The annual Asia-Pacific Women CEOs in Cooperatives Summit, held as part of the International Cooperative Alliance Asia-Pacific (ICA-AP) Regional Board Meeting, carries the theme "Empowering Leadership: Navigating the Future of Cooperatives with Women at the Helm".
Some 20 years after the Asian financial crisis brought many Southeast Asian nations to their knees, business sentiment is buoyant in a region that now functions as one of the primary engines of global growth.
An overwhelming majority of Vietnamese business heads are confident about growing revenues and profits in the coming years and preparing to adapt to the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), a new survey has found.
Foreign investors remain positive about the prospects for Viet Nam’s stock market as the country grows and adopts more open policies, foreign CEOs said in a discussion panel at the ASEAN Business Summit last week.
The number of Vietnamese women in senior positions in public companies
is still very small, but the picture does appear brighter if one looks
at Viet Nam''s largest companies.
The opportunities and challenges arising from the formation of the ASEAN
Economic Community, and what strategies Vietnamese firms should apply
to stay afloat will be among the issues on the agenda at the Viet Nam
CEO Forum to be held in HCM City...