Weak regional connectivity across land, air and sea has hampered the growth of the southeastern region of Vietnam. Economists believe for the region to develop, it needs to change its mind set and strategy.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is set to be one of the few countries globally to record positive economic growth this year, despite the global collapse in trade, travel, and investment caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to an article recently published by the Asia Times, an English language news media outfit.

Vietnam’s chairing the virtual 37th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits over the last week was an exceptional achievement given the hugely disruptive impact of COVID-19 on the ASEAN calendar this year, Australian Ambassador to ASEAN Will Nankervis has said.

The 27th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting opened on November 20 via video conference with leaders of 21 member economies taking part.

VOV.VN - Numerous regional and international news outlets have cited data released by a range of international economic research organizations and agencies to provide optimistic forecasts about the Vietnamese economy despite complicated developments relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic globally.

Vietnam is projected to be one of the economies posting big gains in the world’s per-capita income rankings during the quarter-century through 2025, according to data analysed by Bloomberg.

VOV.VN - Moody's Analytics, a unit of Moody’s Corporation, has forecast that Vietnam, along with China and Hong Kong (China), will enjoy the fastest economic growth in the world ahead in 2021, therefore seeing the Asia-Pacific region lead the global recovery following the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

VOV.VN - A recent article published by Nikkei Asian Review states that, “Vietnam is shaping up as Southeast Asia's single economic success story in the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) era”.

All fields of the partnership between Vietnam and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, especially economy, trade and investment, have been given due attention by leaders on both sides, Tran Thanh Huan, the outgoing Vietnamese Consul General in Hong Kong, said in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

RCEP is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s biggest free trade pact to date, covering a market of 2.2 billion people with a combined size of US$26.2 trillion or 30% of the world’s GDP.