VOV.VN - There are roughly 650,000 Vietnamese labourers working in 40 countries and territories around the world, according to estimated data from the Department of Overseas Labor Management under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has helped accelerate the recovery of Vietnam’s exports to the EU, especially in the first two years since it came into effect in 2020, yet the impact is somewhat less positive in the third year, according to a report released by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) on October 27.

The 27th Congress of the ASEAN Federation of Cardiology (AFCC2023) will take place in Hanoi from November 2 to 5.

Hanoi hopes for the World Bank's continued support to and collaboration with Hanoi in the implementation of projects across various fields, including wastewater management and the establishment of ten urban railway routes.

The bad debt ratio of the banking system skyrocketed from 2% at the beginning of this year to 3.56%, or more than VND440 trillion, at the end of July 2023, according to the latest data from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s Immigration Department and Cambodian Home Affairs Ministry’s General Department of Immigration held a meeting to discuss and exchange experience on immigration management in Hanoi on October 23.

To ensure the supply of goods and stabilisation of the domestic market by the end of 2023 and Lunar New Year 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will coordinate with large distributors to regulate the supply of goods and support the consumption of agricultural products, according to Le Viet Nga, MoIT’s deputy director of the Domestic Market Department.

The Vietnam Agency of Seas and Islands (VASI) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the National Ocean Policy Secretariat at the Cabinet Office of Japan held their first-ever direct dialogue in Hanoi on October 16.

VOV.VN - The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) and ASEAN Day on Disaster Management (ADDM) was celebrated on October 13 at Bai Chay Primary and Secondary School in Ha Long city in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

VOV.VN - The 11th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Management (AMMDM) opened in Ha Long city, Vietnam, on October 12, to sketch out disaster management plans towards materializing the 2016 Declaration on One ASEAN, One Response to disasters.