Vietnam welcomed 8.8 million international visitors in the first four months of this year, up 14.6% year on year and marking the highest figure ever recorded for the period.
Throughout 28 years of membership, the economic-trade ties between Vietnam and ASEAN members have grown tremendously, both in scope and depth. In 2022, Vietnam-ASEAN trade reached a record high, exceeding 80 billion USD, compared with 6 billion USD in 1996 when it first joined the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).
The number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the past 24 hours from 4pm February 9 to 4pm February 10 to a record 26,032, including 9 imported cases, up over 2,000 cases from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.
Vietnam’s stock market saw another record this week, with the benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) closing at a new peak of 1,488.87 points, up 25.24 points, on November 24.
The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) set a new record high on November 8 morning, inching up 7.89 points to hit 1,464.4 points on the back of oil, insurance, securities, real estate and retail stocks.
The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) picked up 4.01 points to a new peak of 1,412.56 points in the last minutes of this morning’s trading session.
Vietnam’s trade surplus hit a record high of 18.72 billion USD during the January - October period as imports slowed down amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
The Philippines’ tourism revenue made a record high of 9.31 billion USD in 2019, a year-on-year rise of 20.8 percent, the country’s Department of Tourism (DOT) revealed on March 3.
Turnover from export-import activities and foreign currency service of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho exceeded 2 billion USD in 2018 - a record high in the last 15 years.
Vietnam exported a record high of nearly 1.8 million tonnes of coffee during the 2017-2018 crop, 12.7 percent higher than the previous one, the Vietnam Coffee-Cocoa Association (VICOFA) has said.
Trade volume between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China hit a record high in 2017, according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines ended 2017 with pre-tax profit hitting a record high of over 2.8 trillion VND (123.2 million USD), an increase of 8.3 percent from the previous year and 72 percent higher than the yearly target.
Vietnam’s commercial banks reported solid results for 2017 with the total after-tax profit estimated to grow 44.5 percent from the previous year, according to an independent report of the National Financial Supervisory Commission.