Experts highlight that foreign investment contributes to GDP growth through three main channels - increasing capital accumulation, facilitating technology transfer and enhancing management efficiency and production organisation.
Several key economic and financial policies will come into force from June, directly impacting household businesses, state-owned enterprises, and foreign investors.
For a double-digit growth in the coming years, attracting foreign investment requires even more breakthroughs, in both capital and the quality of the capital flow are necessary.
Over nearly four decades of Doi moi, Vietnam remains consistent in encouraging foreign investment. It has continued to create an optimal investment environment by improving its legal framework, enhancing administrative reforms, and developing infrastructure and human resources.
Singapore considers Hai Phong a crucial partner, especially in port development and investment, Ambassador Jaya Ratnam said, spotlighting the Vietnam – Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) as a standout example of successful investment collaboration.
As of March 31, 2025, total registered foreign investment into Vietnam, including new registrations, capital adjustments, and capital contributions/share purchases, reached 10.98 billion USD, marking a 34.7% increase compared to the same period in 2024.
Foreign holdings in Malaysian equities increased to 19.69% as at Dec 31, 2024, from 19.54 percent in 2023, where 32.08 percent (131.22 billion MYR) of which consisted of holdings by non-strategic investors.
Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Ho Ky Minh, who is accompanying the Deputy PM, told the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s resident correspondents in London that the city received comprehensive recommendations on core principles for building a successful financial centre. The city has also focused on learning investment incentive policies that create an equal competitive environment for both domestic and international businesses.
The manufacturing and processing industry dominated foreign investment, attracting over 3.09 billion USD, equivalent to nearly 71.3% of total investment and showing a remarkable 99.1% increase year-on-year.
The northern province of Hung Yen attracted 68 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with total registered capital of nearly 1.4 billion USD in 2024, a local official announced on January 3.
A total of 884 foreign companies were approved to invest in Thailand in the first 11 months of 2024 under the Foreign Business Act of 1999, with a total investment of over 213.96 billion THB (6.26 billion USD), representing a year-on-year surge of 118%, the Department of Business Development reported on December 24.
The statistical visualisation platform Seasia Stats recently ranked Vietnam among the top 15 economies in Asia, with projected economic output reaching some 506 billion USD in 2025.
Thailand is expected to apply a minimum corporate tax rate of 15% on big international companies from 2025 in an effort to attract more foreign investment.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction has been a bright spot in the Vietnamese economic panorama in 2024, as the country has recorded 41,720 valid FDI projects worth 496.7 billion USD funded by investors from 147 countries and territories.
Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025 is forecast to grow 6.7%, with progress easing from 7.5% year-on-year in the first half to 6.1% in the second half, according to Standard Chartered’s latest macroeconomic update released on December 12.
Hanoi attracted 1.8 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 11 months of 2024, with significant growth in capital poured to both new and underway projects, according to the municipal People’s Committee.
The Thai government is working on a raft of fresh fiscal measures to sustain an economic recovery, foster new foreign investment and lower the near-record household debt, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's top aide has said.
Several large foreign investment funds are considering expanding investments in Vietnam to capitalise on the country’s rapid socio-economic development and green transition.
Disbursement of foreign investment reached about 19.58 billion USD in the first 10 months of this year, up nine% year-on-year, a report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) has shown.
