The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) will concentrate on helping 30,000 businesspeople and enterprises with international connectivity and cooperation this year, its Chairman Pham Tan Cong has said.

More than 300 businesspeople from Italy’s Piedmont region and member countries of ASEAN gathered at a workshop in Turin city on June 17 and 18 to seek business cooperation opportunities.

Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Cuong met with overseas Vietnamese students, intellectuals and businesspeople in the UK on June 16-17 as part of his working trip to the European country.

The Vietnam Sustainability Forum 2019 took place in Hanoi on January 18 following the successful organisation of the first event last year.

The southern province of Kien Giang wants to increase cooperation and people-to-people exchange with French localities, and welcomes French investors and businesspeople to the province, said a provincial official.

Life about young Vietnamese living in urban areas is the topic of new shows produced this year by television stations and film studios in Hanoi and HCM City.

The Vietnam-UK Network (VUN) will facilitate trade and exchange between UK and Ho Chi Minh City firms, its visiting Chairman Ben Chapman said.

A seminar on strengthening public-private partnership (PPP) took place in Hanoi on August 25, attracting representatives from ministries, agencies and 100 businesspeople.