The Prime Minister on December 22 issued a decision approving an investment policy for the first-stage construction and operation of infrastructure in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park II (VSIP II), located in the Dung Quat Economic Zone, the central province of Quang Ngai.

More than 1,100 natural disasters have taken place across Vietnam this year, heard a conference held by the office of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control in Hanoi on December 22.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assigned major tasks to the diplomatic sector and relevant agencies in economic diplomacy while addressing a plenary session of the ongoing 32nd National Diplomatic Conference on December 21.

The flow of overseas remittances to Ho Chi Minh City is estimated to reach about US$8.92 billion in 2023, up 35% year on year, said Deputy Director of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s Branch in HCM City Nguyen Duc Lenh.

Vietnam and South Africa should further tap their economic cooperation potential to make their economic partnership match the sound bilateral political relations, said Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Hoang Sy Cuong in an interview granted to Vietnam News Agency.

VOV.VN- Website digitalnewsasia.com of Malaysia cited research results on December 20 compiled by consulting firm Oxford Economics, authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales headquartered in the UK, and gave assessment of economic dynamics in Southeast Asia, including a positive assessment of the Vietnamese economy in 2023 and a positive outlook in the medium term.

VOV.VN - Market news site Yahoo!finance recently published an article stating that Vietnam, China, and several Asian nations feature among the 20 countries with the fastest economic growth in the world over the past decade.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 18 held the 21st national conference on foreign affairs, with the aim of promoting the external work in service of local sustainable development.

VinFast, Vietnam’s leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, and Marubeni Corporation, a major Japanese trading and investment conglomerate, on December 18 officially announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities in the secondary use of EV batteries and the potential to establish a circular economy model.

VOV.VN - World Bank (WB) experts have underlined the need to extend the implementation of the economic support programme next year in order to allow its planned investments to be fully deployed amid the economy facing headwinds, according to the November 2023 edition of the WB’s monthly Vietnam Macro Monitoring.