SVIV will be holding its inaugural trip to Vietnam from 22 – 27 September 2022, visiting Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, and Da Nang. If you are a Singaporean resident in Vietnam and would like to attend some of our events, we’d love to meet you.

We are pleased to announce the first SVIV business networking trip happening this year and covering Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, and (optionally) Da Nang.

​This year, Vietnam intends to create a digital economic consulting network at the communal level to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their digital transformations.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and micro-SMEs (MSMEs) account for nearly 70 percent of GDP and 80 percent of Vietnam’s employment in 2020.  ​

Vietnamese business-to-business startup KiotViet, a merchant platform for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), has raised $45 million in a Series B round from private equity company KKR with participation from existing investor Jungle Ventures.

Having impressed the world by taming the virus last year, Vietnam is now in the middle of its worst outbreak of Covid-19 by far. Parts of the country are in strict lockdown and a swathe of factories, from those making shoes for Nike to those producing smartphones for Samsung, have either slowed or shut down, disrupting global supply chains. Yet integration with global manufacturing has kept Vietnam’s economy humming during the pandemic. ​

The National Assembly of Vietnam, at its recent 10th meeting, has adopted the new Law on Environmental Protection (“New Law”) following the proposal of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam (MONRE). The New Law represents the most significant modernization of the environmental law regime of Vietnam since the first law on environmental protection in 1993.

Agriculture is an important economic sector in Vietnam. In 2020, agriculture, aquaculture, and forestry sectors contributed 14.9 percent to Vietnam’s GDP, which is lower than 41.6 percent of the service and 33.7 percent of the industry sector.