Vietnam

Masan High-Tech Materials (MSR), the mining arm under Vietnam's conglomerate Masan, clarified its high-purity tungsten (wolfram) products are not covered by draft export restrictions for minerals.

Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade suggested that rare earth minerals stay off the list of minerals permitted for export in the current period, without details of the length of the "current period."

Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade suggested that wolfram (tungsten) is off the list of minerals permitted for export in the current period, without details of the length of the "current period."

VinFast's main Vietnamese manufacturing company, VinFast Trading and Production JSC (VFTP), has become 100 percent domestically owned after its Nasdaq-listed, Singapore-based parent VinFast Auto Ltd divested its stake.

Vietnam seeks to cap the daily playing time of under-16 gamers at 60 minutes and require parents to register their accounts, according to draft rules for online games compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietnam seeks to require parents to register and supervise social-media accounts for their under-16 children and ban under-13 kids from posting, commenting, or sharing on social media, under draft rules of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietnam is calling for development of a home-grown fleet of 40 self-driving robots to sweep its city streets, the first project put out for tender by the national science fund Nafosted under a program to build strategic technologies.

The Japanese unit of Vietnam’s technology giant FPT will take on the Polish software-design operations of Japan's Nippon Seiki, extending an automotive-software partnership between the two companies from Japan and Vietnam into Europe.

In the interview, Alex Phan, an investor and Co-Founder of startup incubator XYZ Foundation, takes the diagnosis deeper: Vietnam's legal framework has begun running ahead of its market, collateral-bound banks leave intangible tech firms stranded, and founders are chasing the wrong prize. An IPO that was never the only exit and rarely the right first one.

Vietnam will roll out artificial-intelligence (AI) lessons across its general education system, from grade 1 to grade 12, starting in the 2026-2027 school year, according to a decision issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.