Total revenue from retail trade and services in Vietnam reached an estimated 402.2 trillion VND (17.26 billion USD) in January, up 4.4 percent month-on-month and 12.2 percent year-on-year, the latest report from the General Statistics Office (GSO) showed.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 31 approved the general planning for Thanh Hoa city and Thanh Hoa province’s urban master planning up to 2040.

Holiday spirit seems to be in short supply at the Ministry of Transport (MoT), as the body has rejected a proposal to waive road tolls for the first three days of the Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays.

There’s a Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) atmosphere in the air in Hanoi at the moment with shops crowded with customers and loads of peach blossoms and kumquat trees on the streets.

Transport units at coach stations and airports as well as train stations in Ho Chi Minh City are busy meeting passenger demand for travel before and after the Tet (Lunar New year) holiday.

Vietnam will host the 12th Intergovernmental Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia (EST 12) this year, said the Ministry of Transport.

The share of job seekers who are using formal channels (employment services) is growing in Vietnam, but still accounts for a minority of the job search channels used. 

The Republic of Korea (RoK) was the largest export market for Vietnamese squid and octopus last year, accounting for 40 percent of the total value, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Vietnam’s industrial production index (IIP) in January expanded 7.9 percent year-on-year, much lower than the growth rate of 22.1 percent the same time last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Delivery services, especially items for Tet (Lunar New Year), are working hard to meet the surge in demand in the run-up to the year’s biggest holiday in HCM City.