Vietnam posted an estimated trade surplus of US$1.3 billion in January, according to a report recently announced by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Logistics, considered a backbone of Vietnam’s economy, is among eight sectors prioritised by the national programme for digital transformation until 2025.

It’s fair to say that 2020 was a challenging year for Vietnam’s tourism sector, but it wasn’t an unmitigated disaster. Analysts have said that COVID-19 created a turning point for both local and international tourism, requiring travel companies study and craft a new future for their business.

Vietnam will continue with the building of a modernity-oriented agriculture sector with complete value chains in 2021, according to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

VOV.VN - The agricultural sector performed strongly last year despite facing difficulties due to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and natural disasters, thereby helping the nation to ensure national food security and maintain exports.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is capable of achieving a higher GDP growth rate than the set target of 6% in 2021, providing it accelerates reforms and draws up proper plans for economic recovery in the post-COVID-19 period, according to economist Nguyen Dinh Cung, former Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has recently issued a document requesting the aviation sector to enhance COVID-19 prevention measures before, during and after the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

HCM City’s economy saw a variety of bright spots in the opening month of 2021 despite the ongoing complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Moving ahead into the coming months there is a positive outlook for Vietnamese coffee exports due to global coffee stocks in port warehouses falling to their lowest level in many years, according to data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Vietnam’s goods exports were valued at US$27.7 billion, up 0.2% from the previous month and 50.5% from the same period last year, according to the latest data unveiled by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).