VOV.VN - The Vietnam Briefing of Dezan Shira & Associates group published an article on December 31 stating that foreign investors continue to be confident about the local economy’s growth prospects ahead in 2022, despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The public investment disbursed in 2021 has reached 77.3% of the target set by the Prime Minister, lower than the rate of 82.66% recorded last year, according to the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy is set to expand by 6.8% in 2022, Singapore-based United Overseas Bank (UOB) has forecast.

VOV.VN - Eight Vietnamese commodities raked in roughly US$235 billion from export in 2021, making up two thirds of the country’s total export turnover for the year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The total new, adjusted capital and share purchases by foreign investors reached US$31.15 billion as of December 20, representing a year-on-year rise of 9.2%.

The Government has issued Decree No. 121/2021/ND-CP on business in prize-winning electronic games for foreigners in Vietnam.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu and Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith co-chaired the 31st annual Vietnam-Laos border meeting held in Hanoi on December 29.

With its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development as well as diversification and multilateralisation of external relations, Vietnam has affirmed its rising role and position in the region and the world.

VOV.VN - The latest regulations on shortening the quarantine period for entrants is expected to facilitate air travel and attract greater foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Vietnam in the future, according to insiders.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese nationals abroad have sent home some US$12.5 billion this year, a year-on-year increase of 10%, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).