The blueprint to unlocking Ho Chi Minh City’s potential
By Rizwan Khan
May 05, 2024 | 13:43
Ho Chi Minh City is a vibrant metropolis in Vietnam. Rizwan Khan, managing partner at Acclime, explains how its rich history, dynamic economy, and diverse culture can offer the city the potential to become a global-scale megacity.
Vietnam must recalibrate policy mix and pursue reforms
By Wanwisa May Vorranikulkij
May 05, 2024 | 11:00
Vietnam’s economy faced significant challenges last year, with growth slowing to 5.1 per cent due to export contraction. Following a 6.7 per cent rebound in the last quarter of 2023, the economy decelerated to 5.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year.
Innovative entrepreneurship for a high-income Vietnam
By Dr. Vinh Quang Dang
May 05, 2024 | 11:00
Vietnam has experienced one of the fastest growth episodes over the past 30 years. Sustaining it will require strong productivity increases. Productivity growth can be achieved by the entry and growth of innovative startups. Vietnam’s startups, however, face major obstacles such as limited contributions from the research sector, talent acquisition difficulties, and fragmented support policies.
CPTPP is diplomatic success – but can deliver more
By Patrick Lenain
May 04, 2024 | 23:49
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) gives member countries easier access to one another’s markets at preferential tariffs, even tariff-free trade for most items.
Strategic advances can build on Vietnam’s position in logistics
By Long Pham and Andreas Stoffers
May 04, 2024 | 23:07
Vietnam is aiming to become an industrialised country by 2045. Consultant Long Pham and Vietnam country director Andreas Stoffers from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom explain why this extreme ambition requires comprehensive activities across the economy and society.
Core principles of growth still apply
By Jonathan Pincus
April 30, 2024 | 11:21
Five decades of development progress and lessons for the future Vietnam has achieved much progress in economic growth over the past decades. Jonathan Pincus, senior international economist at the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam, analyses how the economy has grown and offers lessons for the future.
East Asia funding a nucleus for Vietnam’s attraction
By Le Net
April 24, 2024 | 15:05
In recent years, East Asian countries have become significant investors in Vietnam.
Regional cooperation advances boosted through ASEAN Future Forum network
By Nguyen Dat
April 24, 2024 | 11:46
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet talked with VIR’s Nguyen Dat about how important the event is to regional cooperation.
Legal reforms pave the way for healthtech advancements
By Duyen Vo and Thanh Tran
April 22, 2024 | 09:22
With a burgeoning count of active mobile connections nearing 162 million, coupled with a remarkable annual e-commerce market growth rate of 25 per cent, Vietnam has emerged as an attractive market for healthtech initiatives.
Establishing and developing a virtual asset framework
By Hoai Nam
April 16, 2024 | 09:55
With the advancement of sci-tech, numerous new transaction forms and asset types have emerged, especially the rise of virtual assets.
Geopolitical tensions prompt a rethinking of trade
By Dr. Daniel Borer
April 09, 2024 | 09:17
Bouts of escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict continue to make headlines over the world. While the EU only grew by 0.5 per cent in 2023 with a prospective growth of 0.9 per cent in 2024, the Russian economy, despite the sanctions, grew by 3.6 per cent in 2023 and is expected to grow by 2.6 per cent in 2024.
How companies can ramp up cybersecurity protections
By Thanh Ngoc and Bao Trung
April 08, 2024 | 16:59
As Vietnam’s digital economy grows, so does the bullseye for cybercriminals. Cyberattacks - numbering approximately 13,900 - have rippled through Vietnam’s systems, seizing more than 83,000 computers and servers with encryption ransomware in the past five years.
Pending issues will be ironed out on regulations around EPR
By Nguyen Thi
April 05, 2024 | 11:37
A decree amending and supplementing articles of Decree No.08/2022/ND-CP on the elaboration of several articles of the Law on Environmental Protection is expected to be approved shortly, and details several articles of the amendments to extended producer r
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