Medical workers from the Cho Ray and Thong Nhat hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have left for Ca Mau and Ninh Thuan provinces to help with the COVID-19 fight there.
The administration of Hanoi is scheduled to hold a dialogue with foreign invested businesses on October 19 to seek ways to tackle difficulties facing them amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior expert Veeramalla Anjaiah from the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) in Indonesia has expressed his appreciation for Vietnam’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
Travel firms in Ho Chi Minh City have resumed selling tours as the southern metropolis has allowed tourism services in “green zones” after a period of social distancing due to COVID-19.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) held a teleconference with Samsung Vietnam and its suppliers on October 14, affirming that the ministry’s top priority now is assisting businesses in Vietnam to achieve the “twin targets” of ensuring safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic and maintaining production to avoid disruptions to supply chains.
Vietnam Motor Show 2021, the largest annual automobile and motorbike expo in the country, has been cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic impacts, the organising board announced on October 13.
The outbreak of COVID-19 in many localities has delayed the equitisation of State-owned enterprises (SOEs), according to Dang Quyet Tien, director of the Corporate Finance Department.
Routine immunisation of children has resumed in HCM City, the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, after being temporarily halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the HCM City Centre for Disease Control (HCDC).
Ho Chi Minh City residents are returning to one of their favourite pastimes - in-store shopping - now that lockdown restrictions have eased. The southern city’s shopping malls have begun drawing in large crowds after reopening their doors.
Five more tourist destinations in Thailand will be opened to visitors starting November 1 on the condition that there is no new large COVID-19 cluster in the areas until then.
Leading technology company FPT Corporation reported a 20.9 percent year-on-year increase in pre-tax profits to 2,936 billion VND (127.7 million USD) in the first half of this year on a turnover of 16,228 billion VND (705.6 million USD), up 19.2 percent.
The Government Office has instructed the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport and the State Bank of Vietnam to study a proposal by the Vietnam Aviation Business Association (VABA), in which the airline industry is to gain access to 25 trillion VND (over 1.1 billion USD) of zero-interest loans.
Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh said on October 6 that the China-Laos Railway will open on December 2 this year as scheduled, according to Vientiane Times.
The Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labour announced on October 7 that it has spent over 1.39 trillion VND (60.4 million USD) as relief aid for 2.4 million trade union members, workers, civil servants, labourers and their children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the city.
In order to bring the country into a new normal, Laos has begun to allow garment factories that meet COVID-19 prevention and control requirements to resume operations.
The capital city of Hanoi did not record any new COVID-19 infections in the past 12 hours to 6am on October 6, according to the municipal Department of Health.
Singapore-based financial service supplier DBS has predicted that Vietnam’s economic growth may reach 8 percent in 2022 thanks to rising flows of FDI and exports and digitalisation impetus.
Thailand's manufacturing production index (MPI) in August decreased by 4.15 percent from a year earlier, the lowest level in 13 months, according to the latest data from the Office of Industrial Economics.
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