Party General Secretary and State President To Lam hosted receptions for the ambassadors of Thailand, Comoros, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Suriname to Vietnam, who came to present their credentials to the top leader in Hanoi on October 18.

VOV.VN - Italian-flagged passenger cruise ship the Costa Serena docked at Ha Long International Cruise Port in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province on October 18, bringing 3,040 travellers from Hong Kong (China) to Ha Long City.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has been, is, and will continue to consult with both Laos and Cambodia as part of efforts step up extensive, substantive, and effective co-operation between the three countries, in line with development requirements in the new period, for the benefit of their peoples, for the ASEAN Community, for peace, for co-operation, and for greater development in the region.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on October 17 met with the Australian Minister for Trade and Tourism, attended a workshop of the Australia-Vietnam Policy Institute Conference, and visited the University of Adelaide as part of his four-day visit to Australia at the invitation Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) is drafting a circular to better manage foreign investment protocols and hopefully make them speedier.

After cooling down in August 2024 and bottoming out at the end of September, the USD/VND exchange rate has shown signs of increasing again since the beginning of October.

With the development of the high-speed North-South railway project, the focus has turned to training a local workforce to minimise dependence on foreign expertise in express rail operations.

Provinces, ministries and government agencies had allocated VND664.9 trillion (US$26.7 billion) for public investment as of the end of September, showed data from the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s economy expanded by about 7.4% in the third quarter and 6.82% during the first nine months of the year, showing it is on track to meet and even surpass this year’s 6.5-7% growth target.

VOV.VN - Da Nang City, the tourism hub in central Vietnam, welcomed 8.7 million arrivals over the past nine months, marking growth of 33.3% year on year, according to the city's Statistics Office.