Greater efforts and determination were needed to thoroughly tackle stagnant State-owned projects and create new resources and motivation to revive these projects and enable them to promote the country’s economic development.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at 23,105 VND/USD on April 7, up 5 VND from the previous day.

The Vietnamese economy expanded at 5.03 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to the General Statistics Office.

A Vietnam-UK startup cooperation seminar, the last event of the Vietnam Days in the UK 2022, took place at the AstraZeneca global research and development center in Cambridge on April 5.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony marking the resumption of 10 air routes of Vietjet from/to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on April 6.

Seven Vietnamese names are among the 2,668 of dollar billionaires worldwide as per Forbes' latest update to its annual rich list.

The Asian Development Bank maintained its forecast for Vietnam’s GDP growth at 6.5 percent in 2022 and projected the economy to further expand by 6.7 percent in 2023, it was heard at a press conference in Hanoi on April 6 morning.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has emphasised the target of opening Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai by 2025, with quality given the top priority.

While the reduced environmental protection tax lowered petrol prices from April 1, most transport enterprises are struggling.

A seminar was held by Customs E-Magazine in Ho Chi Minh City on April 6 to discuss synchronous solutions to cut input and commercialisation costs, thus reducing import-export spending.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has assigned the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI) to work on building a blue sea economy partnership group to carry out a sustainable development strategy for Vietnam’s maritime economy to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on April 6 commended the diversity of the collective economic sector in Tien Giang province, which has remarkably contributed to local socio-economic development and poverty reduction.

The Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical JSC (BSR) posted over 2 trillion VND (over 87.44 million USD) in after-tax profit in the first quarter of 2022, up 8 percent year-on-year, surpassing the yearly target by 45 percent.

Vietnam’s total revenue from retail sales of goods and services reached 1.3 quadrillion (56.9 billion USD) in the first three months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 4.4 percent, according to the General Statistic Office (GSO).