VOV.VN - The consumer finance market in the year ahead is predicted to struggle making any significant breakthroughs, despite lending interest rates witnessing a downward trend, according to experts.

Lotteria, a subsidiary of the Republic of Korea’s Lotte Group, will expand its investment in Vietnam through opening more 28 fast-food stores and building a new food material factory in Long Hau Industrial Park in the southern province of Long An.

The surge in prices of steel since the beginning of 2021 helped many steel producers record good performance in the first quarter.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national futsal team are set to join the likes of Thailand, Iraq, and Lebanon in competing in a play-off round as the four teams battle it out to make it to the finals of the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2021.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Singapore have agreed to accelerate negotiations on a priority travel mechanism towards resuming safe commercial flights between the two countries in order to boost their economic, trade, investment and tourism cooperation.

VOV.VN - The United States continued to represent the largest buyer of local goods during the first quarter of the year, with total export turnover raking in US$21.2 billion, representing a year-on-year rise of 32.8%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

VOV.VN - During the first quarter of the year the nation had a total of 39 planes which underwent maintenance, while their flight operations were suspended due to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to data released by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

VOV.VN - The ongoing global impact of COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact, not only on the production and business activities of Vietnamese enterprises over the past year, but has also led to a sharp decline in their business confidence.

VOV.VN - Colombia is viewed as a potential market and ranks fifth among the largest Vietnamese export markets in Latin America, with two-way trade turnover increasing from US$42.95 million in 2007 to US$509 million in 2019.

VOV.VN- Maintaining and developing the time-honoured friendship and the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China is always one of the top priorities in Vietnam’s external policy.