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| Funds seek opportunities in Vietnam (22/10/2010) |
 To meet foreign investment demand, Vietnam should develop new strategies to expand the private sector to meet infrastructure and logistics challenges, speakers said at a conference held in HCM City this week.
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| ntel to open 1 bln USD factory in Vietnam (18/10/2010) |
| Intel Corporation, the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, will open its 1 billion USD chip assembly and testing facility in Vietnam by the end of this month, an executive said.Intel’s investment in Vietnam is aimed at tapping growth opportunities in emerging Asia , Navin Shenoy, Intel’s general manager for Asia-Pacific, was quoted by The Wall Street Journal as saying on Oct. 14. |
| Local firms eye lucrative foreign investments (08/05/2010) |
| The Foreign Investment Agency said 2010 would be a lucrative year for Vietnamese firms to launch projects and partnerships abroad. Anticipating a profitable year, the Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, which has already invested in real estate in Thailand and Cambodia, plans to launch joint venture projects to build deluxe apartments and hotels and plant rubber trees in Laos with a combined investment capital of US$20 million. |
| Foreign investors spark stiff retail competition (08/05/2010) |
 Among foreign-invested retailers in Vietnam, Big C is a well known name. It is not only because the retailer has been present in Vietnam for a long time, but also for its reasonable pricing policies. Big C understands that Vietnamese consumers prefer low price products, therefore, they have been successful.
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| $421mil fishing port plan approved (08/05/2010) |
 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a VND8 trillion (US$421 million) plan to build a network of fishing ports for 28 of Viet Nam's coastal cities and provinces. A major purpose of the plan to 2020, with a vision to 2030, is to finish ports that are behind schedule, provide logistic services for fishing vessels and develop the national fishery industry for modernisation and industrialisation. |
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Vietnam will need total investments of VND6,340 trillion (US$333 billion) for economic development projects in 2011-2015 period, up 1.9 folds in comparison with the sum for 2006-2010, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) said.