The Outstanding Vietnamese Young Faces Award, an annual national event to honour young people at home and abroad who have excelled in various disciplines, announced its 10 winners of 2018 at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 19 evening.
Motorcycle sales in 2018 broke the record set seven years ago (3.3 million) with nearly 3.4 million vehicles sold in the domestic market during the year.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of External Relations convened a conference on December 24 to review its performance in 2018 and chalk out tasks for the next year.
The World Bank (WB) predicts Vietnam’s GDP growth this year at 6.8 percent in its East Asia Pacific Economic Update released on October 4, compared to the 6.5-percent projection last April.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his high-ranking Vietnamese delegation arrived at Ferenc Lizt International Airport in Budapest on the afternoon of September 8, starting their official visit to Hungary at the invitation of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
As many as 64,531 new enterprises have been set up in the first half of 2018 with a total registered capital of 649 trillion VND (28.6 billion USD), up 5.3 percent and 8.9 percent from the same period last year, respectively.
The construction of Hoang Cau-Voi Phuc Road, which is to be “the most expensive road on the planet,” will be kicked off in the fourth quarter of this year.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently forecast Vietnam’s economy to grow at 6.6% this year and 6.5% the following year in a report “World Economic Outlook, April 2018”.
Leaders of the nations in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) delivered their commitments to stronger subregional cooperation at the plenary session of the sixth GMS Summit in Hanoi on March 31.
More than 1,500 people have been killed in traffic accidents in the first two months of 2018 in Vietnam, according to the National Committee for Traffic Safety.
Vietnam has made efforts to nurture the start-up ecosystem since the government defined 2016 as the “start-up nation year”, 2018 is considered pivotal in encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship.
The cultivation sector aims to earn export revenue of more than $21 billion this year, a year-on-year increase of 2.2-2.3 per cent, the Vietnam News Agency reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as saying.
New Year 2018 had a better beginning than the same period in 2017, regarding some indicators, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said at the Government meeting for January.
Vietnam expects to have a sex rate at birth of 112.8 boys per 100 girls and an average population of 94.7 million in 2018, heard a conference held by the General Office for Population - Family Planning in Hanoi on January 30.
PSNews – The Hoa Binh Provincial Police organized a conference on January 26 to review its task performance in 2017, deploy its new working plan for 2018.
PSNews – The Department of Legislation and Administrative, Judicial Reforms under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) organized a conference on January 26 to review its performance in 2017 and deploy a working plan for 2018.
