Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Vietnam, updated continuously by our newsroom.
The trans-Vietnam high-speed rail is back on the agenda, with officials saying it can compete with aeroplanes for business. Government officials are also confident that the current pace of economic development will make it practical to source funding for the…
A majority of Vietnamese youths believe that technology will increase the number of jobs in future, a survey by the World Economic Forum has found. The “ASEAN Youth and the Future of Work” survey done by the WEF together with internet company Sea recently…
Filipino eyewear brand Sunnies Studios has announced plans to expand into Vietnam. The fashionable brand, specialising in affordable frames for women, has enjoyed a successful run in the Philippines with more than 40 branches. The Vietnam store, expected to…
Vietnam’s among top 3 ASEAN countries that will face AI-related employment problems, a new study has found. The study was carried out Cisco, a multinational technology conglomeratem and Oxford Economics, a firm that specializes in global forecasting and…
Unlike most other ASEAN countries, who have been buffeted by the China-U.S. trade war, Vietnam could actually benefit from it. The threat of an escalating global trade conflict is weighing on prospects for export-dependent economies like Singapore and…
Asian property developers are looking at Vietnam with great interest, according to industry insiders, both Vietnamese and foreign. Pham Lam, the CEO of real estate firm DKRA said that developers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia…
Google and Facebook have been among the tech giants discussing cooperation with Vietnam on the sidelines of the WEF on ASEAN 2018 in Hanoi. At a meeting Wednesday with Google’s Asia-Pacific president Karim Temsamani, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed…
H&M Vietnam has opened two new stores, in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The HCMC store is located inside District 7’s Crescent Mall, managed by Savills Vietnam, while the Hanoi store is situated in Vincom Nguyen Chi Thanh. Crescent Mall, comprising 45,000sqm of…
ASEAN has been urged to find ways for its member states to join hands together to cushion any possible fallout from the trade war between the United States and China. Against the backdrop of an escalating trade war between the US and China, Deputy Minister of…
Vietnam’s IPP Group has launched its first Apple premium reseller store EDigi, in Ho Chi Minh City. Located at 2 Cong Xa Paris, at the corner of Nguyen Du and Dong Khoi Streets, the 250sqm store is the first Apple’s one-stop shop in Vietnam. According to…
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index closed up 1.52 percent on Tuesday, the highest in two months. It ended the day at 985.06, up 14.72 points. The HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange and the UPCoM-Index for unlisted companies rose by 0.66 percent and 0.81 percent,…
Failure to incorporate market needs and hi-tech elements into their projects is costing Vietnam’s agriculture startups dear, experts say. Experts and other participants at the opening ceremony of the Saigon Times Startup Club recently agreed Vietnam comes up…
Grab announced on Tuesday its partnership with Vietnam’s MOCA Technology and Service company (Moca) for a mobile payment service in Vietnam. The ride-hailing firm pushes to cement its position in the Southeast Asian country. Grab has made digital payments and…
Vietnamese startups do not get the financial support they need from the government at the discovery and validation stages. The lack of institutional support is one of major factors behind the failure of many startups to take off and thrive, experts say.…
Strong growth in telephone and textile exports helped Vietnam post a $2.2 billion trade surplus in August, according to customs data. The August surplus even surpassed Vietnam’s $2.1-billion surplus for all of last year, and was a positive signal for economic…
Japan is the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam in terms of pledged investment capital in January-August. In the first eight months of this year, pledged investment from Japanese companies reached $7 billion, nearly 29 percent of the total foreign investment…
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