The efforts of Japanese investors to expand overseas business and diversify supply chains in the era of COVID-19 will be a boon to Vietnam.

There has been a rise in interest among Thai businesses and financiers for outbound renewable energy investment in Vietnam over the past few years. Vit Vatanayothin, partner at Baker McKenzie’s Bangkok office, talked with VIR’s Thanh Van about the Thai perspective on this type of investment in the S-shaped country.

Energized by the group’s positive results in the first six months of 2020, Vietnam Electricity (EVN) is moving ahead with plans to increase power supply in response to growing needs.

The Covid-19 outbreak in late July in the central coastal city of Da Nang and response measures could affect Vietnam’s economic recovery. However, its outlook remains bright and optimistic.

The outbreak and resurgence of Covid-19 in many countries has affected the import of raw materials for industrial production, and Vietnam’s processing and manufacturing industries are no exception.

Nhà máy năng lượng mặt trời Phù Mỹ là dự án có quy mô lớn nhất tại Bình Định, xây dựng trên diện tích 3.880 ha, tổng công suất thiết kế 330 MW với số vốn đầu tư hơn 6.200 tỷ đồng.

Ngân hàng Thế giới vừa công bố Bản tin cập nhật tình hình kinh tế vĩ mô Việt Nam tháng 5/2020. Theo đó, Ngân hàng Thế giới nhận định, điểm sáng là kinh tế Việt Nam có thể sẽ khởi sắc trở lại sau khi nới lỏng các biện pháp cách ly xã hội trên toàn quốc từ ngày 23/4.

Just a few days ago, Tiki and Sendo struck a hundred-million dollar deal that could redraw the landscape of the entire e-commerce industry, highlighting that the mergers and acquisitions market remains vibrant – which the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry would temper through a new proposal to delay for a while.

UBND tỉnh Kon Tum cho biết vừa có văn bản đề nghị Thủ tướng Chính phủ xem xét bổ sung 9 dự án điện gió và Trạm biến áp 500kV, 220kV, hệ thống đường dây đấu nối vào Quy hoạch phát triển điện lực.

In My An and My Thang communes, Phu My district, Binh Dinh province, Clean Energy Vision Development Joint Stock Company - a member company of Bamboo Capital Group (BCG) held a ceremony for starting Phu My Solar Power Project, with a capacity of 330 MW.

According to the Decision 13/2020/QD-TTg (Decision 13), dated April 6, 2020 of the Prime Minister, on the incentive mechanism for solar power development in Vietnam officially coming into effect from the May 22, 2020 instead of Decision 11/2017/QD-TTg expiring on June 30, 2019, the rooftop solar power projects in coming time expect to be developed very strongly.

Explaining an information that, in recent years, many wind and solar projects were initially assigned to Vietnamese investors, but later transferred to Foreign investors to invest, own, manage and operate, Mr. Hoang Tien Dung - Director of Electricity and Renewable Energy Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) affirmed that transferring all or a part of the investment project is a normal transaction in the market mechanism and is regulated by the Investment Law.

Vietnam's economy has suffered losses from COVID-19 but international organisations have forecast that the country is still one of the fastest growing in Southeast Asia.

In the first four months of this year, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Vietnam attracted an additional US$12.33 billion in foreign investment capital, a 14.5 percent drop from the same period of 2019 but higher than that of the same periods in 2018 and 2017.

Although the current pandemic is spreading rapidly in many countries and causing severe damage to the global economy, Vietnam continues to effectively control the situation while ensuring that economic activities are not interrupted. Nicolas Audier, chairman of EuroCham, talked with VIR’s Phuong Thu about the domestic mergers and acquisitions market during and post-pandemic, and how Vietnam can gain in size and trust from foreign investors through this avenue.