VOV.VN - Following Vietnam’s export turnover to Sweden witnessing an annual increase of 99.94% in January, the advantages brought about by the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) are anticipated to promote greater trade links between the two countries, according to insiders.

Vietnam has the potential to turn itself into an international resort destination that can compete with tourism powerhouses like Thailand and Indonesia, an expert from Savills has said.

Nearly 15,000 blood units were successfully collected through “Chung dong mau Viet 2020” (Blood for Vietnamese 2020) programme, bringing the total units of blood that Samsung Vietnam’s employees have donated since 2010 to 100,000.

A national online book festival will be held on April 17, at book365.vn. ​

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City must purchase a further five million doses of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine as it needs a total of 18 million doses, with the expected allocation by the Ministry of Health set to not be enough, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.

VOV.VN - The prices of Vietnamese rice has reached a new record of US$567 per tonne, whilst continuing to exceed regional peers such as Thailand, India, and Pakistan, according to figures released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has spoken highly of Vietnam’s digital economy which grew by 16% in 2020.

VOV.VN - Ngoc Thao, second runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2020, has posed for photographs whilst wearing a wonderful Thai costume as part of her participation in the Miss Grand International 2020 beauty pageant.

VOV.VN - The Embassy of New Zealand and ActionAid Vietnam will provide support for female workers operating in informal sectors in the central city of Da Nang City and Thua Thien-Hue province in line with a new partnership.

Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Vinh, along with staff from the Vietnamese Embassy in Algeria and certain agencies, laid a wreath at a memorial stele on “Journalistes du Vietnam 8/3/1974” Street in the Algerian capital - Algiers - on March 7 to commemorate Algerian journalists who died in a plane crash in Vietnam in 1974.