Vingroup – a private business conglomerate in Vietnam – has successfully developed its first ventilator model and sent to the Ministry of Health for inspection before mass-manufacturing it. Similarly, Bkav Corporation – a domestic technology giant – is trying to finish its own ventilator model in this May for production. All are striving to help doctors and patients in Vietnam in the fierce combat against Covid-19.

According to statistics, there were several merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in consumer goods, retail, finance, banking and real estate sectors across the country in 2019.

The Vietnam’s stock market declined the second day on December 3 as Masan’s shares hit the bottom on the day the group announced the merger of Vincommerce and VinEco with Masan Consumer Holdings.

The Vietnam’s stock market officially surpassed the 1,000-point mark on October 30 after seven months despite strong selling pressure thanks to support from blue-chip stocks.

The Vingroup Innovation Foundation (VINIF) under Vingroup yesterday announced that it would deliver VND124 billion (approx. $5.33 million) to aid the 20 most outstanding and practical science-technology projects in the fields of Big Data, computational biomedicine, gene and cell, materials science, smart traffic, Internet of Things, image recognition and natural language processing.

An automotive manufacturer, Vinfast Trading and Production Company Limited, a subsidiary of Vingroup has signed signed a strategic cooperation agreement for using VinFast-branded cars in ride-hailing service with FastGo, a Vietnamese ride-hailing firm.

VinUni STEME Day, the first STEM (Science – Technology – Engineering – Mathematics) festival, was held yesterday in Hanoi by VinUni for technological lovers in high schools nationwide.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Yen Son district of the northern province of Tuyen Quang on June 22 for a theme park and resort project of the Vingroup private conglomerate.