Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 30 requested the southern key economic region to strive to become a powerful and prosperous region by 2035, ten years ahead of the deadline for the same goal for the whole Vietnam.

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the retail market in Việt Nam in the first quarter of this year still recorded positive results from e-commerce, online shopping and delivery services.

The Government is focusing on boosting the development of enterprises and encouraging private investment to accelerate post-pandemic economic growth.

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has been put under control in Vietnam, its negative impacts were still felt in many fields, including budget collection in Ho Chi Minh City.

The national target programme on building new-style rural areas in 2016-2020 has completed its set targets, it was said at a conference of the programme’s coordinating offices nationwide held in the central province of Quang Tri on May 29.

Vietnamese agricultural, fishery and food businesses were updated on the Singaporean market at an online conference held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) and the Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore on May 29.

Hanoi attracted 1.56 billion USD in FDI in the first five months of this year, it was reported at a video meeting of the municipal People’s Committee on May 29.

A total of 10,728 new firms were established in May with total registered capital of 112.7 trillion VND (4.83 billion USD), up 36.1 percent in number and 20.1 percent in capital from the previous month, according to the General Office of Statistics (GSO).

A three-day fair of Thanh Ha lychee, a specialty of the northern province of Hai Duong, was opened on May 29 at the Vietnam Agricultural Exhibition Centre in Hanoi.

Vietnam's garment and textile exports in the first four months fell 10 percent year-on-year to 10.63 billion USD and could fall much further as buyers cancelled orders due to COVID-19, according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas).

Products of Vietnamese milk producer Vinamilk (Vietnam Dairy Products JSC) have made their entry into the market in the Republic of Korea (RoK), said a RoK dairy business.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airline has resumed full domestic operations with the number of domestic passenger flights on May 29 up 36 percent year on year to over 300.

The move won 99.53 per cent of shareholders’ votes in its annual shareholders’ meeting on Friday in HCM City.

The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange rose 0.36 per cent to end at 864.47 points.

Pre-tax profit was estimated to reach VND5.1 trillion in May, equal to 50 per cent of the year’s plan

FPT Retail performed well in the first two months of the year, but the coronavirus outbreak in March stalled the business

Vietnam reported a trade surplus of 1.9 billion USD in the first five months of this year amid the ongoing complexity for global markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The agro-forestry-fishery sector recorded a trade surplus of close to 3.3 billion USD in the first five months of 2020, a decline of a mere 2.3 percent year-on-year.

Conglomerate Vingroup JSC plans to earn 145 trillion VND (6.2 billion USD) in revenue this year, up 12 percent year-on-year.

Vietnam attracted a total of 13.9 billion USD in FDI in the first five months of this year, a fall of 17 percent year-on-year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on May 29.