The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee on August 2 presented 1.7 million meal portions worth 51 billion VND (2.22 million USD) to southern localities which are under the social distancing measures. The meal portions, each worth 30,000 VND, will be distributed to people of the vulnerable groups in 17

The Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Enterprise Development Agency has teamed up with the Amazon Global Selling Vietnam to launch a programme for firms interested in export via e-commerce. The 90-Day Amazon Launchpad programme is part of the ministry’s Go Digital Go Global aid package for enterprises’ digital transformation during

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,180 VND per USD on August 2, unchanged from the last working day of the previous week (July 30). With the current trading band of +/- 3 percent, the ceiling rate applied to commercial banks during the day

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang pocketed 1.96 billion USD from exports in the first seven months of 2021, up 19.8 percent year-on-year and equal to 60.2 percent of the yearly plan, said Acting Director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade Dang Van Tuan. Foreign-invested enterprises accounted

Hanoi authorities have decided to extend the ongoing social distancing in the capital city until 6am, August 23, according to a dispatch issued on Friday by Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh.  Hanoi’s social distancing order under Directive 16, which began on July 24, requires people to stay

The UK must move beyond its old “baseline alliances” in the West as it becomes the Southeast Asian bloc’s first new partner in 25 years, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab declared on Thursday at a virtual signing ceremony with the 10 nations from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Becoming