The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,588 VND/USD on April 14, down 8 VND from the previous day.

Vietnam International Café Show 2023, a coffee, food and beverage exhibition, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 13, attracting more than 400 domestic and international exhibitors.

Hundreds of experts, investors and representatives from investment funds and start-up support organisations of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) gathered at the festival for innovative startups (TECHFEST) in Seoul on April 13.

The World Bank (WB) on April 13 released a report on Vietnam’s macroeconomic situation in April this year.

The Trade Office at the Vietnamese Embassy in India, in collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board, held an online conference on April 12 on opportunities for business and investment cooperation between Vietnam and the Indian state.

More than 70 executives from 42 technology companies participated in the Australia-Vietnam Tech Forum that opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 12.

The Smart City Asia International Expo and Forum 2023 in Vietnam opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 13, showcasing leading technologies and solutions for public lighting, smart cities and smart homes, urban planning and public administration, and others.

Vietnam must invest to raise its fuel reserve capacity, said economists and policymakers during a conference on April 12 discussing how to encourage investment from the private sector in fuel infrastructure and to stabilise fuel supply and demand.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai on April 13 ordered tightening discipline in the disbursement of public investment capital, stating that it is the responsibility of ministries and agencies’ leaders.

President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Masatsugu Asakawa has called on development banks to make greater changes to the response to the climate crisis that the world has been facing.

A delegation from the southern province of Binh Phuoc led by Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Manh Cuong paid a working trip to Hong Kong from April 11-12 to seek stronger partnership with China’s special administrative region.

Vietnam’s food industry is growing strongly thanks to people’s improved income, increased purchasing power, and the supply of diverse and highly competitive products, an official told a policy dialogue in Hanoi on April 13.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 13 stressed the need to ease difficulties and remove obstacles, especially in terms of market, institutions, and credit capital, for the production, processing and export of forest and aquatic products.

The Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM), themed “Cultural tourism”, opened on April 13 in Hanoi, featuring 450 pavilions from 51 provinces and cities nationwide and 15 foreign countries and territories.

The number of newly-opened securities accounts in March plunged to the lowest in the past two years, marking the sixth consecutive month the market did not record more than 100,000 new accounts, according to the Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD).

After more than three years, a project on placing artificial reefs to protect and enrich fishery resources in combination with tourism development off the southernmost province of Ca Mau has recorded initial encouraging results.

Having hold of a large amount of bad debts mortgaged by real estate, Vietnam’s four biggest State-owned banks are urgently recovering the debts, but the work remains tough for them due to the slowdown of the realty market.

No longer hot on the stock market, yet banking sector remains one of the priorities of foreign investors, with foreign ownership rate in many banks reaching the cap of 30% as regulated.

Dozens of Indonesian and Vietnamese travel agencies met in an exchange on April 12 to create more tourism products for Vietnamese and Indonesian people.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,606 VND/USD on April 13, down 2 VND from the previous day.