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Vietnam welcomed over 15,000 foreign tourists in November, up 42.4 percent from the figure in October, the General Statistics Office announced on November 29.

Ho Chi Minh City lost around VND10 trillion ($425 million) in first-quarter tourism revenue, with its foreign visitor numbers plummeting 42 percent year-on-year due to the novel coronavirus.

To achieve sustainable forest development, the forestry sector has three tasks of protecting forests, enhancing forest productivity, and increasing the value and quality of forest production.

The rice export value of Laos in the first six months of 2017 dropped 42 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

Vietnam aims to increase the total forest coverage to 42 percent, equivalent to 14.4 million hectares, by 2020.

Car sales in Vietnam were posted at 25,725 units in April, soaring by 42 percent from a year earlier, according to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA).