With its progressive and reformist government and under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Vietnam has achieved enormous progress in economic development, Veeramalla Anjaiah, a Senior Research Fellow at the Jakarta-based Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) has said.

All Vietnamese people who joined a survey in December last year said that they fully support and give the Vietnamese Government approval on how it had worked to control the pandemic, according the Bangkok-based ScandAsia magazine.

VOV.VN - Joseph Incalcaterra, chief economist for ASEAN at the HSBC Global Research has hailed Vietnam’s handling of the virus, as saying that its response to the pandemic allowed the country to maintain its reputation as a “very good destination” for foreign direct investment.

VOV.VN - The best conditions should be created for research institutions to produce COVID-19 vaccines locally, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a meeting with permanent Cabinet members in Hanoi on Dec. 21.

The 31st meeting of the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee for the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre was held via video conferencing on December 15.

VOV.VN - The Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) has recently released a report relating to the medium-term forecasts of various Asian economies, in which the nation is anticipated to develop into a middle-income country by 2023, whilst going onto surpass Taiwan (China) in terms of GDP by 2035.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese scientists Assoc. Prof. Tran Xuan Bach and Prof. Tran Thi Ly have been awarded the Noam Chomsky Global Connections Award for their contributions in their respective fields.

VOV.VN - In the face of the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam will temporarily not conduct commercial flights to bring home citizens who voluntarily pay for quarantine fees.

VOV.VN - BORGEN Magazine, one of the leading NGOs detailing the fight against poverty in the United States and part of the Borgen Project, has recently run an article assessing the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Vietnam and its impact on the nation.

VOV.VN - The website usnews.com has published its Best University Rankings 2021 and named Vietnam’s Ton Duc Thang University among top 700 in the world.