Vietnam
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‘I Have Hope’: Vietnam Babylift Survivor’s Search For Birth Mother
Airlifted from Saigon as an 11-month-old baby, Odile Dussart is now back to living in the land of her birth hoping to find her biological mother. Dussart was one of…
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Vietnam Airlines signs funding deal with Vietcombank for 50 narrow-body planes
Published Thu, Apr 24, 2025 · 01:21 PM [HANOI] Flag-carrier Vietnam Airlines said on Thursday (Apr 24) it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the country’s top lender Vietcombank…
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Vietnam Village Starts Over With Climate Defences After Landslide
Nguyen Thi Kim’s small verdant community in northern Vietnam no longer exists, wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi’s devastating heavy rains last year. She and dozens of…
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Vietnam central bank preparing restructuring plan for troubled lender SCB
Published Mon, Apr 21, 2025 · 03:11 PM [HANOI] Vietnam’s central bank is drafting a plan to restructure the troubled Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB), the lender at the…
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Vietnam Ups Wind, Solar Targets As Energy Demand Soars
Vietnam has dramatically increased its wind and solar targets as it looks to up its energy production by 2030 to meet soaring demand, according to a revised version of its…
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Xi’s Vietnam Trip Aiming To ‘Screw’ US, Says Trump
China’s President Xi Jinping paid tribute to Vietnam’s late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on Tuesday, his last day of a trip to Hanoi that President Donald Trump said was…
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Vietnam Says It Will Start Trade Talks With United States
Vietnam and the United States agreed to start negotiations on a reciprocal trade agreement, Hanoi said on Thursday, hours after Washington delayed imposing an enormous tariff on the Southeast Asian…
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Citibank, Vietnam Airlines ink US$560 million loan deal to buy aircraft
The airline plans financing for a sale and leaseback of 25 of the narrow-body aircraft, the carrier’s vice-president says [HO CHI MINH CITY] Citibank signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)…
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Nike’s 30-year gamble on Vietnam is rattled by Trump tariffs
[NEW YORK] At Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, executives are trying to figure out how to best spread the pain of new tariffs. Nike, the factories that produce its goods,…
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UOB to inject fresh capital of 2 trillion dong into Vietnam unit, build new headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City
[SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank (UOB) said on Tuesday (Apr 8) that it will inject additional fresh capital of two trillion dong (S$104 million) into its Vietnam subsidiary, bringing its total…
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UOB to inject fresh capital of 2 trillion dong into Vietnam unit, build new headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City
[SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank (UOB) said on Tuesday (Apr 8) that it will inject additional fresh capital of two trillion dong (S$104 million) into its Vietnam subsidiary, bringing its total…
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Vietnam Says To Buy More US Goods As It Seeks Tariff Delay
Vietnam will buy more US goods including security and defence products, the government said, as it seeks a last-minute delay to enormous tariffs imposed by Washington. The Southeast Asian manufacturing…
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Spain PM Heads To China, Vietnam As US Tariff Blitz Bites
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez aims to open new market opportunities during a visit to China and Vietnam this week on the heels of US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.…
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Vietnam Seeks US Tariff Delay As Economic Growth Slows In First Quarter
Vietnam has asked for a last-minute delay to colossal tariffs imposed by Washington as government figures showed on Sunday that its economy grew at a slightly slower pace in the…
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Vietnam Economic Growth Slows In First Quarter As US Tariffs Loom
Vietnam’s economy grew at a slightly slower pace in the first quarter, government figures showed Sunday, as the Southeast Asian country braces for the impact of colossal tariffs imposed by…
