The COVID-19 health crisis and resulting wide-ranging and deeply-felt economic upheaval has flipped the logistics industry on its head, leaving ill-protected freight firms in dire need of emergency State support to survive hardships.

VOV.VN - The World Bank has said the Vietnamese economy appears to have fared relatively well in light of the fourth coronavirus outbreak, but warned several signs suggest slowdown in economic activity if the pandemic is not contained in the short term.

The current COVID-19 resurgence has put the brakes on trade, transport and tourism, with all the sectors experiencing declines in May, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - Despite entry to parks around Hanoi being restricted, many municipal residents continue to gather in large groups in public to participate in exercise and other sporting activities.

The UK's forecasting and quantitative analysing company Oxford Economics has given positive assessments on Vietnam, highlighting the rising role of the country in the global manufacturing supply chains.

Vietnam has for the first time released a list of sectors which foreign investors are restricted or banned from accessing.

Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on March 24 announced the relaxation of travel restrictions for entrepreneurs from Vietnam and Singapore, which are at a low risk of COVID-19 infection.

VOV.VN - Hai Duong province, the country’s biggest coronavirus hotspot and a gateway to Hanoi capital, has confirmed an additional 16 locally transmitted cases by noon February 3.

Russia will lift the entry restrictions on people from Vietnam and some other countries such as Finland, India and Qatar, with flights to these countries set to resume from January 27, the Russian Government has announced.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has made a breakthrough in its ongoing struggle to stamp out corruption, thereby generating public consensus and building up trust among citizens in the ruling Party’s leadership, a conference was told in Hanoi on December 12.