A festival that promotes Vietnamese people’s lunar New Year – known as Tet - was launched on January 16 evening in Ho Chi Minh City to welcome the coming 2022 Tet that falls on February 1.

NA Standing Committee's 7th session to open on January 18

Electric vehicles to be exempt from registration fee from March

Total funding into Vietnamese startups over the past year is likely to have reached a new high with more startups crossing over into a unicorn status.

The luxury and mid-priced apartment segments will continue to lead the market in 2022, while affordable apartments will remain scarce.

The Vietnamese stock market has witnessed drastic changes in both quality and quantity in 2021 and the trend will continue this year, BIDV Securities Company said in a recent report.

Vietnam pales in comparison with Japan and China in regard to the size of the luxury market, but it has a great potential to become a highly profitable market in the near future.

In December 2021, the market benchmark VN-Index could have surpassed 1,498 points if it were not affected by the holiday, Dragon Capital said in a recent report.

Located around 70 kilometres from the capital Hanoi, Kien Khe town in Thanh Liem district, Ha Nam province, is renowned for its So Kien sesame rice crackers. 

The northern provinces of Lao Cai and Quang Ninh have decided to temporarily halt receiving vehicles of fresh fruits for export to China via some of their border gates and crossings, as congestion is still lingering there.

Ho Chi Minh City, the epicenter of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam, recorded 15 COVID-19 related deaths, including six severely ill cases earlier transferred from neighbouring localities for treatment.

Overall, in 2021, Vietnamese football was not as positive as expected after the V-League was postponed and then canceled under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to the latest update from Forbes, total assets of the six billionaires in Vietnam as of December 23, 2021 were up to 19.5 billion USD.

Over the past two years, the pandemic has had a strong impact on digital transformation in general and cashless payments in particular.

The data announced by the General Statistics Office in late 2021 described Vietnam’s economic picture in a turbulent year surrounded by the pandemic, the fear of disruption of supply chains, and the confidence of the business community.

According to experts, despite being at the top in the region for online games, many Vietnamese businesses are registered and pay tax in Singapore instead of Vietnam.

Data released recently by the General Statistics Office shows that in 2021 the average monthly income of workers in Vietnam was 5.7 million VND, down 32,000 VND compared to 2020.

Economic and industrial parks nationwide drew 539 foreign-invested and 615 domestic projects with a total registered capital of 12.8 billion USD last year despite COVID-19 pandemic, up 15 percent annually.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc inspected combat readiness for the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival at the Military Region 5 High Command in the central city of Da Nang on January 16.

The Ministry of Health confirmed 15,684 new Covid infections on Sunday, January 16, including 41 imported cases and 15,643 domestic transmissions in 61 cities and provinces nationwide, falling by over 660 cases against yesterday.