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| Award winners for Top 100 Vietnam Best Places to Work 2023 in the large enterprises category. (Photo: Anphabe) |
The rankings are based on the findings of the independent Vietnam Best Places to Work survey, which polled 63,878 experienced workers from 18 industry groups and 9,638 students from 113 universities.
The survey was conducted from April to September 2023, measuring the employer brand attractiveness of 752 companies and also evaluating the latest trends in talent, human resources and working environment in the country.
The evaluation model and methodology were verified by market research firm Intage Vietnam.
Nestlé Vietnam gained the top spot in the large enterprises category followed by Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam Beverage, Vingroup, ACECOOK Vietnam, AEON Vietnam, DHG Pharmaceutical JSC, CJ Foods Vietnam, and Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank.
PepsiCo Foods Vietnam Company topped the medium enterprises category, followed by JOLLIBEE Vietnam, Generali Vietnam Life Insurance, BMB STEEL, JABIL Vietnam, McDonald’s Vietnam, IMEXPHARM Corporation, and ADP Group.
In the category of Top 50 Best Employer of Choice by Vietnam Students, the winners were Nestlé Vietnam (third consecutive year), PepsiCo Foods Vietnam Company (third consecutive year), AEON Vietnam (second consecutive year), ACECOOK Vietnam (third consecutive year), and Honda Vietnam (third consecutive year).
The annual workplace environment ranking, done by Anphabe and endorsed by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is now in its tenth year.
Agriculture sector responds to climate change with green development
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| Vietnam’s agriculture sector has identified the need to respond promptly and enhance growth quality by applying ecological, organic, circular farming methods that results in low carbon emissions (Illustrative photo - Source: VNA) |
Bracing for the significant impact of climate change, Vietnam’s agriculture sector has identified the need to respond promptly and enhance growth quality by applying ecological, organic, circular farming methods that results in low carbon emissions, according to Vietnam News Agency.
Between 2019 and 2023, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) have implemented a project called "Accelerating Private Sector Engagement in Climate-Resilient and Low-Emission Investment in Vietnam's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)".
The project is expected to assist dragon fruit farming to go green in the south-central province of Binh Thuan and shrimp production in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.
Nguyen Do Anh Tuan, Director of the MARD’s International Cooperation Department, stated that the ministry is currently completing procedures to participate in the Emirates Leaders Declaration on Resilient Food Systems, Sustainable Agriculture, and Climate Action. The document is expected to be approved at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in December this year.
The transformation of Vietnam's food system toward green, low-carbon, sustainable, and climate-adaptive orientations is imperative, contributing to the implementation of national agricultural and rural development strategies, action plans, and international commitments.
In recent years, the nation’s participation in international commitments on climate change has brought about a significant shift in the approach to agricultural production towards transparency, responsibility, and sustainability. They include commitments to achieve the net-zero emission goal by 2050 and a 30% reduction in methane emissions compared to 2020.
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| The transformation of Vietnam's food system toward green, low-carbon, sustainable, and climate-adaptive orientations is imperative, contributing to the implementation of national agricultural and rural development strategies, action plans, and international commitments. (Illustrative photo - Source: VNA) |
At the fourth session of the national steering committee for implementing Vietnam's commitments at COP26, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that green development, energy transition, and emission reduction are inevitable trends that cannot be reversed.
Businesses promote digital transformation and green recovery toward market development
Over 90% of Vietnam's small and medium-sized enterprises are currently facing numerous challenges such as the ability to apply technology, willingness to innovate themselves in order to improve product quality, increase competitiveness and take advantage of incentives from free trade agreements (FTAs), according to VOV.
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According to economic experts, in the context of the world's unpredictably fluctuating situation, local businesses should enhance digital transformation and green recovery to boost market development.
Vietnam's current participation in many FTAs has opened up opportunities, but also posed challenges to businesses, especially small businesses that have to face fierce competition from major enterprises in terms of productivity, quality and market development.
Tran Thi Thanh Tam, director of the Small and Medium Enterprise Support Center under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) said, "Increasing product quality helps meet the increasingly demanding needs and requirements of domestic and foreign customers, especially when Vietnam has integrated into the world economy through signing many trade agreements.
Engaging in these agreements, we will also encounter barriers, especially technical ones that Vietnamese businesses need to learn carefully to meet certification quality standards for importing countries," Tam emphasized.
Economic experts also stated that in order to improve product quality and productivity and develop markets, Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises need to find ways to become involved in the supply chain for FDI businesses, supporting industrial product chain, while also supplying domestic investors.
According to Nguyen Anh Duong, head of the General Research Department under the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), to overcome challenges, local businesses need to take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and attract FDI, FTAs, and enhance digital transformation and green recovery to accelerate market development.
Businesses also need to stay creative, improve management capacity, and promote "Made in Vietnam" products based on innovation spirit and e-commerce development, he added.
Bright prospect for Vietnam-Japan relations: Japanese scholar
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| Dr Tomotaka Shoji, Director of the Regional Research Division at the National Institute for Defence Studies under the Japanese Ministry of Defence. (Photo: VNA) |
Dr Tomotaka Shoji, Director of the Regional Research Division at the National Institute for Defence Studies under the Japanese Ministry of Defence, has said that Vietnam-Japan relations have potential for further development, according to Vietnam News Agency.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency's resident correspondent ahead of President Vo Van Thuong’s official visit to Japan from 27-30, the Japanese scholar said that in the context that this year marks the 50th founding anniversary of Japan-Vietnam diplomatic ties and the 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Japan friendship and cooperation, the visit is an opportunity for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Thuong to reaffirm the strength of the bilateral relations and further development of bilateral/multilateral ties.
According to Dr. Shoji, Japanese people consider Vietnam an ideal tourist destination due to its close geographical location, attractive sites and cuisine. He assessed that Vietnam is a very fast-growing economy and its people are full of energy.
He also expressed his delight that Vietnamese people feel familiar with Japan and Japanese people find that Vietnamese people are very friendly, especially when there are many Vietnamese people living in the East Asian country. The feeling of familiarity plays an important role in promoting Japan's cooperation with Vietnam, he continued.
Regarding the strengths of the Vietnam-Japan relations, Shoji affirmed that the two countries can establish and maintain strong bilateral relations thanks to geographical proximity, ethnic sympathy, and economic complementarity and converging strategic interests.
He said that the first strength is economic collaboration, emphasising that bilateral cooperation in this field has obtained strong progress. Japan has long valued economic cooperation in its foreign policy. With strong economic potential, Japan wants to promote its advantages to strengthen relations with Vietnam. Security is also a very important area of cooperation, Shoji said, elaborating that the two sides have many prospects for cooperation in this regard.
Touching on challenges in the bilateral relations, he said that despite good relations between the two countries, Vietnam and Japan still need to resolve a number of issues, including policies relating to technical apprentices. It is necessary for the two countries to maintain and deepen their relationship by collaborating more in areas such as sustainable economy, environmental protection and regional security, Shoji said. He expressed his confidence that cooperation in the economic and security fields between the two countries will continue to develop in the coming time.
Shoji noted that there are many issues that affect not only Vietnam and Japan, but also other countries in the world, such as climate change. Each country is facing different problems, such as the environment. Therefore, he believed that Japan and Vietnam should work together to solve these problems and this could be a potential area of cooperation in the future./.