Standard Chartered announced on June 1 its forecast that Vietnam’s GDP growth would be 6.7% this year and 7.3% in 2022.

VOV.VN - Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long suggested on June 1 that Ho Chi Minh City, the nation’s most populous and busiest locality, should make preparations for a range of scenarios, including the worst-case one, amid the number of COVID-19 cases set to increase over the coming days.

Hanoi leads the country in the number of people installing the Bluezone contact-tracing app with 3.1 million downloads, followed by Ho Chi Minh City with 2.8 million.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, while addressing the 2021 P4G Seoul Summit on May 31, proposed major solutions for striking a balance between the urgent need for economic recovery and the requirement for greener and more sustainable development in the post-COVID era.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked authorities and relevant forces to work hard to prevent COVID-19 in lockdown areas in the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang from spreading to safe areas or adjacent localities.

VOV.VN - Alongside India, Vietnam continues to be considered as the most interesting potential market in the Asia-Pacific region by German businesses.

Launched in the beginning of 2021 by five Vietnamese woman, Tiem Mot bookstores (worm store) open in different countries, with the aim of bringing Vietnamese books to where there are Vietnamese people and who needs local books as well as preserving the mother language and culture of the fatherland.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 30 cabled a letter to US President Joe Biden, expecting the US will continue to help Vietnam and other countries get access to COVID-19 vaccine supplies.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) for the first five months of the year has increased 1.29% compared to the same period last year, a record low figure since 2016, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 29 asked relevant ministries, agencies, and localities to make every effort and pool all resources together in order to keep the country’s latest COVID-19 outbreak in check.