VOV.VN - Vietnam and the UK have shared strategic orientations, national programmes, and projects relating to developing the their respective digital economies and digital societies, initiatives, and support policies aimed at promoting a general digital transformation.

VOV.VN - Standard Chartered will invest US$8 billion in Vietnam’s sustainable development in order to promote its green and sustainable growth, the bank’s chairman Jose Vinals told Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting in the United Kingdom on November 1.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy is anticipated to record positive growth as it moves into the new normal state, with the number of newly-registered enterprises rising significantly in October and industrial parks in major COVID-19 hotspots in the south resuming their operations.

Digital technology, if exploited to the maximum, can bring over VND1.733 quadrillion (US$74 billion) to Vietnam by 2030, with the most beneficial sectors including manufacturing, agriculture and food, and education-training.

The Vietnam Administration of Sea and Islands (VASI) at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the World Bank have jointly held a virtual consultation workshop on the building of a Blue Economy partnership group.

Vietnam was named among the world’s top 20 host economies for foreign direct investment for the first time in 2020 with an inflow of US$16 billion.

VOV.VN - The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Country Strategic Dialogue on Vietnam, which was held in both online and offline formats on October 29, proved to be a success, according to Borge Brende, president of the WEF.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dang Hoang An and Danish Ambassador to Vietnam Kim Højlund Christensen signed a new agreement on October 28 to kick start the Danish Energy Partnership Programme between Denmark and Vietnam 2021-2025 (DEPP III).

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 27 evening phoned Chilean President Sebastian Piñera to discuss about the Vietnam - Chile relations, as well as bilateral cooperation in climate change response and the COVID-19 fight.

VOV.VN - Five Vietnamese representatives have made it into the Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings 2022.