Due to China's strict zero-COVID policy and disrupted supply chains, more and more German companies in Asia are looking for alternatives and neighbouring Vietnam has become a new target, the German weekly business news magazine WirtschaftsWoch wrote in an article published on May 29.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.04 percent in the first five months of 2022 against the same period last year, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

The total import and export value of agro-forestry-aquatic products in the first five months of 2022 has been estimated at 41.3 billion USD, up 8.6 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Vietnam has great potential to increase fruit exports to the US in the future, said Hoang Trung, director of the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Phu Quoc city of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has been providing support for investors to accelerate progress of key projects as part of an effort to boost local socio-economic development.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will continue to coordinate with relevant ministries and sectors in supporting businesses to minimise impacts of trade remedies which may have an detrimental effect on Vietnam’s export activities.

Foreign arrivals to Vietnam jumped 70.6 percent month-on-month in May, following the removal of travel restrictions and over two weeks of SEA Games 31 competitions, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The Việt Nam Fruit and OCOP Product Festival 2022 officially opened in Sơn La Province on Saturday, attended by Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính, to promote One Commune, One Product (OCOP) goods.

Stocks subject to trade under restriction on HOSE can only be traded in the afternoon session of the trading day by centralised matching and put through trading method.

Việt Nam’s tourism has stepped up eight places on the 2021 Tourism and Travel Development Index (TTDI), according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Report.

Enterprises in HCM City exported 20.7 billion USD worth of goods in the first five months of 2022, posting a year-on-year increase of 7.9 percent, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

Full automatic non-stop toll collection (ETC) will officially start on the Hanoi-Hai Phong highway at 9am June 1.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at 23,089 VND/USD on May 30, down 20 VND from the last working day of previous week (May 27).

Việt Nam has great potential to increase fruit exports to the US in the future.

A ground-breaking ceremony for a closed-loop dairy complex was held in Mộc Châu District, Sơn La Province on Saturday.

Long An Province is focusing on sustainable economic development while staying safe from COVID, maintaining its position as an economic leader in the Mekong Delta.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) have jointly launched a national petroleum management database system.

Commercial banks were told to launch a VND40 trillion support package with a 2 per cent yearly rate cut for businesses in a meeting yesterday with the State Bank of Vietnam.

Disbursement of foreign direct investment (FDI) experienced a positive yearly increase of 7.8 per cent to US$7.71 billion in the first five months of this year, as the national economy appears to be back to normal, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. 

The three carriers will provide nearly 6.3 million seats on more than 32,400 domestic flights, up 10 per cent compared to the same period of 2019 before the COVID-19 broke out.