Vietnam

Singapore's Rize, an agricultural technology company working to reduce emissions from rice cultivation, has raised $31 million in a Series B round comprising $20 million in equity and $11 million in debt financing.

Fulian Precision Technology Component Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned Vietnamese subsidiary of Taiwan's Foxconn, has registered electric vehicle (EV) charging station manufacturing as a new business line and increased its charter capital by VND402 billion ($16 million).

The Vietnam Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (VAMRC), a joint project of Vietnam and Singapore, is set to develop automation, robotics, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, factory digital transformation, green manufacturing, and supply chain resilience.

Vietnam's technology giant Viettel investing $1.3 billion in a semiconductor fabrication plant in Hanoi made a major contribution to the capital city's high-tech investment attraction of $588.2 million in the first half of 2026.

China's ZTE Corporation and the Chinese Society of Engineers (CSE) will cooperate to establish the Center for Excellence in Engineering Capacity Building (CEECB), a technology training center in Hanoi.

The OPEC Fund for International Development has provided a $50 million loan to Vietnam's Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) to expand financing for small businesses and climate-focused investments across Vietnam.

Singapore-headquartered fintech M-DAQ Global has signed definitive agreements for a strategic integration with METech, the majority shareholder of PayME, a licensed payments service provider in Vietnam, giving M-DAQ its own regulated payments infrastructure in the country with direct access to Vietnamese dong collection and payout rails.

LG Innotek is set to kick off the construction of its $1 billion semiconductor substrate packaging plant in Vietnam's northern coastal city of Hai Phong, in the third quarter of 2026.

Samsung Electronics plans to invest $1 billion in new capital in Vietnam in 2026, after cumulative investment in the country reached $24 billion by end of 2025, CFO of Samsung Electronics Park Soon Cheol said to Vietnamese Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan at a meeting in Hanoi last week.

Net Zero Challenge, Vietnam’s largest climate technology innovation competition, has opened applications for its fourth edition, offering a total prize pool exceeding VND21 billion ($800,000), with applications open from July 1 to August 31, 2026.