VOV.VN - With the COVID-19 pandemic causing plenty of difficulties for production and business activities and the added value of the industrial sector in Q1 set to endure a slight fall, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is striving to help the sector achieve a growth rate of 9.45% and export growth of up to 5%.

Vietnamese enterprises, especially small and medium-sized ones, should embrace digital transformation to survive but also improve their production and trading processes and business efficiency in the industry 4.0 era, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent seminar heard in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Tourism growth in a number of central localities, such as Da Nang city, Khanh Hoa, Quang Nam, and Quang Ngai is enduring a slowdown due to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, thereby causing lasting damage which will could linger for many years.

Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City still rose by 12% year-on-year to US$6.1 billion in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the State Bank of Vietnam’s Branch in HCM City.

VOV.VN - Activist Merle Ratner of the US and Prof. Ngo Thanh Nhan, joint co-ordinators of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign which fights for aid for Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the US, have stated that the 13th National Party Congress marks a turning point which will help Vietnam move into a new period of socialism.

VOV.VN - The High Command of the Border Guard under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam, and the Army Command of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces on February 3 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on border defence co-operation.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela, in its role as Chair of the ASEAN Committee in Caracas (ACC), hosted a ceremony to hand over the post to Indonesian Ambassador Imam Edy Muluono amid the presence of Malaysian representatives and officials from the embassies of other ASEAN member states.

The real estate inventories of listed companies increased significantly in the fourth quarter of 2020 over a year ago because many projects were stagnant due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, legal bottlenecks and limited financial capacity of the developers.

Cambodia’s Khmer Times newspaper published an article on February 1 saying that, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Vietnam is viewed as an economic success story and its growth has been among the highest worldwide over the last decade.

Cabinet members will continue to fulfil their tasks with high responsibility following the 13th National Party Congress, said Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung at a Government press briefing for January on February 2.