Commercial banks have made public the sale of unsecured consumer debt for the first time in the country.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has recently signed a facility agreement to provide up to US$25 million for an onshore wind power generation project with a total capacity of 144 MW in the central province of Quang Tri.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on May 27 signed a US$116-million green loan with local firms to build and operate three 48-megawatt (MW) wind farms, totaling 144 MW, in Quang Tri province.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese diplomat to the United Nations has called on parties concerned in the Israel-Palestine conflict to return to the negotiating table to seek a durable solution in the region.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) has received VND160 billion in donations from various local banks as funding for the purchase of additional novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine doses.

Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City hit US$2 billion during January-April, up 11%t against the same period last year.

The government may want to consider a new fiscal stimulus that would include a more generous assistance package for COVID-19 affected people and businesses, stated the World Bank.

A growing number of banks and fintech firms are forming partnership to implement embedded finance in Vietnam.

Vietnamese abroad sent home US$17.2 billion worth of remittances in 2020, making the country the third-largest remittance recipient in the East Asia and Pacific region, said the Migration and Development Brief released by the WB and the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development.

Vietnam ranks 70th among 190 economies in this year's Doing Business 2020 report released by the World Bank (WB). One year earlier, it ranked 69th, and in 2018, it was 68th.