Vietnam News Today, November 27 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: local casino access extended, Siemens courting HSR role, debt trading, humanoid robots China-Vietnam border, government bond sales, HCMC land auctions, Industry groups agriculture VAT, Binance HCMC MOU, Thaco-Del Monte Agreement, Hanoi new land price list, Vietravel Airlines backgrounder, Ag. firm restructure, refinery US crude import increase, bank margin pressure credit growth, iron and steel products exports, coal imports, and more.
In today’s Vietnam news: Facebook account theft ring shut down, Minimum wage to rise from Jan 1, Nuclear power project reorganisation proposed, No jail
In today’s Vietnam news: Research prosecution exemption, Fuel retailer losses, Semiconductor degree requirements, Eurocham BCI, Government bond auction Wednesday, Australia tourist visa problems, Coffee
In today’s Vietnam news: Accor-Sun Group agreement, US largest ethanol supplier, Demographic dividend to end 3 years early, Maritime economy development, ACV looking to
This is an interview with Chris Walker, a Vietnam Sourcing Expert with Vietnam Factory Tours how rising oil prices and the Middle East crisis are
This is an interview with John Gardner, CEO and Founding Partner, at Optimum Hospitality in Ho Chi Minh City. It covers fuel price impacts on:
This is an interview with Dr Nuno F. Ribeiro, Associate Professor, International Tourism & Hospitality Management at Copenhagen Business College, formerly of RMIT Vietnam. It