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Below are the top 10 world events of 2019 voted for by the Vietnam News Agency.

Below is a recap of ten of the year’s most consequential headlines impacting consumers, investors and financial markets worldwide chosen by the Vietnam News Agency.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on December 27 launched a nationwide network of stations that constantly log and process satellite-based GPS data for better mapping and surveys.

Below are the top 10 world events of 2019 voted by the Vietnam News Agency.

Supplies of poultry and pork products are expected to be sufficient in HCM City during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, which falls on January 25.

Vietnam needs new approaches that are designed based on geographic conditions and cultural characteristics of ethnic minority communities in order to address the persistent malnutrition among ethnic minority children, said a report of the World Bank.

Following a global trend of share buybacks, many Vietnamese businesses are now repurchasing their own stocks to stablise prices.

The state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is preparing to develop the country's first floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) worth 24.5 billion baht (807.8 million USD) to support its business plan to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2020.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,135 VND per USD on November 4, down 3 VND from the last working day of previous week (November 1).

Hanoi leads the country in implementing the national programme on agriculture development and new-style rural areas.

One in every three Vietnamese children under the age of five is either malnourished or overweight as a result of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, heard a ceremony in Hanoi on October 16 to release the UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2019 report.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)'s exchange rate management policy has been appropriate and effective, creating benefits for the economy and confidence for the market.

The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture on October 1 threatened legal action against hog traders ignoring strict animal quarantine rules.

Experts have said that the reduction in the central bank’s interest rate will also help stabilise lending rates.

With a positive macroeconomic background at the moment, interest rates will basically stay steady until the end of the year due to excessive liquidity and proper credit growth, according to an official from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s reference interest rate cut will allow credit institutions to access capital from central bank at a lower cost and stablise their own rates.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) said the official interest rates will be adjusted down as from September 16.

With ultra-loose monetary policy worldwide, nominal interest rates of 95 central banks have been cut 38 percentage points from the outset of the year, and gold has become the most profitable channel.

In the first eight months of the year, the overall inflation was higher than the core inflation. This reflected that the price fluctuations were mainly due to the hike in prices of food, foodstuff, ga

Central Vietnam's first forest school has been launched in Son Tra Nature Reserve to provide an outdoor education site for school students in the central city of Da Nang.