Vietnam

Vietnam seeks to permit tungsten (wolfram) exports, but only for deep-processed product, such as ammonium paratungstate (APT) and commercial tungsten oxide.

Vietnam's conglomerate Vingroup has signed a contract with France's Alstom for 200 metro trains for Hanoi capital city, as the Vietnamese conglomerate builds out the capital city's rail network.

Vietnam has issued a technical regulation requiring public electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations to serve any compatible EVs and to disclose their prices.

Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade has revised its draft rules on rare earth exports, moving the minerals from a "not permitted" list into the main export catalogue, but only for deeply processed products.

The US-based solar cell maker First Solar has sued Chinese rival JA Solar and the US-based distributor American Panel Solutions, alleging they infringed its patent on making TOPCon solar cells

Vietnam will host SEMIEXPO Vietnam 2026, an international semiconductor exhibition, in Ho Chi Minh City on December 13-14, drawing some 200 companies and global chip leaders,

Asia Vital Components (AVC), a Taiwanese maker of cooling systems for computers and AI servers, plans to invest about $500 million more in Vietnam and build a research-and-development center there.

Singapore was the largest cryptocurrency market in a region spanning Central and Southeast Asia and Oceania, with $284 billion in activity in the year to June, blockchain-analytics firm Chainalysis said.

LS Eco Energy, under South Korean chaebol LS Group, will establish a subsidiary in Vietnam to produce rare-earth samarium metal for defense and high-tech uses.

Vietnam's private bank VPBank has signed a $27 million loan with Japanese banks to help build a high-voltage power-transmission line in southern Vietnam, part of efforts to move more renewable electricity onto the national grid.