Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has leased 4.5 hectares in its Saigon Hi-Tech Park to Starmason, a joint venture of Singapore's Sembcorp Development and Vietnamese partner BB Holding, to build a $480 million hyperscale data center.

Thailand's Gulf Development and Singapore's Singtel will invest in a Vietnam-Thailand-Singapore submarine cable to meet rising demand for cloud, AI and data-center services across Southeast Asia.

Tokgistic Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-registered affiliate of short video platform TikTok will invest $980 million in a logistics project in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, part of the social-media company's growing presence in 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.