Reopening the economy is being considered an inevitable path to create an opportunity to reverse gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the fourth quarter and improve that of the whole year 2021.

Despite impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam still rose 4.4 percent year on year in the first nine months of 2021 to 22.15 billion USD.

Vietnam has shown its attractiveness as a sustainable and long-term investment destination thanks to the country's numerous advantages, according to CEO of Nestle Vietnam Binu Jacob.

More and more startups nowadays are committed themselves to finding innovative solutions to environmental problems. Rens Original, a sustainable fashion startup co-founded by Jesse Khanh Tran and Son Chu, two Vietnamese young men studying and living in Finland, is one of them.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent a letter to businesspersons nationwide, congratulating them on the occasion of the Vietnam Entrepreneurs’ Day (October 13).

Representatives of trade promotion agencies and business communities of India and three countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), namely Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, gathered at an online India-Mekong trade connection programme on October 11.

Automaker VinFast, a subsidiary of conglomerate Vingroup, sold 3,497 vehicles in September, posting a month-on-month surge of 51.4 percent despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many businesses suggested more detailed policies should be issued to help them access bank loans as there remain difficulties in lending.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,174 VND/USD on October 12, up 4 VND from the previous day.

Sixty-seven years ago, the capital city of Hanoi was liberated from the French colonial rule on October 10. So this month has a special meaning to the Hanoians and is always a time for the city to look back at what it has done in the past and embrace the future.

Over 16.91 billion USD has been raised from sales of corporate bonds in the first nine months of this year, according the Vietnam Bond Market Association (VBMA).

Vietnam’s exports to Indonesia earned the country 2.51 billion USD in the first eight months of 2021, a surge of 44.2 percent year on year despite complicated developments of COVID-19.

Sales of cement products reached about 77.47 million tonnes in the first nine months of this year, up 3.5 percent year on year despite difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Construction's Department of Construction Materials.

Retail petrol prices increased by nearly 1,000 VND per litre from 3pm on October 11 following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

The Vietnamese economy is likely to gradually recover from the fourth quarter of 2021 and escape the minus growth seen in the third quarter thanks to the activeness of the business community and the Government’s efforts to remove obstacles facing enterprises, held economist Nguyen Bich Lam who is former Director General of the General Statistics Office.

The Bamboo Airways Joint Stock Company has raised its charter capital to 18.5 trillion VND (814 million USD) from 16 trillion VND, according to the National Business Registration Portal.

Following its domestic operation resumption, Vietjet has added seven more routes to its flight network, which now includes 14 services from Ho Chi Minh City to Hai Phong, Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Vinh, Thanh Hoa, Chu Lai, Hue, Dong Hoi, Tuy Hoa, Phu Quoc, Nha Trang and Pleiku and from Hanoi to Da Nang and Can Tho.

The northern province of Thai Binh has paid heed to improving its investment and business climate as it has defined foreign direct investment (FDI) as an important solution to promote socio-economic development.

Leading technology company FPT Corporation reported a 20.9 percent year-on-year increase in pre-tax profits to 2,936 billion VND (127.7 million USD) in the first half of this year on a turnover of 16,228 billion VND (705.6 million USD), up 19.2 percent.

While a number of foreign companies have moved part of their production or orders to other countries, many still see Vietnam as a good location for investment in the long term.