VOV.VN - The Australian Government is helping to boost trading ties with the nation through the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Grant Pilot Program (AVEG 2021), with a total of approximately US$2 million being given in support of local businesses.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) has devised two growth scenarios for the second half of 2021, said Deputy Minister Tran Quoc Phuong.

The economic growth target for this year remains unchanged with two scenarios of 6 percent and 6.5 percent expansion for this year, affirmed Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a regular Government meeting held in Hanoi on July 1.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh chaired a webinar on June 30 with the US business community to share visions, initiatives, and solutions to promote the extensive development of ties, as well as support in economic recovery and development following the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Hanoi capital will play host to the ninth ASEAN Competition Conference on December 1-2, the Secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN, has announced.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Lao Party General Secretary and State President Thongloun Sisoulith reached consensus on cooperation orientations between the two countries in the time ahead during their meeting in Hanoi on June 28.

The Asia - Europe cooperation will be indispensable and increasingly important in the future, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu said about the significance of the Asia - Europe Meeting (ASEM) High-level Policy Dialogue held on June 22.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has praised both nations for working hand in hand to soon establish and hold meetings between their working groups on COVID-19 response towards a mutual recognition of each other’s vaccination certificates.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and State President, while receiving Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan in Hanoi o June 21, voiced Vietnam’s commitment to facilitating Singaporean business operations in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam always considers Japan as an extensive, important and long-term strategic partner in its foreign policy, and wants to boost this extensive strategic partnership with Japan, says National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.