VOV.VN - Russia wishes to increase mutually beneficial cooperation with Vietnam in various fields, from traditional to new ones, said Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Gennady Stepanovich Bezdetko at a press briefing in Hanoi on May 2.

Lotte Card Co., Ltd, No.5 credit card issuer in the Republic of Korea, said on May 2 that it has funneled KRW93.7 billion (US$68 million) into its Vietnamese unit - Lotte Finance Vietnam - to expand its business in the Southeast Asian country.

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches importance to strengthening the traditional friendship and all-round cooperation with Morocco, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son told Moroccan Minister of Economy and Finance Nadia Fettah Alaoui.

Vietnam Airlines Corporation reported after-tax profit of VND4.44 trillion (US$173.19 million) in Quarter 1 as it is strengthening its international flights and restructuring.

The State Bank of Vietnam will auction an additional 16,800 taels of SJC-branded gold bars to businesses at 9am on May 3, it said in a statement released on May 2.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s disbursed FDI capital in the past four months rose 7.4% over the previous year’s corresponding period to US$6.28 billion, the highest in the past five years, according to the General Statistics Office.

The national youth chess championship will be held in Bac Giang from May 24 to June 5, with the northern province freshly issuing a plan on the organisation of the event.

VOV.VN - The Australia-Vietnam Young Leaders Dialogue Network hosted a digital technology forum in Melbourne on May 2 to map out orientations for digital cooperation between Vietnam and Australia.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is expected to produce 43 million tonnes of rice this year, of which more than 8 million tonnes will be for export, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VOV.VN - The government of Japan has decided to present Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun to Hoang Binh Quan, former head of the Party Central Committee’s External Relations Commission.