☕ Afternoon briefing on July 26
Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency on July 26.
- Prime Minister Pham
Minh Chinh has ordered COVID-19 vaccination be sped up in the face of the
pandemic resurgence in some countries.
He made the request in an official dispatch sent to the
People’s Committees of provinces and cities nationwide, ministries,
ministry-level and government agencies on July 25.Read full story
- Vietjet on July 25
jubilantly commenced operation of Ho Chi Minh City – Busan service with the
maiden flight warmly welcomed with water cannon at Gimhae International Airport.
The inaugural flight of Da Nang - Busan service also took off
on July 20 while the Hanoi/Nha Trang - Busan routes have been back to service
from July 1 and July 21 respectively. Read full story
- Vietnam’s process
manufacturing sector has to date attracted 252 billion USD in foreign direct
investment (FDI), accounting for nearly 60% of the total foreign capital poured
into the Southeast Asian country.
According to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry
of Planning and Investment, there are currently 34,898 valid FDI projects worth
426.14 billion USD in Vietnam. Read full story
- Vietnam is on
the right track in accelerating its decisive economic reform, but an upgrade is
needed to meet the government's aspirations of sustained, inclusive, and green
growth, said an expert from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
According to Era Dabla-Norris, head of the IMF’s Article IV
Consultation of the Department of Asia-Pacific, one of the most important
challenges holding back productivity and hindering an efficient allocation of
resources is the pervasive economic differences across firms, sectors, and
workers. Read full story
- The Joint
Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) has reported
an impressive pre-tax profit of 17.3 trillion VND (740.1 million USD) in the
first half of 2022.
In the January-June period, the bank’s bad debt provision
rate reached a record of over 500%, the highest in the market. Read full story
- The Republic of
Korea (RoK) on July 26 received 153 Vietnamese labourers under the Employment
Permit System (EPS).
Among these labourers, 110 will work in the manufacturing industry,
while the others in the fishery sector. Read full story
- The Vietnam
National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is adopting measures to fulfill the
target of welcoming 5 million foreign tourists this year, according to VNAT
General Director Nguyen Trung Khanh.
The VNAT will further optimise markets that have resumed air routes with Vietnam and those that permitted their citizens to travel abroad and Vietnamese expats to return to the homeland after the COVID-19 pandemic was put under control./. Read full story