A total 2,762 traffic accidents were reported in the first quarter of 2022 (from December 15, 2021 to March 14, 2022), down 662 (19.33 percent) from the same period last year, heard a virtual conference on traffic safety in Q1 held on April 14.
About 490,000 children in Vietnam were confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son.
Profits of the banking industry in the third quarter of 2021 would decrease by 19 percent compared to the previous quarter due to slowing credit growth and increasing provision expenses, Yuanta Securities Vietnam estimated.
The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang exported close to 850 million USD worth of goods in the first eight months, meeting 85 percent of its yearly plan and increasing 19 percent year-on-year.
Industrial production in the northern province of Ha Nam totalled 110.69 trillion VND (nearly 4.78 billion USD) last year, a 19 percent increase against 2019 and 5 percent higher than the annual plan, despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
FPT Corporation achieved revenue of 6.63 trillion VND (282.6 million USD) and pre-tax profit of 1.14 trillion VND (48.6 million USD) in the first quarter of the year, a year-on-year increase of 17 percent and 18.9 percent, respectively, surpassing 2 percent of its target.
Sales of enterprises operating in automobile and motorbikes manufacturing and assembling in the northern province of Vinh Phuc were estimated to exceed 258 million USD since the beginning of 2019, a year-on-year increase of 19 percent.
A study shows that the rate of overweight and obese primary students is 29 percent while that among secondary school students and high school students is 19 percent and 9.5 percent, respectively.
Bao Viet Group posted nearly 8.1 trillion VND (348.2 million) in insurance revenue in the first quarter of 2019, a year-on-year increase of 19 percent.
The volume of cargo passing through seaports across Vietnam rose by 19 percent to 431 million tonnes in the first 10 months of 2018, according to Vietnam Maritime Administration (VMA).
Maximum credit growth this year is forecast to be just 18-19 percent, meaning that the banking system will not use up the increased room of 21 percent.
The insurance sector reported growth of 19 percent in premium income in the first five months of this year, topping 38.7 trillion VND (1.7 billion USD), the Insurance Association of Vietnam said.
An additional 481 million USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) landed in the southern province of Binh Duong in Quarter I, representing a year-on-year increase of 19 percent.
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