VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue presided over a meeting on Hanoi on February 21 examining the bill on national defense industry, security, and industrial mobilization, with many outstanding policies to be introduced to develop the industry.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha underlined the need to manage the pharmaceutical industry under market rules, ensuring publicity, transparency, quality control, safety, and cheapest prices during a meeting in Hanoi on February 19 to discuss the law on amendments and supplementations to some articles of the Law on Pharmacy.

VOV.VN - Vietnam will implement a national strategy on semiconductor industry development in 2024 to make it a key national industry in the coming decades, said Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung.

Vietnamese enterprises and authorities are taking action right from the start of 2024 to promote industrial production though many challenges remain in the global economy.

VOV.VN - The much-awaited dream of producing Made-in-Vietnam chips that has been neglected for several years, is now being awoken as the world is hunting for chips, while mastering the design stages are an important step for the country to penetrate more deeply into the global semiconductor industry.

VOV.VN - The semiconductor industry is expected to open up opportunities for Vietnamese businesses to step into the most modern and fundamental playground in the digital transformation process.

The index of industrial production (IIP) in January fell 4.4% month on month but still went up 18.3% year on year, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The cross-border B2C E-commerce (consumer-facing segment of e-commerce) is set to grow strongly in 2027 and become the fifth largest export industry in Vietnam in the next five years, according to Amazon Global Selling.

VOV.VN - The lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam by President Bill Clinton 30 years ago paved the way for all the terrific advances made in the US-Vietnam trade and economic relations, said US ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper.

President Vo Van Thuong visited the Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) in Hanoi on February 1, asking it to sustain its role as leading enterprise of the country and a State-owned business model.