The 10th session of ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) took place in the form of a video conference on December 9. The session was held by the Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) and ASEAN Secretariat.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the 9th Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) Summit which took place in the form of an online conference on December 9. The ACMECS is a cooperation framework among Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam to utilize member countries’ diverse strengths and to promote balanced development in the subregion.
The Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS), also known as the Economic Cooperation Strategy (ECS), is an economic cooperation framework that brings together Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
The CLMV cooperation mechanism covers trade-investment, agriculture, industry-energy, transport, tourism and human resources development.
The preparatory meeting of the 10th National Patriotic Emulation Congress convened in Hanoi on December 9, with the participation of 2,020 delegates across the country.
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a Politburo meeting in Hanoi on December 12 to fine-tune the draft documents to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress.
Located to the far north of Vietnam, Ha Giang province is well-known for its diverse natural beauties such as Dong Van Plateau, Ma Pi Leng pass, rice terraces and endless tam giac mach (buckwheat) flower fields.
Vietnam’s textile and garment exports is set to fall 15 percent to 34 billion USD this year, the first drop in 25 years, over Covid-19 impacts. With the Covid-19 situation remains serious in the U.S. and some European countries, exports to these markets will continue to face difficulties due to a shortage of orders, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said in a recent report.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Secretary of the Central Military Commission, attended the 2020 national military-political conference in Hanoi on December 7.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the 76th national public security conference in Ho Chi Minh City on December 7.
Vietnam’s southern regions have been praised as being among the world’s top 21 best places to visit in 2021, according to New York-based travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler.
Forestry exports is estimated to exceed 12.6 billion USD in 2020, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Second National Congress of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities officially opened in Hanoi on December 4. National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, permanent member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong, incumbent and former Party and State senior officials attended the congress’s opening ceremony.
Bac Giang province has worked with the Plant Protection Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and exporting enterprises to prepare documents, conduct surveys, and issue codes for a planting area of 50 hectares of “thieu” litchi, for export to Japan.
Vietnam’s seafood exports in November increased 13% against the same period in 2019, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) launched a special website on December 3 that provides information on the 13th National Party Congress in different forms and languages.
Vietnam had attracted a total of 26.43 billion USD in FDI this year as of November 20, equal to 83.1 percent of the figure in the same period last year, according to a recent report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
The Vietnam – Cuba special ties is considered a role model international relations.
Public investment growth rate in November and the first 11 months of 2020 broke record in 2011-2020 period.
On December 2, 1960, Cuba became the first country in the Western hemisphere that had established diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Ever since, the two countries have shared special traditional relations.