Standard Chartered Bank forecasts Vietnam’s second quarter GDP growth to have slowed to 1.5% year-on-year (from 3.3% in the first quarter), posing downside risks to its 6.5% growth forecast for 2023. However, a rebound is expected in the second half of the year.
President of the National Council of Switzerland Martin Candinas arrived in Hanoi on June 27 afternoon, beginning his four-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
A Vietnam-Australia business forum was held in Sydney on June 27 to help Vietnamese enterprises know more about the Australian market and connect them with businesses in this Oceania country.
VOV.VN - Five Vietnamese track-and-field athletes have been stripped of their results and banned from competitions from 16 to 18 months following their doping violations at the 31st SEA Games held in Vietnam in 2022.
VOV.VN - China considers Vietnam a priority partner in its overall periphery diplomacy, Chinese President and Party General Secretary Xi Jinping told Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh in Beijing on June 27.
Somsavat Lengsavad, former Politburo member and former Deputy Prime Minister of Laos, highlighted the substantial contributions by former Deputy PM of Vietnam Vu Khoan to the special Vietnam - Laos relations.
A total of 120 children, including 100 from Japan and 20 from Vietnam, will take part in the upcoming Japan Football Association (JFA) Uniqlo Soccer Kids slated for July 1 and 2 in Vietnam.
VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh who is in China for a visit, met with Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, on June 27.
VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue voiced Vietnam’s firm support for Cuba’s just revolutionary cause during his reception for Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, secretary general of the Cuban Workers’ Centre in Hanoi on June 27.
VOV.VN - Since establishing relations in 1989, Vietnam and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have shown strong co-operation in holding macro policy consultations, reducing plastic waste, promoting sustainable agriculture, narrowing the labour skills gap, and speeding up digital transformation.