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Tel Aviv (VNA) – Vietnam earned an estimated 700 million USD from exporting goods to Israel in 2020 despite difficulties and obstacles posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the  Vietnamese Trade Office in the Middle East country. The figure showed a slight reduction from 774 million USD reported last year. This is said to be a positive result in the context that the Israeli market witnessed fluctuations, disturbances and difficulties amid political instability and negative impacts from the pandemic. Notably in November last year, Vietnam's export value to Israel surged by 27.2 percent compared to the previous month, reaching 51.04 million USD. Turnover of most key export items rose strongly in the month, with coffee up 108.6 percent, footwear (35 percent), phones and accessories (31 percent), and textiles and garments (21.4 percent) cashew nuts (16.9 percent), and seafood products (3.3 percent). Israel, with a population of only 9.3 million, is the third … [Read more...] about Vietnam maintains stable exports to Israel in 2020

Nguyen Huu Quynh Nhu, the boss of iamfoodtester In the meantime, another Vietnamese food reviewer, Dao Hong Phuong Anh, attracts fans as she provides reviews for not only food in her country but also in the U.S., where she is doing a BA course in programming and completing a master’s degree in business administration. … [Read more...] about Food reviewing emerges as new job choice among young Vietnamese

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the effort to preserve the industry’s OTP rate at 90.9 per cent, up 4.5 per cent compared to the same period in 2019, is a bright signal of service improvement by domestic firms. In addition, thanks to Viet Nam's effective control over the pandemic, the domestic aviation industry has shown its ability to recover quickly. As in December 2020, the total number of flights across the industry has reached nearly 20,000, only 34 per cent less than the same period a year earlier. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 17

The first human trial of COVID-19 vaccine Nanocovax begins in Vietnam on December 17 with the first three volunteers, receiving injections at the Military Medical Academy. (Photo: VNA) She said that the Military Medical University gave 75mcg of Nanocovax, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Vietnam, to three volunteers on January 12. This is the highest dose of the vaccine given to volunteers during the first stage of human trials. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 17