03-09-2021 13:13
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has said that it is coordinating with relevant ministries, agencies and localities to build a national economic restructuring plan for the 2021-2025 period, with an aim to creating a breakthrough change in the growth model towards higher productivity, quality and competitiveness.
01-09-2021 13:31
The Vietnam Open Innovation Landscape Report 2021, which provides an overview of the startups ecosystem in Vietnam for investors to learn and look for investment opportunities, will be launched at the end of 2021.
31-08-2021 13:44
Banking technology vendor Mambu has won a deal with Cake, a new digital bank which is looking to scale its business towards offering a full suite of digital banking services.
24-08-2021 21:57
Mobilising the brainpower of Vietnamese intellectuals abroad can not only help provide resources for Vietnam to make a breakthrough in various innovative areas, but is also one of the key solutions to help the country ensure business activities as the world attempts to claw its way out of pandemic difficulties.
24-08-2021 16:29
Military-run telecommunications giant Viettel on August 23 put into operation two innovation labs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, making them the most modern facilities of their kind in Southeast Asia.
23-08-2021 17:57
Automotive manufacturer VinFast and Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd. (China), a leading clean energy group, signed an MoU on the procurement of Gotion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. The two parties will also discuss the possibility to establishing an LFP battery factory in Vietnam.
23-08-2021 11:05
In his most recent open sharing, Huy Nguyen, regional country lead, Growth Businesses, Southeast Asia at Facebook, has highlighted to Thu Huong the value of conversational commerce and how it is transforming businesses in Vietnam and across the globe.
23-08-2021 10:43
The first non-profit training programme for investors, “Beyond 2021: Investing across borders and innovations” will officially kick off in Vietnam, targeting cross-border impact investment through gender lens investing across the Asia-Pacific.
19-08-2021 11:49
As Vietnam starts to issue 50 million chip-based digital ID cards with embedded biometrics to eligible individuals, Entrust along with strategic partner MK Group have been selected as a provider of issuance systems and software for the initiative.
17-08-2021 09:29
The world’s leading finance and banking magazine, The Banker has honoured Vietnam International Bank (VIB) with the Innovation in Digital Banking 2021 award (Mobile). This is the seventh year in a row that MyVIB is honoured with prestigious awards by major international media agencies such as The Banker, The Asset, and Global Finance Review.
16-08-2021 16:37
Vietnam set the goal of boosting its digital economy to account for 20 per cent of its GDP by 2025.
16-08-2021 15:12
The pandemic has prompted an inevitable reset in Vietnam’s payment ecosystem and accelerated the non-cash transaction trend that had been already underway. Winnie Wong, country manager for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos at Mastercard, shared with VIR's Thu Huong how a global leading payments technology company like Mastercard can enhance cashless experience and enable ubiquity of digital solutions in the most secure, convenient approach.
16-08-2021 10:41
Digital transformation and smart transport development will be key tasks for the northern province of Thai Nguyen in the next decade, creating new opportunities for business.
14-08-2021 17:51
Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB) won Best Branch Digitisation Implementation in Vietnam at the Financial Technology Innovation Awards ceremony in 2021 by The Asian Banker.
12-08-2021 20:28
Vingroup (HSX: VIC), Vietnam’s largest conglomerate, has just established two subsidiaries, VinES Energy Solutions JSC (VinES) and VinAI - Artificial Intelligence Research JSC (VinAI), in a bid to diversify the group’s high-tech investment.