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Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc has expressed the hope to further enhance coordination with the US’s news channel CNN and its partners to further popularise the city’s tourism potential.

A record number of 103,658 new firms were established in the first eight months of this year, a rise of 2.3% year on year and 1.2 times higher than the average number for the same period during 2018-2022, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

New corporate registrations are expected to reach 83,000-90,000 this year, boosted by the increase in foreign tourists and the Thai economic recovery, outstripping an earlier projection of 75,000-78,000, reported the Thai Commerce Ministry's Business Development Department.

Thailand’s Department of Business Development (DBD) is eyeing a new tourism trend - food trucks - in an effort to attract more visitors to the country.

Indonesia’s government is supporting the building of an ecosystem that helps enhance the competitiveness of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan has said.

The International Exhibition on Industrial Machinery, Equipment, Technology and Products in Ho Chi Minh City (VINAMAC EXPO 2022) kicked off on November 2.

The Can Tho chapter of Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO), Germany's Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) and the Can Tho University on March 10 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in many areas, including people diplomacy and business.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed a decision approving a programme to support private enterprises in sustainable business development in the 2022-2025 period.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) has drawn up a draft project, a draft proposal and a draft decision approving the programme on supporting digital transformation in enterprises, cooperatives and household businesses during the 2021-2025 period.

Institutional and legal reforms will be the key factors in business development over the next five to 10 years in Vietnam, experts have said.

As information technology booms, investment into e-commerce will be key to businesses’ growth, held experts.

The Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Association in Sydney (VEAS) held a seminar on start-ups, governance and business development in Sydney on October 19.

A training course on mainstreaming gender issues in implementing projects was held in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh by the Management Board of the project on developing local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (SME Tra Vinh project) from July 4-5.

Export value increases by 6.7% and import value up by 10.3% year-on-year.

A meeting held in Hanoi on May 10 discussed financial solutions for businesses amid the current context in which roughly 20 percent of firms in need of funding still have problems gaining access to credit.

Vietnam’s leading clean energy event, The Solar Show 2019, is being held in Ho Chi Minh City from April 3-4, attracting thousands of exhibitors and experts from countries and territories worldwide.

Investment ventures of 17 foreign firms worth some 200 million THB have been approved with 526 jobs to be created in Thailand.

More than 7,000 new businesses were registered Thailand in January, a strong indication of the country’s economic expansion, according to the Thai Department of Business Development (DBD).

Businesses expect to see quicker actions from state management agencies in the enforcement of the Government’s Resolutions No 19 and 35 to boost reforms and promote business development.

The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) has become the first commercial bank of Vietnam to set up a representative office in the US.