Total revenue of the State budget in January was estimated at 114.2 trillion VND, equivalent to 8.7 percent of the year’s estimate and up 5.2 percent from the same period last year.
Vietnamese shares rose slightly on January 30 after falling during the morning session, due to investors’ profit-taking attempts that hit large-cap stocks in the brokerage, real estate and construction sectors.
Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) in January rose by 0.19 percent against that of December 2017 and 2.57 percent year-on-year, announced the municipal Statistics Office on November 29.
The prime ministers of Australia and Japan committed to having the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) signed by March.
Vietnamese Ambassador to China Dang Minh Khoi has applauded China’s press and press management agencies for their wide coverage of Vietnam as well as relations between the two countries.
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.
The Malaysian Government signed a deal with US-based Ocean Infinity in a new attempt to search for the missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft MH370 in which the firm will receive up to 70 million USD if it finds the jet.
The government of Malaysia on January 5 agreed to an offer by a US exploration company to resume the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The high-level court on December 22 upheld the verdict for Tran Thi Nga, who was previously sentenced to a nine-year imprisonment on the charge of conducting anti-State propaganda.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine held a cultural exchange in Kiev on November 20 gathering 40 teachers and students in Kremenchuk city of Poltava province.
China’s Foreign Ministry affirmed that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact will not affect the prospects for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) deal.
Talks on pushing ahead the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal without the US reached an upbeat point, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said at the TPP Ministerial Meeting which opened in the central coastal city of Da Nang on November 9.
Vietnam Airlines was awarded the prestigious “CAPA Asia Pacific Airline of the Year” at the 2017 CAPA Asia Pacific Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit held in Singapore on November 8.
The National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam will closely coordinate with the Vietnamese Government and the Lao counterparts to successfully carry out the Lao NA House project whose construction began in Vientiane on November 1, said a top legislator.
President Tran Dai Quang has called on Vietnam and Hungary to continue their close coordination to soon select projects to use Hungary’s preferential loans effectively and pragmatically, for the sake of the two countries’ people.
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed that Vietnam always treasures developing ties with traditional friends in the Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary as a priority partner.
Chief negotiators of the 11 remaining countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement began two-day talks in Tokyo, Japan on September 21 to discuss changes and freezes to parts of the deal following the withdrawal of the US earlier this year.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov have discussed measures to further boost multifaceted cooperation between the two nations
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