Vietnam remains the biggest sugar importer, third largest trading partner and the third biggest foreign investor of Laos, after Thailand and China, Vientiane Times reported on October 11.

VOV.VN - Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has expressed his wish that Vietnam and Indonesia will work towards mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates to facilitate travel by Vietnamese and Indonesian citizens when conditions permit.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is scheduled to receive foreign visitors with a vaccine passport on a trial basis in November, before fully reopening to the international tourism market by June 2022.

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has recently issued a plan to support foreigners who fall into difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the city.

VOV.VN - The People’s Committee of the southern province of Khanh Hoa said on October 5 that it has submitted a detailed pilot scheme aimed at welcoming foreign visitors with a vaccine passports to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for approval.

Despite serious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign investments in Vietnam in the first nine months of 2021 rose, showing investors' trust and optimism about the country’s socio-economic recovery and development in the coming time, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Bich Ngoc has said.

VOV.VN - ASEAN Foreign Ministers met virtually on October 4 to review the ASEAN Community building process, the bloc’s cooperation with its dialogue partners, the East Sea issue, and a number of issues of mutual concern.

The shortage of high-quality workforce is a “bottleneck” faced by domestic support industry enterprises, said economists.

Capital flows into green growth projects have still seen positive signals despite adverse impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam.

Competent authorities have handled violations relating to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) with fines amounting to hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong.