Foreign and domestic investors have been looking at the Vietnamese property technology (proptech) with great interest and plan into taking a larger share of the country’s US$500-million market. An estimate of about 100 proptech companies are located in Vietnam where 80 per cent are either foreign-owned or receive foreign funding. Last week, one of the most recent investments, hotel booking …

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the man behind the successful managing of the coronavirus pandemic in Vietnam, has been formally appointed as president in Hanoi. This was after the legislators cast secret ballots to elect Phuc to the new position on Monday morning. Phuc was the prime minister of Vietnam for the last five years which is a period where the economy …

On March 23, an international conference in Vietnam’s Binh Duong province learned that ASEAN needs to implement green manufacturing technologies to create sustainable new goods and services. Dr. Michael Braun, the coordinator of the Enhanced Regional EU-ASEAN Dialogue Instrument project, said at the “Cooperating with Europe for Green Manufacturing Technologies” conference that promoting technical collaboration between the European and Southeast …

HANOI, Feb 15 — In 2020, exports from six Southeast Asian countries dropped by 2.2 percent from a year earlier to a combined US$1.35 trillion (RM5.45 trillion), a relatively marginal decline amid Covid-19, according to data from the Japan External Trade Organization, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported (JETRO). Of the six, only Vietnam reported a year-on-year rise in exports, …

The year 2020 was a difficult year for Southeast Asia, which faced several disasters caused by severe weather events, particularly in the Philippines and Vietnam, two Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in addition to coping with the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic (ASEAN). Highlighting the urgent need to improve regional cooperation against disaster danger, in his …

At VND5.1 trillion ($220 million), Covid-19 vaccine maker Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC has been assessed higher than major pharmaceutical peers. A Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Company representative said they started investigating the development of vaccines in March as the Covid-19 outbreak turned into a pandemic. For over six months, more than 300 employees of an HCMC-based company have been working overtime …

In Vietnam, Facebook and YouTube are complicit in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale” a hypothesis advanced in a recent Amnesty International study that confirms and fleshes out previous studies on Vietnam’s increasingly assertive attempts to extend its control over key social media networks. The 78-page study published on 1 December shows that the number of instances in which …

SINGAPORE –  Vietnam is forming up as Southeast Asia’s single financial victory story within the coronavirus period, keeping up relentless positive development as other economies battle to recoup. Vietnam’s real net residential product extended 2.6% on the year within the third quarter, stamping a moment straight quarter of development in the midst of the widespread. The International Monetary Fund sees …

The Typhoon Vamco unexpectedly barrelled into Vietnam, destroying buildings and injuring at least five people. In view of this, the storm made landfall with winds of up to 90kmh uprooting trees and tearing the roofs off houses and schools. Talking about this, Vamco is the latest in a string of storms over the past six weeks that have pummeled Vietnam, …

HANOI –  Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday confirmed that the 37th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and related meetings will be held via video conferencing from November 12 to 15. Vice spokesperson of the ministry said at a briefing that Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will chair the meetings. The meetings includes the …