Mekong Delta’s export turnover in 6 months reaches over US$10 billion

Six years ago, Le Ngoc Tan Anh, who has cerebral palsy, brought his great passion for journalism when entering the exam room. Though his dream did not come true, he eventually obtained a higher education level, and expects to become a teacher.

Inadequate transport infrastructure and connectivity, and domestic enterprises’ low capacity and slow technology adoption and digital transformation are hindering the otherwise rapidly growing logistics industry, experts have said.

Techfest Hanoi 2023 slated for October

As of July, the tourism sector had achieved 83% of its yearly target in the number of international visitors, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietnam has actively participated in discussions and contributed ideas in the negotiation process of a global treaty on plastics pollution, an official has said.

Regarding the case of farm produce exports to the UAE, reported by VietNamNet several days ago, the buyer’s bank in the UAE has checked the payment procedures and found signs of fraud, and is carrying out an internal investigation.

Regulations on criteria for “made-in-Vietnam” products have not been issued since the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s proposal five years ago due to difficulties in origin traceability and worries over the burden of compliance costs on enterprises.

Domestic enterprises imported a total of 6.26 million tonnes of petroleum products worth 4.95 billion USD in the first seven months of 2023, up 15% year on year in volume and down 13.5% in value.

Lending interest rates will drop sharply in the second half of 2023 as capital costs of commercial banks are falling, analysts forecast.

Airbus, the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (CCIFV) and local NGO Gaia Nature Conversation (Gaia), have jointly launched the "Community Forest" project in the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) on August 11 held a workshop reviewing ten years of implementing the 11th Party Central Committee's Resolution No.24-NQ/TW on proactive responding to climate change.

Doctors in hospitals in Vietnam have mastered advanced techniques to save premature babies weighing only 400 grams.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced its permission for Vietnam to export fresh husked coconut to the country.

The insurance sector is attracting the attention of investors when it comes to investment portfolios because businesses in this group have recorded positive results in recent years.

Vietnam is currently devising a project to develop a domestic carbon market, focusing on the mandatory trading of GHG emissions quotas for industries and businesses in the domestic market, while also considering international market integration.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has issued its final determination that certain imported products from Vietnam do not evade the anti-dumping and countervailing duties that the US is applying to similar items from Taiwan.

Anh Viet Hop on Hop off Vietnam Co., Ltd based in Ho Chi Minh City has become the official partner in Vietnam of Rail Europe Company that specialises in providing train tickets and rail passes for travel in Europe under an agreement inked recently.

Big data on e-commerce would help the tax watchdog to efficiently collect tax from foreign cross-border IT services providers, according to Nguyen Bang Thang, director of Tax Management Department of Large Enterprises.

Ho Chi Minh City’s waterway tourism is expected to earn 300 billion VND (12.6 million USD) per year this year and next year, and increase 10% in the following years.