Firm’s $36m recycling shot

Vietnam’s first wholly foreign-invested waste-to-fertiliser project has been earmarked to receive an investment licence, paving the way for overseas involvement in the country’s overburdened waste treatment system.
bourbon to pour capital into sectors

Bourbon to pour capital into sectors

Corporate heavyweight Groupe Bourbon is planning a high-profile push for new investment opportunities in Vietnam.The French firm will focus on the shipbuilding and ports sector, as well as providing logistic services for the oil industry, as part of its extensive investment portfolio expansion plans for Vietnam.

Equitisation forces Mideco to drop joint ventures

Domestic mining company Mideco has pulled out of its only two joint ventures in an effort to complete equitisation by the end of this year.

India’s KCP offers sweet deal on power generation

India’s $26-million KCP Vietnam Sugar Company said last week it planned to build two additional power facilities once the company’s negotiations on electricity price with Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) produced positive results.
fugitive labour

Fugitive labour

The increasing number of Vietnamese migrant labourers who abscond from their overseas jobs are destroying the hard-working image of their countrymen, especially in Japan where the problem is threatening to close down the labour export trade. Hoang Mai investigates what the labour management authority and labour suppliers are doing to reverse the situation.

EVN gets cold feet over giant Formosa project

State-run Electricity of Vietnam is reconsidering its power purchasing contract with Hung Nghiep Formosa, saying the price set by the Taiwan-backed joint venture is “impossible”.