Overcoming demographic deficits through regional worker migration

Overcoming demographic deficits through regional worker migration

Much of Asia-Pacific has grown richer over the past 50 years by investing heavily in infrastructure during a period when working age populations were growing.
Legitimate businesses must not be disadvantaged with alcohol tax

Legitimate businesses must not be disadvantaged with alcohol tax

The draft Law on Special Consumption Tax, including a high raise in the tax for alcohol, will have great and direct impacts on not only enterprises in the production and trading of alcohol and soft drinks, but also product chains, labour, and social security.
Strategies needed for shrimp sector to meet export target: insiders

Strategies needed for shrimp sector to meet export target: insiders

Businesses, farmers, and management authorities need to pen rational strategies in response to market changes so as to create breakthroughs and concretise the set export revenue target of 4-4.3 billion USD for the whole year, experts have said.
Malaysia, Singapore offer unique approaches to cryptocurrency supervision: experts

Malaysia, Singapore offer unique approaches to cryptocurrency supervision: experts

The growth of financial technologies, including blockchains and cryptocurrencies, depends on how well the legal system can adapt. Globally, as the legal status of cryptocurrencies remains ambiguous, Malaysia and Singapore offer unique approaches to cryptocurrency supervision.
Cooperation scales up with Singapore

Cooperation scales up with Singapore

Vietnam and Singapore have long enjoyed a robust bilateral relationship, characterised by deepening cooperation in economics, trade, and investment, strengthening political and people-to-people ties.
State visit to China underlines shared orientation direction

State visit to China underlines shared orientation direction

The state visit to China by Party General Secretary and State President To Lam was his first overseas trip in his new role. It was also a diplomatic event of special importance between Vietnam and China, which will have great impacts on the development trend of the relationship between the two parties and the two countries in the long term.
Vietnam must be prepared for further global impediments

Vietnam must be prepared for further global impediments

The Vietnamese economy is experiencing a positive recovery trend so far this year. Nguyen Ba Hung, principal country economist from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Vietnam, talked with VIR’s Thanh Thu about its expectations on the economic outlook until the year’s end.
What’s in store for green industrial goals

What’s in store for green industrial goals

Vietnam is at a pivotal moment in its industrial development. Do Ngoc Diep, lead for the Green Building and Climate Resilience Programme under the International Finance Corporation in Vietnam, looks at the direction of green industrial growth and the tools required to help such development reach its potential.
Precise planning vital for relocation of IPs

Precise planning vital for relocation of IPs

Whether establishing a new industrial park or relocating an existing one, there is a consistent requirement and challenge for stakeholder engagement and comprehensive urban planning. Timothy D. Van Epp, fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and Mai Nguyen of the American Planning Association’s International Division, explain more.
Incentives can boost eco-IP ambitions

Incentives can boost eco-IP ambitions

Encouraging the development of new models of industrial parks, including eco-industrial parks, is considered one of the most outstanding impacts of Decree No.35/2022/ND-CP on the management of parks and economic zones.
Accelerating transition for a greener industrial sector

Accelerating transition for a greener industrial sector

Vietnam’s industrial sector, a pivotal contributor to the country’s rapid economic ascension, now faces an urgent imperative. Paul Fisher, country head of JLL Vietnam, explains how it must transition to greener, sustainable practices amidst mounting concerns about climate change.
The microchip allure for big players

The microchip allure for big players

Vietnam boasts some strategic advantages that can lure some of the biggest economies to invest in its industrial hubs. Manager Ly Nguyen and associate Tu Nguyen of the Tony Blair Institute Vietnam pore over the investment preferences of European and the US investors in industrial parks for semiconductors.
Greener industrial facilities are an inevitable trend

Greener industrial facilities are an inevitable trend

The development of green industrial parks has now moved from awareness to inevitable action. Nguyen Van Tien, vice chairman of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Association, talked with VIR’s Ngoc Tin about current progress.
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