The Lianhe Zaobao daily in Hong Kong, China, on June 30 ran an article highlighting Vietnam’s impressive economic growth of 7.72% in the second quarter.

VOV.VN - Singapore-based United Overseas Bank (UOB) has raised Vietnam’s projected GDP growth this year to 7% thanks to the country’s impressive economic growth recorded in the second quarter of the year.

VOV.VN - Vietnam showed signs of undergoing a socio-economic recovery in the first six months of 2022, with GDP growth hitting 6.42% and international arrivals reaching 601,982, a seven-fold increase compared to the same period last year.

VOV.VN - Though international organisations continuously downgrad their global growth forecasts for this year, many have maintained their projection that Vietnam’s GDP growth would be the highest in Southeast Asia.

A Ho Chi Minh City programme to link banks and businesses has seen around VND93 trillion (US$3.97 billion) disbursed so far this year to help revive the economy which was battered for two years by the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The World Bank has made key recommendations to help Da Nang, a centrally-run city in central Vietnam, address development challenges and consolidate its role as a growth pole in the region.

The economic recovery across the South-East Asian region has been uneven and must now contend with rising external headwinds from outside the region.

VOV.VN - Singapore-based United Overseas Bank (UOB) has maintained Vietnam’s GDP growth forecast at 6.5% and inflation at 3.7% for this year, although it anticipates inflation would rise to 5% ahead in 2023.

Ho Chi Minh City recorded growth of 3.82% in gross regional domestic product (GRDP) in the first half of 2022, according to its Statistics Office.

Vietnam’s credit growth as of June 9 expanded by 17.09% against the same period last year, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu said on June 15.