Total revenue from retail sales of consumer goods and services in May was estimated at 519 trillion VND (22.09 billion USD), an increase of 1.5% over the previous month and 11.5% year on year thanks to the long holidays in the beginning of the month, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Youngsters from the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia have joined an international student festival at the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) in Moscow, Russia.
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must make greater efforts to improve the quality of life in the region to build a resilient community and achieve a faster recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, said a new report released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Vietnam is seeing a great opportunity to access the mRNA technology for vaccine production, said Patrick Haverman, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Vietnam, at a workshop held by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI) under the Ministry of Health in Hanoi on May 22.
The Government Office has issued an official document on COVID-19 prevention and control in the new context, mentioning the possibility of announcing the end of the pandemic.
Firms in supporting industries in Vietnam are in desperate need of high-qualified and skilled workers in addition to solutions regarding capital and raw materials.
Despite impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign direct investment (FDI) is still being poured into Vietnam, contributing importantly to turning the country into a new production hub of the world.
In a bid to revive the struggling tourism sector, Vietnam is set to unveil a series of new visa and immigration policies at the upcoming National Assembly meeting.
The Ministry of Health has asked authorities of provinces and centrally-run cities nationwide to pay special attention to strengthening the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic and other dangerous epidemics before, during and after the national holidays of Hung Kings Commemoration Day, Reunification Day and May Day from April 29 to May 3.
Vietnam sent over 37,900 labourers abroad in the first three months of 2023, accounting for over 34% of the whole year plan, and more than 15 times higher than the same period in 2022.
About 45 Canadian scholars and experts gathered at an online conference in Toronto on April 24 to discuss the development of the Vietnamese nation and people after 48 years of national reunification.
A total of 67 million children around the world, including nearly 250,000 in Vietnam, missed out on vaccinations between 2019 and 2021, with vaccination coverage levels decreasing in 112 countries, UNICEF warned on April 20 in a new report on immunisation.
The number of tourists to the central city of Da Nang in the first three months of this year has recovered to the level recorded in the same period of 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, according to Cao Tri Dung, Chairman of the Da Nang Tourism Association.
Vietnam's economy will grow by 6.6% this year and at a similar rate in 2024, according to a report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Since Vietnam and Malaysia set up their diplomatic relations 50 years ago, their ties have been expanded extensively and comprehensively across all pillars of Party, State and people diplomacy, stated Chargé d'affaires of the Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh.
Strengthening the effectiveness of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) institutions in terms of decision-making was the subject of discussion at the First Meeting of the ASEAN SOM Working Group on Decision Making Process (SOM WG on DMP) which took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 21-22.
World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Vietnam Dr Angela Pratt has said that Vietnam is in the sustainable management phase of the COVID-19 pandemic as the situation continues to stabilise with a very low number of reported daily cases, and importantly no reported deaths in over two months.
Indonesian Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno said his ministry will collaborate with Skouw Cross-Border Post (PLBN), Jayapura, Papua, Chief Administrator Yan Numberi, for tourism and creative economy development in Indonesia-Papua New Guinea (PNG) border.
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