Analysts from Indochina Strategic, the real estate advisory arm of Indochina Capital (ICC), offer an insight into 10 emerging trends shaping Vietnam’s real estate M&A market in 2025. Vietnam’s ambitious GDP growth target of 8.3-8.5% in 2025 is expected to generate strong momentum for emerging sectors such as the green economy, digital economy, and digital […]

Chính phủ vừa ban hành Nghị định 205/2025/NĐ-CP có hiệu lực từ 1/9/2025, với nhiều điểm mới nhằm thúc đẩy công nghiệp hỗ trợ, tập trung vào phát triển doanh nghiệp, đổi mới công nghệ, nâng cao chất lượng sản phẩm và hỗ trợ toàn diện về pháp lý, thị trường, môi trường. Điều chỉnh […]

HCMC has risen to 95th on the Global Financial Centres Index, three spots up from earlier this year, overtaking in the process Thailand’s Bangkok for the first time.This marks the Vietnamese city’s highest standing since it first made the semi-annual index compiled by London-based think tank Z/Yen Partners and the China Development Institute in 2022. […]

Tính đến ngày 15/9, tổng trị giá xuất nhập khẩu của cả nước đạt 637,21 tỷ USD Theo số liệu thống kê của Cục Hải quan – Bộ Tài chính, tính đến hết 15/9/2025, tổng trị giá xuất nhập khẩu của cả nước đạt 637,21 tỷ USD, tăng 17,2%, tương ứng tăng 93,7 tỷ USD […]

  ADB raises Vietnam’s economic growth forecast to 6.7% this year, driven by strong exports and FDI despite U.S. retaliatory tariffs. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced on September 30 that it had revised Vietnam’s GDP growth forecast upward to 6.7% for 2025, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from its projection two months earlier. […]

Vietnam’s total agro-forestry-fishery trade in the first half of 2025 is estimated at US$57 billion, with exports reaching $33.5 billion, up 14.3% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. Meanwhile, imports rose 12.8% to $23.5 billion. Export revenue from major product groups saw strong growth, with agricultural products earning $18.3 billion (up 16.8%), […]

Vietnamese mango, pistachio, pineapple, and coconut exports to the European Union jumped between 41% and 200% year-on-year in the first four months. Mango topped the list of fruits and vegetables exports to the bloc at US$27.6 million, up 54%, followed by pistachio at $17 million, a 90% rise. Pineapple exports surged 200% to $11 million, […]

Vietnam’s coffee exports in the first six months were worth US$5.5 billion for the first time ever though global prices have plummeted. The figure is double from the same period last year, and even higher than the $5.4 billion recorded in the whole of last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. This […]

HCMC has unveiled plans to set up an international financial hub at a cost of VND172 trillion (US$7 billion) in District 1 and the Thu Thiem Urban Area. It will span 783 hectares in the contiguous areas that are divided by the Saigon River. Its first phase of nine hectares will be in Thu Thiem, […]

Many international partners and foreign corporations have expressed interest in purchasing large volumes of forest carbon credits from Vietnam, according to Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. The ministry cited potential buyers like the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance (LEAF) Coalition, Amazon, and Italy’s energy giant Eni. It revealed the information in its interpretation […]

Overseas investment by Vietnamese firms in the first half of 2025 surged more than 3.5 times, reaching over US$487 million, the Ministry of Finance’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) reported. The electricity production and distribution sector received the largest share of Vietnamese investment, with over $111.2 million, accounting for 22.8% of total overseas investment. It was […]

Vietnam’s Party chief To Lam and U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday stated that they welcome the agreement reached by the two countries’ negotiating teams on the Joint Vietnam-United States Statement on a Fair, Balanced, and Reciprocal Trade Agreement Framework. Lam and Trump held a telephone conversation at 8 p.m (Vietnam time) on the same […]