Ho Chi Minh City and the Chinese localities on the banks of the Yellow River boast much room for economic, trade, and investment cooperation thanks to cultural similarities and complementary goods strutures, heard a conference held in the Vietnamese city on March 11.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan attended the 30th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Retreat in Luang Prabang, Laos, on March 8-9, during which he expressed Vietnam’s support for Laos' priority economic cooperation initiatives in its ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2024.

An estimated VND399.4 trillion (nearly US$16.18 billion) was collected for the state budget in the first two months of 2024, equivalent to 23.5% of the year’s target and up 10.4% from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance reported on March 6.

Vietnam – a populous country with rapid economic growth and sound engagement in the global supply chain - has attracted interest from South American enterprises, according to Dr. Ignacio Bartesaghi, Director of the International Business Institute of the Catholic University of Uruguay.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Cambodia will enhance economic connectivity, especially transport connectivity, between the two countries, creating the prerequisite to increase bilateral cooperation in other fields.

VOV.VN -Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son held a meeting on March 5 with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong within the framework of the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Australia dialogue relations.

With noteworthy signs of recovery in the first two months of this year, the national economy is expected to bounce back quickly this year.

Vietnam is the most investment worthy place in ASEAN, based on valid and practical grounds where improved economic diversification, international integration, reformed investment legislation and good economic policy must be counted, according to an article recently published on the US’s mondaq.com.

The revised Land Law, recently adopted by the 15th-tenure National Assembly, which includes people of Vietnamese origin among land users and increases interests for foreign-invested economic entities, is expected to have positive impacts on the real estate market and the economy at large.

Consolidating traditional growth engines while optimising new ones is among the key tasks set out by Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son at a conference on the 2024 economic diplomacy in Hanoi on February 22.