Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting between permanent Government members and the executive committee of the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Hanoi on July 6 to seek solutions to challenges facing SMEs.

VOV.VN - Despite encountering numerous difficulties this year, especially the impact of complications globally, the national economy is now showing positive signs moving towards the second half of the year, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung has said.

The trend of electronic and non-cash payments in the Vietnamese economy in 2023 continued to record growth of 52.35% in volume over the same period last year.

VOV.VN - According to data released on June 29 by the General Statistics Office (GSO), the Vietnamese economy is continuing to encounter difficulties as it only expanded by an estimated 3.72% during the first six months of the year.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy is continuing to encounter difficulties as it only expanded by estimated 3.72% in the first half of the year, according to statistics released by the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's official visit to China has contributed to concretising the common perceptions of the two Party General Secretaries, especially the joint statement on continuing to promote and deepen the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership issued in December 2022, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.

The steel market is likely to recover in the third and fourth quarters of this year thanks to augmented efforts to disburse public investment and credit packages for social housing projects, along with positive signs of the Vietnamese economy, said Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) Doan Danh Tuan.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy should be put under the microscope after its growth suddenly slowed in the first quarter of 2023, suggested the World Bank (WB) in its Vietnam Macro Monitoring edition for April.

The Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Messe Frankfurk Group, one of the world’s leading trade fair, congress and event organisers with their own exhibition grounds, on cooperation in trade promotion.

Many enterprises forecast less optimistic business results in the first quarter of the year, due to weak domestic macro data in the first few months.