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.

At a roundtable discussion about coffee business held in London, Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association (VICOFA) Chairman Luong Van Tu said that Vietnamese and British coffee enterprises are keen on promoting doing business together.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has ratified the Master Development Scheme on beer, wine, beverage by 2015 with a vision towards 2035. Vietnam expects to earn 900 million USD from exporting beverage products by 2035, according to the industry’s planning.

With tax reductions for beauty industry products included in free trade agreements (FTAs), Vietnam is seen as a promising market for cosmetics firms and foreign suppliers of beauty-care machines and equipment.

The PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP) is actively developing a number of gas projects with the aim of extracting the first flows of gas at Su Tu Trang (white lion) field in the fourth quarter of 2016 and at Dai Hung field on August 31.

On July 5, a forum held by the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vinatas) in collaboration with the Textile Machinery Association under the Germany Engineering Federation (VDMA) to introduce Germany’s latest garment technologies to local enterprises in Hanoi.

The Vietnamese leading company in wood-working and decorative materials An Cuong Wood Working JSC will receive financial supports worth 30 million USD to branch out its business.

According to the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department, there are 12 more Vietnamese Tra fish exporters are now eligible to ship their products to the US, pushing the total number of eligible firms to 57 ones.

Generally for first five months of the year, the industrial production index increased by 7.5% compared to the same period of 2015.

Vietnam will face challenges in implementing policies and laws on environmental protection, especially in industries seeing strong growth, said Nick Thorpe from the People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) centre.

Hanoi Statistics Office reported that the industrial production index (IPI) of Hanoi in the first five months of this year increased by 6.1% over the month last month and 8.9% over the same period.

The signing ceremony to cooperate on developing 1,000MW of wind energy in Vietnam between the Ministry of Industry and Trade with the US`s General Electric was organised in Hanoi on May 23.

This has been considered as one of the Governement`s specific measures to support and develop enterprises operating in the field of high technology.

On May 17 afternoon, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited Zarubezneft Petroleum Corporation, one of the leading Russian natural gas giants within his official tour to the Russian Federation.

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) are expected to offer more market opportunities for insurance companies in Vietnam, but will also present tough challenges in a more competitive international environment.

Vietnam’s garment-textile sector wants to revise a development plan to 2020 with vision for 2030, to match the progress of the country as they mainly specialise in straightforward production stages and study market demands.

Vietnam is forecast to grow 6.8 percent in 2016 and 6.9 percent in 2017, according to the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, released by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) on April 28.

On April 13 evening, Vietnam and the European Union have agreed that the Timber Legality Assurance System of Vietnam (VNTLAS) will be applied for wood and wood products exported to the EU, and also to other countries and in the domestic market.

Through the implementation of various programmes on energy efficiency in the 2011-2015 period, Vietnam has saved 2.37 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, equivalent to almost 3.8 trillion VND each year.

On March 28, at a meeting in Hanoi, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh raised a number of measures to boost industrial production.

General Statistics Office (GSO) held a press conference in Hanoi on March 25 to announce the socio-economic development in the first quarter. Accordingly, gross domestic product (GDP) in January-March increased by 5.46%, slower than the 6.12% during the same period last year.