The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,800 VND/USD on June 30, up 17 VND from the previous day.

Dairy company Vinamilk, Bosch Vietnam – a supplier of technology and services and tech giant FPT are among winners of the 2023 Top 50 Corporate Sustainability Awards (CSA 2023).

Ho Chi Minh City attracted 2.9 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) from the beginning of this year to June 20, an increase of 30.7% compared the same period last year, the city’s Statistics Office has announced.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew about 3.72% year on year in the first half of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) edged up 0.17% in June with eight out of 11 groups and services recording an increase in prices, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

Consumer price index (CPI) in the first six months of this year increased 3.29% year on year, while core inflation was estimated to rise 4.74%, said Nguyen Thi Huong, General Director of the General Statistics Office (GSO), at a press conference on June 29.

Many flights to and from Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City were either rescheduled or diverted to land at alternate airports due on June 28 to bad weather.

The banking sector should take more drastic measures to restructure credit institutions in association with the settlement of bad debts to contribute to curbing inflation and stabilising macro-economic factors, according to insiders.

The flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam are forecast to increase in the second half of the year as the downturn has been improved in recent months, experts have said.

State budget collection of the northern province of Quang Ninh in the first half of 2023 reached 28 trillion VND (over 1.18 billion USD), equivalent to 53% of the estimate, and up 6% compared to the scenario.

A forum discussing measures to promote agriculture development and attract investment in sustainable agriculture took place in Tan An city of the Mekong Delta province of Long An on June 28.

The 7th Singapore Regional Business Forum (SRBF) will take place in Hanoi on July 7 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Singapore diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversarys of their strategic partnership.

The Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs held a hybrid conference on June 28 highlighting the role of OV communities in the “Vietnamese people prioritise Vietnamese goods” campaign.

The disbursement of public investment funded by official development assistance (ODA) in localities in the first six months of this year has reached only 7.6% of the year’s target, according to the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

As one of the three telecom and mobile service providers in Mozambique, Movitel - a joint venture between Vietnam's Viettel Group and Mozambique's SPI company - has made significant contributions to the socio-economic development of the host country, becoming a bright spot in the cooperative relationship between the two nations.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,783 VND/USD on June 29, up 23 VND from the previous day.

A workshop to promote investment and development cooperation between the northern province of Thai Binh and Germany was jointly held by the provincial People’s Committee and the Delegation of German Industry and Industry (AHK) in Vietnam on June 28.

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien held talks with Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao on June 28, as part of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s official visit to China and attendance at the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from June 25-28.

The International Exhibition of Energy and Environment Technology Hanoi 2023 (Entech Hanoi 2023) officially opened on June 28 in Hanoi with the participation of 175 domestic and foreign businesses.

More than 3.22 trillion VND (136.65 million USD) of public investment capital from foreign sources was disbursed in the first six months of this year, completing 27.2% of the target set for the whole year, according to Truong Hung Long, Director of the Department of Debt Management and External Finance under the Ministry of Finance (MoF).