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.

In 2024, Vietnam's foreign direct investment (FDI) primarily targets high-value sectors such as electronics and green technology.

​South Korean chemical maker Hyosung in December will break ground on a 1.2 billion USD complex capable of cranking out 600,000 tons of polypropylene annually in Vietnam.

At present, Vietnam is the 12th world’s largest electronics exporters and the third largest exporter in ASEAN. However, 95% of export value is coming from the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) sector, while the domestic enterprises have not contributed much to this gain.

Vietnam could receive a significant boost to its natural gas supplies as soon as 2023, allowing it to expand its power and petrochemical sectors, after signing two agreements during last week’s APEC summit to buy gas at home and from Indonesia.

The cooperation is part of a series of billions USD deal signed between companies of Vietnam and the U.S.

According to General Statistics Office, in the first 10 months of 2017, industrial output has increased by 8.7% compared to the same period of last year, which is higher than an increase of 7.3% in the same period of 2016 and 7.9% in the first 9 months.

According to the Doing Business Report 2018 of the World Bank, the indicator of getting electricity of Vietnam in 2017 is 78.69 scores out of 100, up 32 places compared to the last year’s rank at 64th. This is the highest improvement of Vietnam since 2013 to present.

The Vietnamese manufacturing sector paused for breath in October, with output rising only marginally during the month. New order growth also slowed, but remained solid amid a faster increase in new export orders.

The Vietnam Hanoi Textile & Garment Industry – Fabric & Garment Accessories Expo 2017 (HanoiTex 2017) is co-organized in Hanoi annually by Vietnam National Textile & Garment Group (VINATEX), CP Exhibition Hong Kong and Vietnam Chamber of Commerce & Industry Expo from November 1 – 3 at the International Center for Exhibition.

Vietnam is facing many challenges to ensure the energy security toward sustainable development. Vietnam is transforming from exporting energy to import energy with an increasing rate. As such, it is very difficult in balancing the energy supply – demand in general, and power supply – demand in particular.

The Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued the National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) until 2025, and with vision to 2030.

The Vietnam Wholesale Electricity Market (VWEM) after 1 year of pilot implementation has achieved positive results, however, there remains difficulties and challenges, which need to be solved quickly.

Vietnam’s automobile industry has a large opportunity to grow as the demand for cars is forecast to boom in 2020 when the country’s average income per capita reaches some US$3,000.

Processing and manufacturing has made huge strides, helping the entire industrial sector take a leap this year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Most firms in the processing and manufacturing industry expected their business and production in Q4 to be better than the third quarter, a survey from the General Statistics Office showed.

According to the forecast, in 2020, the average income of Vietnamese will be around 3,000 USD, along with this is the booming demand for car. However, after many years of development, the Vietnam Automobile Industry has not had its expected breakthroughs, when the assembling cost in Vietnam is still higher than imported car.

It is expected that in 3 years, Vietnam will have 50 enterprises being the tier 1 vendor in Samsung’s supply chain.

The Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) increased from 51.8 in August to 53.3 in September, thanks to faster rises in output, new orders and employment on the back of stronger customer demand.

Vietnam gained five spots in the Global Competitiveness Report 2017-2018 by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

According to the Vietnam Clean Energy Association (VCEA), Vietnam is one of the nations with the most sunlight in the world’s solar radiation charts.

Viet Nam’s economy continues to perform well despite several setbacks, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a new flagship report launched today.