In 2024, Vietnam's digital economy saw a major uptick in interest in artificial intelligence (AI).

In 2025, the geopolitical and economic landscape is expected to remain complex, affecting production, investment and trade activities.

A large number of European companies foresee an improvement in the macroeconomic outlook for Vietnam in the first quarter of 2025.

Both the Government and businesses must incessantly update their knowledge, be creative and take drastic action in multiple aspects amid intensive integration and volatile global economies, experts said.

The average index of industrial production in the first 10 months of this year increased by 9.7% against the same period last year, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai said on November 2.

Indicators of access to electricity in 2015 of Vietnam rose 22 times comparing to 2014 and ranked 108/189.

According to Vietnam Exhibition Fair Centre Joint Stock Company said at the recent press conference, the 24th Vietnam International Industrial Fair (VIIF 2015) will be held in Hanoi from October 20-23.

Vietnam is emerging as a more attractive destination for overseas investors, the Los Angeles Times, a US-based daily newspaper, said in an article on October 8.

General Director Sergey Kudryashov of Zarubezneft (Russia) affirmed that Zarubezneft wishes to promote a strategic and long-term cooperation with PetroVietnam, including the expansion of exploration and exploitation of oil and gas.

A delegation of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Japan’s Ehime prefecture will tour Vietnam in early November to scope out the local market and seek investment opportunities in the country.

Industrial Component and Subcontracting Vietnam (ICS) exhibition 2015 makes an opportunity for domestic support industry businesses to access advanced manufacturing techniques, while seeking new markets, business partnerships and investment opportunities from foreign countries.

Most of the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group`s (Vinacomin) 85,000 coal miners in coastal Quang Ninh province have resumed work after damaging torrential rains in July.

According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam`s economy remained stable despite impacts of plunging oil prices in the world market and complicated global financial market developments after China’s devaluation of its yuan.

A ceremony to launch the project to supply power to Lai Son island commune, the country’s largest sea crossing 110kV line was held on September 4 in Kien Hai district, the southern province of Kien Giang.

Hanoi’s economic structure saw positive changes with the proportion of service and industry-construction sectors increased, while that of agriculture sector declined.

Improving business environment is vital to increase competitiveness for enterprises, especially in the light of international integration, heard a workshop in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 25.

According to the Hanoi Statistics Department, its index of industrial production in the first eight months of 2015 rose 7.4% compared to the same period last year.

Vietnam is willing to pour up to 300 million USD into an oil and gas exploitation project in the Caspian Sea of the Republic of Dagestan within the Russian Federation, said Dagestan’s Government Office on August 18.

The Prime Minister has decided to establish a Steering Committee for Vietnam’s industrialisation strategy as part of a cooperation agreement with Japan by 2020, with a vision to 2030.

Building steel output in July reached 613,000 tonnes, posting 51.5 percent increase over the same period last year and marking the record high in the past 10 years, said the Vietnam Steel Association.

State-owned economic groups are pushing ahead with the restructuring of their member companies, while surpassing the target of business plans for the first half of the year, it was reported at a conference in Hanoi on August 14 on the groups’ patriotic emulation movement.

Consulting firm Grant Thornton (Vietnam) has released a report on private equity that shows an encouraging improvement in respondents` belief in higher investment activities in the next 12 months.

The second national congress of the Vietnam Diary Association for the 2015-2020 term was hell in HCM City on August 6.