The Hanoitimes – Vietnam`s high and steady economic growth in the past years has strongly drawn foreign capital and investment in local firms, considered as the shortest way for foreign investors to enter the Vietnamese market. Foreign investors have been making more indirect investments into Vietnamese firms via capital contribution or share acquisition so as […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Vietnam’s manufacturing labor productivity remains around a quarter of China’s and Malaysia’s, one third of Indonesia’s and the Philippines’, a half of India’s and Thailand’s, and just around 7% of Japan’s and South Korea’s. Boosting the growth of manufacturing productivity and innovation is key for Vietnam to avoid the middle-income trap and pursue […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Carlsberg, which currently holds a 17.34% stake in Habeco, has the right of first refusal for any stake sale from the Hanoi-based beer company, expressed interest in raising the stake, but discussions have dragged for years. Vietnam’s second-largest domestic brewer Hanoi Beer Alcohol and Beverage (Habeco) and its strategic investor Denmark’s Carlsberg […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Vietnam’s economic growth is projected to moderate to 6.6% in 2019, driven by credit tightening, slower private consumption and weaker external demand. Amid tighter financing conditions, corporate and household balance sheets in Vietnam are increasingly leveraged with the country’s credit-to-GDP ratio at about 135%, according to World Bank in its latest “Managing Headwinds” […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – There are now over 40 enterprises involved in automobile assembly and production in Vietnam and most of them are of small and medium size, with designed capacity of producing and assembling about 800,000 vehicles a year, but they are producing below the designed capacity. Vietnam’s rapidly growing automobile market is luring more foreign […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Vietnam has the largest FTA utilization rate in the Indian market at 72%, Chile and South Korea came second and third at 67% and 60%. Vietnam’s exports benefiting from utilizing preferential treatments in free trade agreements (FTAs) in 2018 stood at US$46.2 billion, accounting for 39% of total exports to markets signing FTAs […]
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