- Vietnam was placed 68th out of the 120 countries in the Open Budget Survey(OBS) 2021 recently released by the International Budget Partnership (IBP), upnine spots against 2019 and 23 against 2017, the Ministry of Finance announcedon June 9.
The countrygained six points in all the three components – Transparency, PublicParticipation and Budget Oversight – compared to 2019. Read full story
- Ambassador Nguyen Hai Bang, Permanent Representativeof Vietnam to ASEAN, attended the 48th meeting of the Board of Trustees of theASEAN Foundation (AF BOT 48) in Jakarta on June 9 which praised Vietnam’ssuccessful chairmanship of the foundation in 2021. Read full story
- Vietnamese officials affirmed the country’s consistent efforts to guaranteenuclear safety and security and to apply atomic energy in service ofsustainable development during a recent meeting with representatives of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

- Complicated developments of strategic tradecompetition among countries, impacts of the prolonged and unpredictable of theconflict in Ukraine on the global economy, risks of inflation and slowdown ofthe world's economic growth have required Vietnam to diversify its tradingpartners, Vietnamese Ambassador to Slovakia Nguyen Tuan has said.
He made thestatement at a seminar, which was held in Slovakia on June 7, aiming to connectorganisations and businesses in Slovakia with Vietnamese partners, therebypromoting economic and trade cooperation between the two countries in the nearfuture. Read full story
- Vietnam Data Summit 2022, the first of its kind in Vietnam, will be held bythe Ho Chi Minh Computer Association (HCA) and Western Digital Vietnam in thesouthern city on June 24, heard a press conference on June 10. Read full story
- The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre celebrated its40th founding anniversary on June 10, a milestone on the path to recover andbring into play values of the Nguyen Dynasty’s tangible and intangible culturalheritages. Read full story
- Vietnamwill face Saudi Arabia in the quarterfinals of the ongoing Asian FootballConfederation (AFC) U23 Championship in Uzbekistan. Read full story
- Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trinh Thi has been named onthe shortlist of the UK’s leading biennial exhibition and largest contemporaryart prize, Artes Mundi 10 (AM 10). Read full story./.