Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh said on Friday that despite impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, Vietnam’s agriculture maintained a 2.68% growth last year. In addition to ensuring food security for nearly 100 million people, Vietnam exported 24.3 billion USD agricultural products in the first half of this
On the occasion of Eid al-Adha, Feast of the Sacrifice, one of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam, President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien on Friday sent a congratulatory letter to all Vietnamese Muslim dignitaries and compatriots. The letter said that in the past years, Vietnamese Muslim followers have well implemented
– The Ministry of Finance held a virtual meeting to review financial-budget implementation in the first half of the year and map out activities for the rest of the year. Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai asked the financial sector to enhance public investment disbursement, strongly develop the financial and stock
Nguyen Kim Anh, a young female Vietnamese PhD holder of the Institute of Geography under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, has won “The most downloaded paper award 2021” award from The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (PEPS), a journal of the Japan Geoscience Union. Kim Anh is
Vietnam will emerge in 2022 as the third largest startup ecosystem in Southeast Asia, with stronger signs of venture capital (VC) funds putting more efforts into early-stage investments in the country, according to a new report by venture capital (VC) firm Golden Gate Ventures. More start-ups in Southeast Asia
The Eiffel Tower reopened to visitors on Friday for the first time in nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the longest closure since World War II. Daily capacity is set to be restricted to 13,000 people, but about half of the normal level, in order to respect
Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc paid a working visit to Utah State of the US earlier this week. He met with the leaders of the Utah State administration, businesses, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young University, and Vietnamese students there. The leaders of the Utah State
