VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has highlighted the important role of the marine economy and national maritime space, saying it is a key priority.

The capital city of Hanoi is envisaged to become the nation’s tourism growth pole in the north under the tourism system planning for 2021-2030 with a vision to 2045 recently announced by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Nearly 200 experts and scientists from universities and research institutes across Vietnam, Japan, and other regional countries gather at an international scientific workshop that opened in the central city of Da Nang on October 24 to strategise Vietnam's ascension to a high-income status by 2045.

According to the updated World Economic Outlook 2025 report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Vietnam's economy is projected to grow by 6.1% next year.

To achieve a high-income status by 2045, Vietnam needs to accelerate productivity growth as the workforce's contribution to growth is expected to decline and later turn negative because of the country’s population ageing, said Andrea Coppola, Lead Country Economist and Programme Leader for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Senegal is considered as a potential market for Vietnamese agricultural products, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

With a high digital economic growth rate of about 20% per year, and the fastest rise in e-commerce in the ASEAN region, Vietnam is moving close to the position of top three biggest countries in the ASEAN region in terms of its digital economy.

Standard Chartered has revised up its forecast for Vietnam’s 2024 GDP growth to 6.8% from the previous 6.0%, reflecting the stronger-than-expected expansion in the third quarter of this year.

VOV.VN - Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Tran Thanh Man and other top legislators of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA)’s member countries attended a meeting of the AIPA Executive Committee in Vientiane on October 18.

Germany international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) recently ran an article on its website spotlighting several factors driving Vietnam’s economic growth.