Vietnam’s real estate market recommenced its record run, with the industrial sector viewed as the star of the industry thanks to the country's success in combating COVID-19, said a story by Philip Heller published on Forbes earlier this week.

VOV.VN - The COVID-19 outbreaks in Ho Chi Minh City and many southern provinces are destroying the "health" of local businesses and hindering economic recovery, meaning the economic growth target of 6.5% set by the Government has never been as difficult and challenging as it is now.

VOV.VN - Deputies to the National Assembly approved a resolution at their ongoing first session in Hanoi on July 27 that sets major socio-economic targets for 2021-2025.

Dr. Ruvislei González Sáez, head of the Asian team at the Cuban Center for International Policy Research, has affirmed theoretical and practical values in Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong’s article “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path toward socialism in Vietnam.

A strategy for developing domestic trade between 2021 and 2030 has been signed off by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, aiming to raise domestic trade’s proportion in the country’s GDP to 15% - 15.5% in the next 10 years.

Indian scholar Prof. G. Jayachandra Reddy highly spoke of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s writing on Vietnam’s socialism and path towards socialism, calling it an “inspiring piece of article at the appropriate time.”

VOV.VN - Amid a global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, senior leaders, particularly the Prime Minister, alongside various ministries, and sectors have found many ways to access and purchase vaccines for citizens.

VOV.VN - The UK-based bank, Standard Chartered, has lowered its annual growth forecast for the nation from 6.7% to 6.5%.

VOV.VN - The Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) has revised two scenarios for the Vietnamese economy by the end of the year, with the GDP rate forecast to expand by 5.9% and 6.2%, respectively.

Oversea remittances to Ho Chi Minh City were worth US$3.2 billion in the first six months of this year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic roiling on many economies around the world.