Firms need strategic vision to succeed

Firms need strategic vision to succeed

In the first of a series of articles, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Vietnam writes how the Enterprise Performance Management mechanism offers insight and agility to keep firms ahead of the curve.
All roads lead to Ninh Thuan

All roads lead to Ninh Thuan

South-central coastal Ninh Thuan province has just had its socio-economic development master planning to 2020 with a vision towards 2030 green-lighted by the government. 
Eagle eyes on capital’s FDI projects

Eagle eyes on capital’s FDI projects

Hanoi has posted buoyant investment figures in the first nine months of 2011, but investment authorities are closely watching foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in the city.
Centres to get teeth into property dilemma

Centres to get teeth into property dilemma

Industry insiders are pushing for establishing property project transaction centres to address land market dilemma.
Hanoi road is to be cast in stone

Hanoi road is to be cast in stone

The prime minister has ratified a key Hanoi roading project plan.
Golf projects to get into the swing

Golf projects to get into the swing

The development of gold courses has gabbed public special attention in recent years. Deputy head of the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s (MPI) Development Strategy Institute Hoang Ngoc Phong tells VIR about golf course development.
Hanoi has big capital needs

Hanoi has big capital needs

Hanoi needs $190 billion to make the city’s development planning for 2011-2020 come true given its current intensive efforts to woo investment capital through the public-private partnership (PPP) model and maintain current growth, Hanoi People Council’s Economics and Budget Department head Nguyen Van Nam tells VIR.
Golf ready to tee off

Golf ready to tee off

Golf course development in Vietnam is in a spin with authorities around the country desperate to get in on the lucrative sport.
Golf projects get into the swing

Golf projects get into the swing

Local governments have continued asking for prime ministerial approval to develop golf courses despite the government’s strategy to limit the number of such projects across the nation.
Increasing value from business disposals

Increasing value from business disposals

How sellers can put themselves in the best possible position to extract maximum value from business disposals is outlined by KPMG Vietnam’s advisory services, transaction and restructuring director Carl Gordon.
A green pathway to change

A green pathway to change

Global efforts to combat anthropogenic climate change are already leading to significant changes both in aid/financial assistance and investments flows as well in the nature of these flows.
Thai Nguyen warming up its investor climate

Thai Nguyen warming up its investor climate

Northern Thai Nguyen province is intensifying efforts to improve its business climate.
Projects left in limbo land

Projects left in limbo land

Scores of new urban area and commercial housing projects are being forced to amend their planning schemes or pausing construction.
Hanoi’s $7 billion Red River planning enters phase 2

Hanoi’s $7 billion Red River planning enters phase 2

The Hanoi People’s Committee in coordination with South Korean experts have begun the second phase of a $7 billion basic planning for the Red River area development.
An opaque view of retailing

An opaque view of retailing

"While the above timeframe for making the national and provincial planning is foreseeable, the draft decree fails to set out an alternative licencing mechanism during the transitional period"
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