Vietnam expects good results in foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction in 2022 and following years, with good signals seen right from the beginning of this year, reported the Dau tu (Investment) newspaper.

Shinhan Life Insurance of the Republic of Korea on January 25 launched operations in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The Nguyen Hue flower street in Ho Chi Minh City is set to open to visitors during the upcoming Lunar New Year festival, with an array of decorations detailing the challenging period faced by the southern city and its recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi Department of Health has unveiled that the capital has so far recorded 14 cases of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic, including one case in the community.

VOV.VN - National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines officially operated its first regular commercial flights from Paris to Hanoi on January 25 following a nearly two-year hiatus due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Mua doan tu” (Reunion season) - a special TV programme - will be aired by the Vietnam Television on the Lunar New Year Eve which will come on the night of January 31.

VOV.VN - New German vaccine donations totaling 4,000,230 doses of BioNTech/Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Hanoi at the turn of the year, raising the total number of vaccines supplied Germany to Vietnam to over 10 million doses.

The deposit growth rate of individual customers at banks slowed last year due to the impacts of the pandemic.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has set a target of receiving 3.5 million foreign arrivals in 2022 after a bad year for tourism heavily impacted by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected global trade last year, two-way trade between Vietnam and China grew steadily and strongly, according to Nong Duc Lai, Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of Vietnam in China.