VOV.VN - Index provider FTSE Russell released its Equity Country Classification report for September 2025 on October 7 (local time), officially upgrading Vietnam’s stock market from frontier to secondary emerging market status.

Vietnam's industrial index of production (IIP) jumped 10% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, with gains recorded in all 34 localities, reported the Ministry of Finance's National Statistics Office (NSO).

Vietnam recorded 145,000 newly registered enterprises in the first nine months of this year, an increase of 18.9% year on year, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

Vietnam is set to top growth charts among developing East Asia and Pacific economies in 2025, with gross domestic product forecast to rise 6.6%, the region's quickest pace, according to the World Bank (WB)'s East Asia and Pacific Economic Update released for October.

The overall 5G data consumption in Vietnam has doubled, while the average 5G traffic in Thailand and China has increased by 1.5 times.

VOV.VN - Nearly 100 businesses from 18 provinces and cities across Vietnam will participate in the 21st Vietnam Craft Village Fair scheduled for October 9 to 13 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Coast Guard ship 8002 of Flotilla 21, Coast Guard Region 2 Command, has visited the Philippines for bilateral exchanges with the Philippine Coast Guard in early October, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam-Philippines Strategic Partnership (2015-2025) and in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations (1976-2026).

VOV.VN - Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai on October 6 hosted a reception for Dr. Kambiz Ghawami, President of the World University Service (WUS) and authorised representative of the German state of Hessen, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.

Daniel Müller, a representative of the German Asia-Pacific Business Association (OAV), has described Vietnam and Germany – the European Union’s largest economy – as ideal and complementary partners in trade and investment.

Over the past half century, the traditional friendship between Vietnam and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire has been nurtured and steadily developed across multiple channels, yielding tangible achievements.