Jamille Tran

Jamille Tran

VIETNAM CORRESPONDENT

Jamille is a correspondent at The Business Times, where she covers Vietnam and broader Asean affairs. She holds a master’s degree in Global Business Journalism from Tsinghua University and previously reported for Bloomberg’s Vietnam bureau.

Parties plan to deploy “significant cloud capacity” across three data centre sites in Vietnam, underpinned by up to US$1 billion in “consumption commitments”.

Ho Chi Minh City unveils twin US$1 billion digital-asset, AI data-centre pacts

The authorities also pledge to provide support for large-scale data centres tied to a creativity-innovation-technology complex

Listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, TTC AgriS currently manages a circular value chain ecosystem spanning nearly 91,000 hectares of sugarcane and 30,000 hectares of coconut plantations across Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Australia.

Vietnam sugar giant AgriS leverages Australian agronomy expertise to advance agritech across Asean

The deal with Queensland-based Farmacist aims to commercialise high-tech agricultural solutions at scale

Roughly 300,000 tons of agricultural products, including fresh vegetables, fruits, rice, and processed foods, were stuck at ports and border checkpoints across Vietnam between Jan 26 to Jan 29, according to government reports.

Damage done: Vietnam’s food-safety push creates bitter aftertaste for businesses despite U-turn 

The new inspection rules, now suspended for 70 days, are jamming border crossings, disrupting supply chains and could push near-term prices up

Ten Vietnamese university-linked startups shared UniVentures' prizes totalling US$250,000 provided by Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures

Vietnam-Singapore partnership seen as catalyst for scaling sustainable innovation

Singapore-backed initiatives such as UniVentures strengthen bilateral ties by preparing Vietnamese startups for regional expansion

VinFast's Evo lineup (pictured) became Vietnam’s best-selling e-scooter range in 2025, delivering more than 250,000 units.

Vietnam’s e-scooters rise on policy tailwinds, eroding petrol bike sales

VinFast logged a jump of nearly six times in e-scooter sales in 2025, outpacing Honda’s marginal growth and a decline at Yamaha

Johnathan Hanh Nguyen controls Imex Pan Pacific Group (IPPG), a sprawling conglomerate that operates more than 1,200 retail outlets nationwide in Vietnam.
BEHIND THE NAME

Rolex to runways: Vietnam’s luxury retail king leads a family empire built on discipline

Johnathan Hanh Nguyen is now looking to grow his half-a-billion-dollar conglomerate some more

To Lam

To Lam retains Vietnam’s top job in pivotal leadership refresh

At least two other leaders will no longer be part of the country’s four ‘pillars’ of collective power structure in the next...

TikTok was fined 880 million dong, and VNG, the operator of messaging app Zalo, received a penalty of 810 million dong.

Vietnam fines TikTok, Zalo operators over data consent practices

The social media apps have been hit with a combined 1.69 billion dong fine for breaching user data collection rules

Almost no Vietnamese firms have debuted in the US through a conventional IPO, with high-profile cases such as VinFast entering the market via a blank-cheque merger and VNG withdrawing its filing after less than six months.

From Wall Street to Asia: Vietnamese firms diversify IPO options 

The US is no longer the default dreamland, with growing interest in Hong Kong and Singapore listings

Viettel develops Vietnam’s first 5G DFE chip, the most complex component of its homegrown 5G ecosystem.

Vietnam takes first leap into chip fabrication with Viettel-led fab

The new plant is expected to begin pilot production of semiconductors by end-2027