Cultural industries, still having much room to develop and contribute more to the national economy, are being considered an important resource to be maximised to boost the GDP growth.

Ha Vu Son, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, on July 18 received a delegation of the Korean Energy Agency (KEA) led by its President Lee Sang-hoon who came to seek investment opportunities in the city.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 18 chaired a meeting with heads of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad to discuss the promotion of economic diplomacy to boost the country's economic growth in the second half of 2024 and the following years.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani recently held a working session in Italy to promote economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.

The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) revised Vietnam’s economic growth forecast upward to 6.3% for 2024 in its latest update released on July 16.

Vietnamese electronics businesses participate in the supply chain but with unstable order positions which are low and small in the chain, with too few opportunities.

VOV.VN - The recovery of external and domestic demand, as well as the manufacturing sector, has supported the Vietnamese economy to grow stronger than expected in the first half of 2024.

A working delegation led by Head of the Hai Phong Economic Zone Authority (HEZA) Le Trung Kien on July 15 inspected the progress of the LG Innotek Hai Phong factory project - Phase III in the northern port city's Trang Due Industrial Park.

VOV.VN - Experts discussed the role of advanced technologies and creative design methods in fostering urban and regional sustainability at an international conference titled "Resilience by Technology and Design" in Ho Chi Minh City on July 15.

Banks lent more than VND480 trillion (US$18.88 billion) to economic entities in June, demonstrating the sector’s efforts in concretising the Government’s credit goal of 5-6% to the end of Q2.