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.
Malaysia’s property sector will continue to face many challenges in 2023, due to a clear oversupply of properties in certain sectors and locations in the country, said insiders.
Vietnam’s economy is expected to grow by 7.2% in 2022, on the back of a strong rebound in domestic demand and continued solid performance by export-oriented manufacturing, according to the World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2022.
Thailand’s export turnover in July 2022 rose 4.3% from the same period last year to nearly 23.63 billion USD, much lower than the growth of 11.9% in the previous month, according to the Thai Ministry of Commerce.
The Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC) has warned that Thailand risks long-term economic and social effects if the Government imposes another blockade due to the spread of the Omicron variant.
The shopping festival Black Friday, modelled after the biggest shopping event of the year in the US, was kicked off on November 19 in Ho Chi Minh City with many shopping centres and stores offering discounts of up to 70 percent. It is expected to last until the end of this month.
A social network campaign called “Plastic-19 Lockdown Challenge” was launched by UNESCO and the Centre for Supporting Green Development (GreenHub) on October 15 to inspire the community to reduce the use of plastics.
Ho Chi Minh City is committed to enforcing vigilant pandemic prevention measures when it reopens the economy after months of strict lockdown measures, said a city leader.
The Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee and the sub-committee for mobilising social assistance under the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on September 16 launched a programme calling for more support from people nationwide for the COVID-19 fight.
Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said on September 14 that more economic sectors will be allowed to reopen as the COVID-19 lockdown is no longer feasible amid fears that it can have more negative implications.
Vietnam’s economy will recover on the back of solid growth achieved in the first half of 2021 after the lockdown is lifted, Dorsati Madani, Senior Economist at the World Bank (WB) Vietnam, has said.
Production is continuing at six industrial zones and hi-tech parks in the central city of Da Nang, while nearly 80 percent of the total labour force has been maintained since the city began lockdown on August 16.
After Hoan Kiem district’s Chuong Duong ward, Dong Da district’s Van Chuong and Van Mieu wards - the largest medical quarantine areas in Ha Noi - also has lockdown basically removed.
Authorities of Hoan Kiem district in downtown Hanoi decided to lift the medical lockdown imposed on its Chuong Duong ward at the stroke of September 12.
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