VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy has secured a gross domestic product (GDP) rate of 2.58% this year despite facing an adverse impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest socio-economic data released by the General Statistics Office (GSO) on December 29.

Automobile sales in Vietnam posted a month-on-month increase of 30% and a year-on-year increase of 6% in November, announced the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA).

Construction of VinES battery manufacturing factory costing VND4 trillion (nearly US$173.7 million) began on December 12 in central Ha Tinh province's Vung Ang Economic Zone with the presence of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

A 50% reduction in registration fees for domestically-assembled cars is forming part of a push to help the auto market grow in the next six months.

The US Department of Commerce has recently announced it will not conduct an anti-tariff circumvention investigation against solar panels made in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia at a request by a group of anonymous businesses called American Solar Manufacturers against Chinese Circumvention (A-SMACC).

The Ministry of Finance has proposed halving the registration fee for locally assembled or manufactured cars from November 15 until mid-May next year.

The Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) has said its members sold 367,037 motorbikes in the third quarter of 2021, a year-on-year drop of 45.84%.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on October 14 allowed localities to vaccinate children aged 12 to 18 against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

VOV.VN - Vietnam Motor Show 2021 (VMS 2021) is likely to be postponed until next year due to the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - By September 2021 Singaporean financiers have injected US$23.5 billion across 690 projects in Vietnam’s processing and manufacturing industry, accounting for nearly 40% of Singapore’s total investment capital in the country, according to the Foreign Investment Agency.