The recovering European economy together with higher demand is providing Vietnamese enterprises with opportunities to promote exports and optimise advantages from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), and speeding up the recovery of production and business activities.

The complicated pandemic developments, plus the inconsistency in anti-pandemic policies in localities, have made travel firms feel as if they are walking a tightrope.

Total state budget collection in the first ten months of 2021 fulfilled about 90.9% of the estimate and was up 5.5% year-on-year, showed data released by the Ministry of Finance’s Department of State Budget.

VOV.VN - Over 85.7% of surveyed firms in Ho Chi Minh City have been adversely impacted by COVID-19 in the third quarter of the year, according to details given by the municipal Centre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information (FALMI).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) signed an agreement in Hanoi on October 22 on the Swiss Government’s commitment of non-refundable aid worth CHF5 million for a project on improving Vietnam’s trade and export promotion policy.

The Ministry of Transport has recently issued a document asking People’s Committees of cities and provinces to coordinate in instructing the implementation of temporary guidelines on transport activities so as to ensure safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Long Bien wholesale market in the capital resumed services from 00:00 a.m. on October 21 following more than two months of hiatus as part of efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) on October 17 handed over remains of US servicemen missing in action during the war in Vietnam to the US.

VOV.VN - Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien hosted a reception in Hanoi on October 11 for Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo.

VOV.VN - The fourth session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee is set to open on October 11 in Hanoi, giving opinions on many important issues, including the national land use planning for 2021-2030, a vision to 2050 and a five-year land use plan for 2021-2025.