For Vietnam to realise its aspiration for reaching high income status by 2045, the country will need to shift its economic growth model and sharply improve the government’s capacity to coordinate and implement economic policy reforms and public investments, a World Bank Group report says.

The Politburo recently issued Resolution No. 13/NQ-TW on orientations for socio-economic development and defence - security safeguarding in the Mekong Delta until 2030, with a vision to 2045, aiming to make development breakthroughs across the region.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee’s 11th session continued on May 11, discussing reports that assess the implementation of socio-economic development and State budget works in 2021 and in early months of 2022.

The French Embassy in Vietnam on May 9 held a press conference launching a project named “Share and protect Vietnam’s heritage”.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has approved reforms to the tax system.

A project debuted on May 5 to support Vietnamese agencies in producing and utilising quality population data for the formulation and implementation of socio-economic development policies, strategies, and programmes.

The Trung Luong-My Thuan Highway, an important route in the Mekong Delta, was inaugurated on April 27.

A new Vietnamese association has opened Kumamoto prefecture, becoming a common house of the Vietnamese community while helping strengthen their solidarity and mutual support.

VOV.VN - By the end of the first quarter, the steel industry had imported up to three million tonnes, worth US$3.1 billion, with a trade deficit of US$800 million, while exports brought in US$2.3 billion, according to the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA).

A National Assembly (NA) delegation visited central Ninh Thuan province on April 13 to examine the five-year implementation of the NA resolution on cancelling a nuclear power project here.