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, January 19 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: VNG chairman bad investments, Digital currency inflation control, Fuel retailers running at loss, Investor perspectives Congress 14, Chemicals customs problem fix, Pick-up truck sales pick up, PM directives on EV charging, CRM startup US$4 million funding, Fake Australian meat bust, Processed seafood production, Imports from Germany, Exports to France, Plastic products imports, Toys / sporting goods exports, Saturday’s Vietnam news, and more.
Vietnam News Today, January 17 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: McDonald’s 100 store expansion plan, Foreign loans in 2026, CPJ on pre-congress press crackdown, New IFC HCMC launch deadline, VN-owned semiconductor plant, Novaland bond payment delays, Petrol price deregulation, 3 year tax exemptions SMEs, LNG plant US$1.12 billion loan, VND 100 million betting limited rejected, SBV Governor: limited headroom credit growth, SBV rebuffs calls remove credit limits, M&A China/VN pharmaceuticals, LPG production, Imports from Malaysia, Stock market Friday, Exchange rates Friday, and more.
Vietnam News Today, January 16 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: 40 hour work week proposal, Gross merch value e-commerce, Vinacapital scam warning, Nuclear plant resettlement costs, QR payments growth, FLC golf course investment, Quarantine certificate bribes, Fake milk case outcome, More bond issuance fines, Health supplements bribery case outcome, EDM festival HCMC, Viettel e-commerce platform, Counterfeit gas ring dismantled, Rice exports to decrease, EU dairy processing expansion, Semiconductor ASML PM meeting, Imports from South Korea, and more.
Vietnam News Today, January 15 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Power plant delays, Unemployment, LNG pricing policy outdated, Chemical Law customs delays, Brazilian beef import approvals, BW Industrial expansion, ASEAN-China FTA agriculture benefits Vietnam, Japan – Vietnam renewables cooperation, South Korean wafer plant starts operations, Agriculture capital, Jailbroken phone bank app ban, WB growth forecast, Offshore wind surveying MoU, Credit growth 15 percent analysis, New airline, European tourist arrivals, Crude oil production, and more.
Forecasting Vietnam’s Economy in 2026: Playing the Player, Not the Game
As the forecasts for Vietnam’s economy in 2026 start to roll in, this article looks at how the economy performed in 2025 and what it says about what might happen moving forward into 2026.
Vietnam News Today, January 14 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Google manufacture high-end smart phones VN, New public holiday, New US ambassador, US Countervailing duties VN rebar, BCI results, Tobacco tax changes, Standard Chartered VN economic forecast 2026, HCMC construction materials shortage, Power projects acceleration, Velocity of money, Huawei smartphones to return, PIT exemptions from July 1, Youth unemployment, Fruits and vegetables exports, Tourists from Australia / New Zealand, Aluminum production, Stock market Tuesday, and more.
Vietnam News Today, January 13 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Real estate credit not restricted, Wage / price disparity concerns, Japan’s Daiwa increases holding SSI, Real estate lending risks, PYN Elite performance, Outbound investment, Construction materials shortage APEC, UOB on VN interest rates, VND-pegged stable coin proposal, Foreign inflows HoSE end-2025 / start-2026, Coal power revenue Lam Dong, New stadium for HCMC, Taxi company sued unpaid wages / social insurance, China import Vietnam fishmeal, Counterfeit airpods, Wood / wood products exports, Imports from Japan, and more.
Vietnam News Today, January 09 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Life insurance revenue decline halted, Fuel retailer market exit, Margin lending concerns, Robot dog manufacturing HCMC, Buying new bank notes legal, VCCI report business expectations, Digital music revenue, New resolution public sector development, , Vingroup share fall / risk, Footwear exports, Imports from India, Stock market Thursday, Exchange rates Thursday, Exports to USA, Average monthly income increase, Motor vehicle imports, and more.
Minimum Wage in Vietnam 2026: Rates, Regions & ASEAN Comparisons
Vietnam’s minimum wage is an attractive draw-card for businesses in a broad range of industries. Among the lowest in Southeast Asia, foreign firms may be able to realise real value by making the most of this low-cost labour. This article looks at all the key details a foreign firm might need to know.
Average monthly wage in Vietnam reached VND 8.7 million (US$330) in Q4 2025, up 3.9 percent
In the fourth quarter of 2025, the average monthly income of workers in Vietnam reached VND 8.7 million (about US$330), up 3.9 percent from the previous quarter and 6.2 percent year on year.
Vietnam News Today, January 7 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Metro line 2 HCMC, Tax debt increase on land taxes / fees, Income tax exemptions night / overtime work, Shopee / TikTok market share, Concerns bank transfer tax deduction requirement, GDP growth outpacing power supply, Domestic consumption, FDI real estate concerns, Public company status mining / minerals sector, Food Safety Authority corruption, Seafood exports MMPA USA, Land auction deposits, Coal production, Stock market Wednesday, Exchange rates Wednesday, Tourist arrivals December / 2025, Yesterday’s Vietnam news update, and more.
Vietnam News Today, January 6 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Government inspection EV maker, Bamboo Airways recruiting, New regulations: credit institution investments, New credit card ID requirements, New Year holiday tourism, Business closures 2025, Loss-making tech firms listing HoSE, Public company status Viettel Global, Nhon Trach gas plant officially online, Call for government orders of VN-made UAVs, Unilever VN partner public company status revoked, Netflix censorship 9-dash line, Q4 inflation, 2025 trade data, 2025 FDI, GDP growth Q4 / 2025, Imports from Philippines, and more.
Vietnam inflation rises 3.31 percent in 2025
Vietnam’s Consumer Price Index rose 0.19 percent in December from the previous month, driven mainly by higher food prices and dining costs, according to the latest release from Vietnam’s National Statistics Office.
Vietnam’s VN-Index up 3.91 points, foreign traders net-sell US$27.89 million, Monday
The VN-Index closed at 1,788.40, up 3.91 points or 0.22 percent, with a total trading value of VND 25,892.10 billion or US$982.62 million, and foreign traders net-selling US$27.89 million worth of equities, Monday, according to the latest data from the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange.
Vietnam News Today, January 5 2026, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: Advertising wait time caps, Crypto / gold bar tax changes, Labour shortages LNY, Chinese HRC ADDs extended, Vinfast Ha Tinh production, Wigroup on interest rates, Wood tariff delays, Milk imports, Chemical products exports, PMI December, Imports from Australia, Exports to Philippines, and more.
Vietnam News Today, December 29 2025, Business & Economy
In today’s headlines: SK telco R&D Vietnam, Sun Group breaks ground casino, fast food spending, diesel spill Dung Quat, steel price hike, pumped storage hydro, government bonds 2025, FLC to be delisted, healthcare spending, advisory council on monetary policy, smoking in hotels, To Lam speech, new graduate job market challenges, aged care facility shortage HCMC, IFCs as tourism drivers, HPG steel maker exports plummet, Manpower on labour market, and more.
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.
In today’s Vietnam news: Fuel prices cut, Double-digit growth target reinforced, New airport services delay approval requested, TikTok VN investment, Bybit in Vietnam, LG
In today’s Vietnam news: VN renews antidumping tariffs on Thai sugar, Power supply challenges continue, USTR tariffs forced labour, AMRO growth forecast downgrade, Foreign
In today’s Vietnam news: Fund outflows May, New HCMC airport trial operations to begin September, M&A HCMC 2026, Compensation for gas-to-electric bike switch Hanoi,
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