Speaking at the East Asia Summit (EAS) on the evening of October 27, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh mentioned the security issue of the South China Sea (Vietnam calls it the East Sea), saying that maintaining peace and stability…
The Vietnam Aviation Business Association warned that if Vietnam does not completely abolish the requirement of a seven-day concentrated quarantine for foreign travelers, it will be difficult to restore the number of international visitors as before the COVID-19 pandemic. Inside…
The Vietnamese government plans to reduce rice-growing land by nearly 350,000 hectares by 2030, the state-controlled media reported on October 29. Specifically, when submitting this plan to the National Assembly, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said…
On October 1, 2021, when more than a million workers simultaneously left Saigon and surrounding industrial zones to return to their hometowns, one could see that the government was not prepared for that situation. Hastily issued orders are sometimes contradictory,…
In a phone call on October 26, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recommended that the Vietnamese government commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 and continue to take steps to phase out coal electricity as well as…
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance said on November 2 that it is expected that Vietnam’s public debt in 2022 will be at 43-44% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The state-controlled media quoted the Ministry of Finance’s estimate with figures including…
Many factories and workshops in industrial zones in southern Vietnam are facing a paradox: reopening production but lack of human resources. Without consistent and smooth epidemic prevention measures from the central to local levels to facilitate the resumption of production…
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has had a busy first day of his trip to Glasgow, Scotland to attend the summit against climate change, COP26. With the first day mainly devoted to ceremonies, on October 31, the Vietnamese leader attended…
Closer defense ties between Japan and Vietnam could have an impact on regional security but not to the extent of provoking China, two experts told BBC News Vietnamese. The helicopter carrier JS Kaga and the destroyer JS Murasame of the…
Vietnam has attracted a lot of attention at the conference on climate change (COP26) when Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made a commitment to achieve “zero” net emissions by 2050, joining the pledge to reduce methane emissions worldwide and the…
