For the time ahead, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will keep a proactive and flexible monetary policy basing on market developments and forecasts for the macro-economy, SBV Deputy Governor Dao Minh Tu told a meeting on April 22.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese Government delegation led by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh left Hanoi capital on April 23 for Jakarta, Indonesia, to attend a Leaders’ Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

VOV.VN - The consumer finance market in the year ahead is predicted to struggle making any significant breakthroughs, despite lending interest rates witnessing a downward trend, according to experts.

Lotteria, a subsidiary of the Republic of Korea’s Lotte Group, will expand its investment in Vietnam through opening more 28 fast-food stores and building a new food material factory in Long Hau Industrial Park in the southern province of Long An.

The surge in prices of steel since the beginning of 2021 helped many steel producers record good performance in the first quarter.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national futsal team are set to join the likes of Thailand, Iraq, and Lebanon in competing in a play-off round as the four teams battle it out to make it to the finals of the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2021.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Singapore have agreed to accelerate negotiations on a priority travel mechanism towards resuming safe commercial flights between the two countries in order to boost their economic, trade, investment and tourism cooperation.

VOV.VN - The United States continued to represent the largest buyer of local goods during the first quarter of the year, with total export turnover raking in US$21.2 billion, representing a year-on-year rise of 32.8%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

VOV.VN - During the first quarter of the year the nation had a total of 39 planes which underwent maintenance, while their flight operations were suspended due to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to data released by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

VOV.VN- Maintaining and developing the time-honoured friendship and the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China is always one of the top priorities in Vietnam’s external policy.