Vietnam
Vietnam’s Viettel targets first pre-commercial 6G call by early 2029 as Qualcomm’s first early access partner
Viettel High Tech, under Vietnam's top telco Viettel, has signed a 6G Platform Early Access Program agreement with US semiconductor company Qualcomm Technologies.
Vietnam’s VinFast, Germany’s TÜV Rheinland to jointly develop vehicle testing center
Vietnam's electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer VinFast and Germany's TÜV Rheinland will collaborate to develop the VinFast Testing Center to international standards and provide testing and technical advisory services to automotive manufacturers in Vietnam and the ASEAN region.
Singaporeans use Gemini for professional tasks, Vietnamese for math-coding, Malaysian for creative: Google
Singapore leads Southeast Asia in per capita adoption of Google's Gemini AI platform and ranks first globally by the same measure, while Vietnam dominates the region in mathematical reasoning, coding, and AI-assisted education.
Singapore’s agritech Rize raises $31m to scale low-emission rice farming in Vietnam, Indonesia
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.
Taiwan’s Foxconn enters EV charger manufacturing in Vietnam, invests $16M more
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).
Vietnam, Singapore to develop automation, AI, robotics, green manufacturing in joint research center
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.
Viettel’s $1.3B chip factory helps Hanoi attract $588M in high-tech investment
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.
ZTE, Chinese Society of Engineers to jointly open tech training center in Vietnam
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.
OPEC Fund provides $50M loan to Vietnam’s SeABank for small business and climate financing
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’s fintech M-DAQ integrates with Vietnam’s payment service METech to build ASEAN payment hub
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.
