Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has affirmed that with its various advantages and potential, the city is willing to offer all possible support to Moroccan investors to access the Vietnamese market. 

Export turnover of agro-forestry-aquatic products hit $2.97 billion in June, bringing the six-month figure to $17.1 billion, up 13.1 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

Vietnam is strongly committed to weapons of mass destruction disarmament and non-proliferation efforts and actively advocates for the peaceful use of related technologies, said Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga.

HCM City will send 12 badminton players and two coaches to Thailand for a short training course in an attempt to find new talent.

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) plans a 25 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to 13.3 trillion VND (583.6 million USD) this year.

President Tran Dai Quang asserted that Vietnam always treasures and prioritises developing its comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia at a meeting with Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko in Moscow on June 28.

The Ministry of Public Security has deployed synchronous measures to curb the increase of crime in the first six months of this year, heard a press conference in Hanoi on June 28.

Vietnam and Russia hold great potential for bilateral cooperation based on time-honoured relations, said Grigory Trofimchuk, head of the expert council of the Eurasian ideas foundation. 

President Tran Dai Quang arrived in Moscow on June 28 afternoon, starting his four-day official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A workshop was held in Hanoi on June 28 to kick off the review and update of Vietnam’s nationally determined contributions (NDCs) which are meant to realise the Paris Agreement on climate change.

The government will offer all possible support to businesses, start-ups and create jobs to workers, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said. 

 Delegates to a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28 raised concern about the lack of highly-skilled IT workforce in the country. 

The Communist Party of Vietnam attaches importance to strengthening relations with the People’s Action Party of Singapore on the basis of ensuring national interests for the sake of peace, friendship, cooperation and development. 

Though the APG submarine cable broke twice in six months, Vietnam Internet Association’s (VIA) secretary general Vu The Binh said that APG has helped improve security and provisioning capability for Vietnam’s internet.

The government has instructed local authorities to evacuate people from landslide-stricken areas to safe places for resettlement. However, with hundreds of thousands of households affected by landslides, it has become a difficult task.

Having been in Vietnam for a long time, foreign online travel agents (OTAs) now dominate the market, but analysts believe there are still opportunities for Vietnamese OTAs.

While the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has said that adding swimming to the official curricula is necessary, parents are protesting the plan, saying that this would burden students.

Senior Economist Dr. Vo Tri Thanh talks about the government’s work on macroeconomic policy during its first year.

The Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) recently opened its first branch in Myanmar, according to Lao Dong newspaper.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has ordered the extension of initial public offering (IPO) and adjustment of value of enterprises for equitising Viet Nam Southern Food Corporation’s (Vinafood 2).