Vietnam

Business 4 min First Solar Sued JA Solar and Its Vietnam Unit Over a Patent China Has Already Struck Down The US thin-film maker accuses JA Solar and a Corning subsidiary of infringing its TOPCon cell rights. China's... EV Eva Chin 3 Oct ASEAN Tech 3 min Vietnam Edged Past Thailand in the Global Innovation Index. WIPO's Own Ranges Call It a Tie. The 2026 rankings put the two neighbours one place apart, inside overlapping confidence intervals. Singapore h... DA Daniel Koh 1 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Amazon's Vietnam Satellite Licence Covers Testing Dishes, Not Selling Internet Hanoi granted Amazon Kuiper a nationwide private network on 23 September to test terminals made in the country... SA Sarah Chew 27 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min Ho Chi Minh City Utility Warns Data Centres It May Cut Power in Tariff Dispute The dispute is over which electricity rate applies, and 11.35 billion dong is owed. The same week, a US-funded... SA Sarah Chew 27 Sep Business 5 min Jollibee Sold 11 Per Cent of Highlands Coffee, Giving the Founder Majority Control The buyer is the founder's own company, which rises to 51 per cent. The price values the Vietnamese chain at a... EV Eva Chin 26 Sep Business 5 min Vietnam Got Its FTSE Upgrade and the VN-Index Fell Index funds must now hold Vietnamese stocks, and the weight arrives in four steps to September 2027. Vanguard... EV Eva Chin 22 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min An Investor Paid Above Market for Enablence's Vietnamese Chip Capacity Enablence sold 3,226,000 shares at C$7.75 to a single buyer for about C$25 million. A Foxconn unit has been bu... SA Sarah Chew 22 Sep Business 5 min A Korean Chipmaker Lost $9.3m in Vietnam. That Was the Small Problem. The subsidiary reported a net loss of KRW85.7 billion on KRW174 billion of revenue, and the parent injected ca... EV Eva Chin 20 Sep Business 6 min VinFast Is Buying Its Founder's Property Company for $1.2 Billion The filing says the price is at a discount to an independent valuation. It does not name the valuer, publish t... EV Eva Chin 17 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min Viettel Won Dominican Spectrum. It Has Not Built Anything Yet. The award is 240 MHz across three bands for twenty years, which is a serious national allocation. It is also a... SA Sarah Chew 31 Aug ASEAN Tech 6 min Vietnam Will Teach AI in Every Grade. The Compulsory Core Is 12 Periods. Every grade, 50,000 institutions, 27 million students. Then read the allocation: 12 periods a year, which is r... SA Sarah Chew 31 Aug ASEAN Tech 6 min Vietnam and Singapore Named Six Technology Fields and Zero Dollars Six domains named at a first strategic dialogue, with no funding, timelines, targets or institutional mechanis... DA Daniel Koh 30 Aug ASEAN Tech 7 min Vietnam Wants Design Work Now, Not Just Assembly Hanoi pressed Qualcomm and Samsung to deepen AI and semiconductor investment. The $500bn Samsung export figure... SA Sarah Chew 29 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min Vietnam's AI Law Has Been In Force Since March, And The Deadlines Start Next Year Southeast Asia's first standalone AI law took effect on 1 March, applies to foreign as well as domestic entiti... SA Sarah Chew 23 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min Vietnam's Sovereign AI Data Centre Plan Starts At 20 Megawatts A joint venture has announced a US$1bn, 100 MW national network built in three phases, beginning with 10-20 MW... SA Sarah Chew 21 Aug Business 9 min Vietnam Put a Vietnamese Language Model on Its List of Strategic Technologies Decision 21/2026/QD-TTg names ten strategic technologies and thirty strategic products. One of them is large-s... EV Eva Chin 5 Aug ASEAN Tech 7 min Vietnam Calls for a Connected ASEAN Fintech Ecosystem at the AFF 2026 — but the Standards Are the Hard Part At an ASEAN Future Forum 2026 seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam's Deputy PM Nguyen Van Thang urged the region to conne... SA Sarah Chew 11 Jun ASEAN Tech 8 min Vietnam Proposes Crypto and Digital Assets as SME Loan Collateral in $144 Billion Credit Market Vietnam's Ministry of Finance is consulting on draft legislation that would let SMEs pledge digital assets, vi... SA Sarah Chew 2 Jun ASEAN Tech 5 min Vietnam Emerges as ASEAN's New Tech Manufacturing Hub as China+1 Strategies Mature Vietnam is consolidating its position as ASEAN's leading tech manufacturing hub as China+1 strategies mature.... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May