From now until the end of the year, many trade promotion and consumer demand stimulation programmes will be launched to boost the domestic market.

The Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank – HOSE: HDB) and Proparco, a French development finance institution, have signed a credit facility worth US$50 million in HCM City on September 16.

VOV.VN - As many as 93 photographs featuring the various beautiful aspects of culture, nature, and social life in Vietnam will be on display during the Vietnam tourism-cinema promotion programme to be held from September 23 to September 25 in the US.

A special TV programme was held by Vietnam Television (VTV) in the presence of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 15 to show support for people in the areas hit by super Typhoon Yagi and its accompanying flooding and landslides.

Nearly 17,000 children aged 1-5 in Ho Chi Minh City got measles jabs from August 31 to September 2 as the city recently declared the contagious and serious airborne disease an epidemic.

Vietnam has had more than 400 green buildings with a combined certified construction area of about 10 million sq.m, according to the Ministry of Construction.

The Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) and the China Coast Guard (CCG) held their first exchange programme on the Party and political affairs in Hanoi on August 27.

VOV.VN - About 40 foreign experts, including film directors and producers and tourism operators, have been invited to participate in a tourism-cinema-sport promotion programme in Vietnam’s central coastal province of Binh Dinh to seek cooperation opportunities.

VOV.VN - An exchange programme between Vietnamese youth leaders and their Singaporean counterparts kicked off in Singapore on August 19 with the aim of promoting solidarity and cultural exchanges among young leaders.

Vietnam's personnel service provider GEDU International GmbH and Infineon Technologies Dresden, Germany's largest semiconductor chip company, have recently signed a letter of intent on cooperation in recruiting young Vietnamese talents for both Infineon's dual training and direct recruitment programmes.