NA Standing Committee opens 8th session

On the afternoon of February 14, in Hanoi, the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union announced 20 nominations for the online voting round of the Outstanding Vietnamese Young Citizen Award in 2021.

Vietnam’s wood industry continues to grow

A spice made of aromatic grass and ant eggs can only be found in GiaLai and five-color vermicelli in CaoBang are among the unusual products that can be found in Vietnam.

The capital city of Hanoi will spend a total of over 1.8 trillion VND (79.1 million USD) on mitigating traffic congestion and ensuring traffic safety in the city for the 2021-2025 period.

The global market’s attention in the next one to three months will be the speed in policy tightening by the US Federal Reversal and Vietnamese business outlook in that environment, SGI Capital said in a recent report.

In a recent report, HSBC adjusted its prediction for Vietnam's inflation this year from 2.7 per cent to 3 per cent, a slight increase but with negligible risk as the economy has shown signs of a strong rebound in the making. 

Before becoming a senior program manager at Amazon’s head office in Seattle, Thu Van had faced 1,000 job-application rejections.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday chaired the fourth meeting of the national steering committee for reviewing land laws and policies, with the ultimate aim improving the interests of State, businesses and people. 

Foreign retail businesses are adopting a multi-channel sales strategy as well as improved operations and delivery services to expand Vietnam operations despite pandemic impacts.

Vietnam shared experience in promoting poverty reduction and overcoming difficulties during crisis at the 60th session of the UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD) that is taking place from February 7-16 in New York.

A series of 180 events will be held throughout this year as part of the “Visit Vietnam Year – Quang Nam 2022”, according to a plan recently approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The steps to create bamboo dragonflies are simple but require meticulosity and accuracy in every detail.

In recent years, businesses and people have increasingly participated in the policy making process.

Some candidates for the titles of professor and associate professor in mathematics have been weeded out. The surprise that the figure was nearly 60 percent of the total.

To ensure business operations in the new normal period, omnichannel sales and digital transformation have become the keywords of Vietnamese businesses.

A report on the competitiveness of the Vietnamese automotive industry released in late 2021 shows that in the 2017-2019 period, the top manufacturers of cars with less than 9 seats were foreign brands.

Although the tourism industry has been heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Hanoi is still ranked in the list of cities as the most attractive destinations in the world.

Nguyen Van Than, Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, said up to 70% of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises are outside the digital economy, and only about 20% are learning about it.

An old Asian scholar once said: “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” And he was not wrong.

An economic recovery package worth VND350 trillion, the largest package so far, to be disbursed in 2022 and 2023, offers many supportive measures. Workers experiencing difficulties can borrow money to buy or rent social housing.

Missosology, the world’s leading publication on beauty pageants, has named Vietnamese representative Do Thi Ha among its Final Hot Picks of the leading 15 beauties participating in the Miss World 2021 pageant.

An array of historical and cultural sites across Hanoi, including Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) and Hoa Lo Prison (Maison Centrale) will reopen to visitors as of February 15.

Vietnam needs considerable international support in terms of concessional capital to take measures for concurrently ensuring national energy security and achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

The rising global oil and gas prices will affect domestic production as oil and gas cost makes up around 3.52 percent of the economy's total production costs, thus pushing up product prices.