As the resurgence of COVID-19 in Vietnam has been basically brought under control, the tourism sector in the capital city of Hanoi has been swiftly making plans to attract visitors again and gradually return to previous levels of growth.
The Handicraft and Wood Industry Association (HAWA) of Ho Chi Minh City said it plans several measures to add value to Vietnam’s handicrafts and wood products, help its members further penetrate the global supply chain and enable Vietnam to become a leading producer and exporter of quality, branded and reputed furniture and forestry products.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a document, asking tourism management departments, tourism associations and businesses to continue carrying out domestic tourism stimulus programmes in the remaining months of 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on the banking system’s non-performing loans (NPLs), requiring significant efforts to keep NPLs ratio below 3percent by the end of this year as targeted by the Government.
Footwear exports this year are unlikely to hit the target of 24 billion USD because of the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
As of the end of June, the total area of coffee being sustainably grown in the five central highlands provinces exceeded 36,266 ha, a conference held on September 16 on accelerating the progress of the Vietnam Sustainable Agriculture Transformation Project (VnSAT) heard.
The first International Expo on Support Industries and Processing - Manufacturing (VIMEXPO 2020) is scheduled to take place from December 9-11 at Hanoi’s International Centre for Exhibition (ICE) on Tran Hung Dao Street.
The central province of Binh Dinh posted a 21 percent year-on-year increase in wood exports to 373 million USD during January-August despite disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite having great potential, Vietnamese rice-based products remain rudimentary and unpolished, severely hampering their ability to compete on the global market, according to industry experts.
The PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertiliser Co., Ltd. (PVCFC)’s total urea output reached the milestone 7 millionth tonne on September 13 after almost ten years of operations.
Russia appreciates the efforts made by Vietnam as the Chair of ASEAN in 2020 and other ASEAN-led mechanisms, according to Russian Ambassador to ASEAN Alexander Ivanov.
Hancom Mobility, the company that provides the parking lot sharing platform service, is also a platform that combines the effective assets of the parking lot and core technologies of Industry 4.0.
The Indonesian Finance Ministry has said the State revenue till August this year reached 1.028 quadrillion rupiahs (some 69.5 billion USD), or 60.2 percent of the amended state budget that amounted to nearly 1.7 quadrillion rupiahs.
The northern province of Vinh Phuc’s industry has been growing to become a key economic sector that contributes greatly to the local gross regional domestic production (GRDP).
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) to maintain its position as a trustworthy information centre of the Party and State and a prestigious news agency in the region.
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