Vietnam's information technology giant FPT Corporation reported revenue and pre-tax profit of over 17 trillion VND (732.5 million USD) and nearly 3 trillion VND (129.3 million USD) in the first eight months of this year, up 21 percent and 28 percent, respectively.
Phones and components led all export items to the Republic of Korea (RoK) in the first eight months of 2019, accounting for 26.4 percent of total shipments, data of the General Department of Customs showed.
Ho Chi Minh City received about 3.45 billion USD in remittances sent back home by overseas Vietnamese in the first eight months of 2019, a year-on-year increase of 8 percent, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s HCM City Branch.
Vietnam’s total revenues for retail trade and services reached an estimated 3.21 quadrillion VND (137.4 billion USD) in the first eight months of 2019, up 11.5 percent year on year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has announced.
Hanoi welcomed over 19.3 million tourists in the first eight months of 2019, a year-on-year increase of 9.5 percent, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
The agro-forestry-fishery sector raked in an estimate 3.64 billion USD from exports in August, raising the total value in the first eight months of the year to 26.6 billion USD, up 1.6 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The number of dengue cases in the Philippines has surged to 188,000 with 807 deaths in the first eight months of this year, the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) reported on August 20.
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