Vietnam reported a trade surplus in 2022, the seventh consecutive year, of $11 billion, nearly three times higher than 2021.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), which has finished the largest inspection ever of petrol distributors, said that many enterprises couldn’t satisfy requirements but were still allowed to distribute products.

The export value of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through Amazon’s e-commerce platform enjoyed a high growth rate of over 45% last year, according to figures released by Amazon Global Selling.

From November 2022 to March 2023, about 4,000 Korean golfers will visit Vinh Phuc to travel and to play golf.

The target of 6.5% economic growth set by the National Assembly for next year, lower than the growth of 8.02% recorded in 2022, will be a challenge, said General Director of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Thi Huong.

According to Booking.com’s 2023 Travel Predictions, over half (61%) of Vietnamese travelers are looking to escape in the new year by embarking on an ‘off-grid’ vacation.

The Ministry of Public has expanded the ongoing probe into widespread violations at auto inspection centers by searching the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department under Vietnam Register in Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi City.

Roughly half of the registration facilities in HCMC have stopped working recently, causing long queues of vehicles to rush to complete their periodic safety inspection and registration.

Disbursement of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam in 2022 is estimated at nearly 22.4 billion USD, up 13.5% year-on-year, making it the highest amount in the past five years, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on December 29.

The handbook released by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) serves as an important tool to help the community of users to recognize false news, thereby joining forces to eliminate fake news and false news on cyberspace.

The British Embassy Hanoi and UNICEF have handed over £500,000 in life-saving equipment to the Ministry of Health to assist recovery of Vietnam’s health system.

Vietnam’s tourism sector targets to serve about 8 million foreign visitors from the total of 110 million next year, according to the General Administration of Vietnam Tourism.

The 2023 performance season of the Saigon Opera House will begin with a concert named “A night of Mendelssohn & Prokofiev” on January 3.

Vietnam’s import-export turnover in December is estimated at 58.82 billion USD, up 2.7% over the previous month, pushing the total in the whole year to 732.5 billion USD, a year on year rise of 9.5%, with a trade surplus of 11.2 billion USD.

Gov't disburses over 38.5 million USD for Cat Linh–Ha Dong railway project

The Party and State have always created optimal conditions for religious organisations and individuals to practice their religions and beliefs.

A string of fresh policies on higher retirement age of female workers, intellectual property rights, and insurance business will come into effect from January, 2023.

Gov’t strengthens prevention of biodiversity crime

According to statistics from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the communication service market generated around VND 138,000 billion in 2022, an increase of 1.6 percent compared to 2021.

Standing at the 55 th place in the worldwide government AI readiness index and 6 th in the ASEAN one, VN’s average point of 53.96 surpasses the world’s average of 44.61.