The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at 23,636 VND/USD on December 22, down 5 VND from the previous day.

With just a few days to Christmas, decorations are being sold on the streets of Hà Nội, but fewer people seem to be buying this holiday season.

To sustain its position as the world’s largest producer and exporter of black pepper, Việt Nam’s pepper sector needs to focus more on improving product quality, strictly conforming to socio-economic and environmentally sustainable production criteria, and developing more value-added products for export, speakers told a seminar in HCM City on December 21.

More Vietnamese products have been targeted by trade defence mechanisms and barriers as the country entered numerous free trade agreements and integrate further into the global economy, said policymakers and industry experts during an online conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

Lack of capital, information, business management capacity and a sustainable market for their products were among the major challenges faced by social impact businesses (SIBs) in Việt Nam, said policymakers and international experts.

Sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, new materials, and new therapies in cancer treatment were the main topics of a symposium in Hà Nội on December 19.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a 107 million USD financing project with BIM Wind Power Joint Stock Company (BIM Wind) to assist the operation of an 88 MW wind farm in the south central province of Ninh Thuan.

The volume of Vietnam’s pepper exports to important markets has decreased this year, but the country has retained its top spot in the global rankings, heard a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 21.

The Vietnamese aviation market is expected to see 55 million passengers by the end of this year, an increase of 3.7 times compared to the previous year, recovering by nearly 70% compared to 2019, pre-COVID-19 pandemic.

The Australian Government is increasing its support for partners in Southeast Asia to help their transition to net zero, and Vietnam is central to these efforts, David Gottlieb, Australian Acting Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam, told the recent fifth Vietnam Economic Forum.

Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Vietnam Andrew Jeffries has attributed Vietnam’s economic growth in 2022 to a strong performance across sectors.

The retail prices of petrol were reduced further in the latest adjustment on December 21 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

Apple plans to move some MacBook production to Vietnam for the first time next year as the US tech group continues diversifying its production base, Nikkei Asia has reported.

Two free flights for workers from HCM City to Nghệ An and Thanh Hóa are scheduled to fly on January 11, 2023 (December 20 on the Lunar Calendar).

This year, the VinFuture Prize attracted 970 nominations from over 70 countries across six continents.

The herbal medicine industry remains largely untapped despite Việt Nam's many favourable conditions, said industry experts and policymakers.

In particular, the sharp increase in domestic passenger transport has partly offset the slow recovery of international arrivals.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at 23,641 VND/USD on December 21, down 2 VND from the previous day.

The first batch of VF 8 electric vehicles manufactured by VinFast, the first Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) producer, arrived in the US on December 20 as the vessel Silver Queen docked at the Port of Benicia in California.

In recent years, dollarisation and goldenisation have been strictly controlled in the country, which has helped to stabilise the Vietnamese đồng and fight inflation.