The Chairman of the People's Committee of the northern province of Bac Giang has has just sent a dispatch asking for assistance to local farmers in selling their farm products on e-commerce platforms, contributing to boosting the development of digital agriculture and rural areas in the locality.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism held a conference on May 31 to discuss the application of the ASEAN Tourism Standards and launch the ASEAN Tourism Awards among businesses in the sector.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) generated over 10 billion kWh of electricity in the first five months of 2023 which equals 42.5% of the yearly target.

The Republic of Korea's conglomerate DB Group announced on May 30 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on business cooperation with Vietnam's T&T Group.

The current trends in economic and trade cooperation between Vietnam and the US guarantee big growth in two-way trade and investment in next 10 years and warrant upgrading the partnership to a strategic level, said Ted Osius, President and CEO of the US - ASEAN Business Council (USABC).

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,714 VND/USD on May 31, unchanged from the previous day.

The Ministry of Transport said that it will push investors and project management boards to quickly finalise procedures to launch construction of 10 projects and complete nine others within the second quarter of this year.

The national steering committee for green growth should work out specific solutions to realise green growth targets based on the country’s socio-economic conditions, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the committee Tran Hong Ha said at the committee’s first meeting on May 30.

Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Vo Van Hoan received the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI) delegation led by FHKI Chairman Sunny Chai on May 30.

More than 30 Vietnamese businesses are showcasing their products at a food exhibition in the Republic of Korea (RoK), which opened on May 30.

As many as 5,400 tonnes of fresh lychees have been exported to China via Lao Cai province’s Kim Thanh II international border gate since the beginning of the harvesting season, according to Pham Van Phuc, deputy head of Customs Office at Lao Cai International Border Gate.

Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will increase the frequency of flights between Hanoi and Singapore from one to two flights a day on all weekdays from June 15 to meet the travel demand between the two countries.

The Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) in Ho Chi Minh City and Cadence Design Systems, a multinational computational software company of the US, on May 30 signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in developing electronic design manpower and promoting the semiconductor industry in Vietnam.

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has announced that it will extend the deadline for issuing its final conclusion on an anti-dumping tax evasion investigation into plywood imported from Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Trade Remedies Authority.

Vietnam had more than 12,000 newly-established enterprises with a total registered capital of 103.7 trillion VND (4.44 billion USD) in May, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Singapore was the biggest foreign investor in Ho Chi Minh City in terms of newly-registered projects and capital contribution for share purchases in the last five months, with 72 new projects worth 121.5 million USD, accounting for 60.8% of the total capital of the new projects.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Quoc Tri has freshly had a working session with his Mozambican counterpart Olegário dos Anjos Banze in Maputo, discussing bilateral farming cooperation projects and prospects for the sides’ teamworks in the time to come.

Amid the slowing down of the global investment flows, experts held that improving both quality and number of foreign investment projects is a heavy task for Vietnam, requiring great efforts from the Vietnamese Government to fulfil the “dual targets”.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has approved an investment increase for the Tuyen Quang- Phu Tho Expressway connecting with the Noi Bai – Lao Cai Expressway project.

A Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) forum for locality-to-locality cooperation and trade promotion took place in Seoul on May 29, attracting more than 100 participants from large Korean investment funds, conglomerates, and small- and medium-sized enterprises.