Don Lam, deputy head of Vietnam’s Private Economic Development Research Board, said that the two countries are seeing positive figures in trade relations with Vietnam’s imports from India rising 65 percent between 2017 and 2020 to reach $4.5 billion. … [Read more...] about Indian investment in Vietnam yet to match potential: official
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Progresses seen in Vietnam management of national foreign debts: workshop
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has recorded significant achievements in managing national foreign debts over the past three decades, said an official at a workshop held in Hanoi on January 26. Vo Huu Hien, Vice General Director of the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Debt Management and External Finance, made the statement, adding that the effective management has transformed Vietnam from a poor and heavily indebted country into a one receiving international organisations’ recognition as having a controlled external debt level and being excluded from the group of countries with a debt burden. According to data from the ministry, the public sector’s proportion in the structure of the national external debt decreased from 73.6 percent in 2010 to 63.4 percent in 2015 and 43.7 percent in 2020. The Government’s foreign loans are mainly official development assistance and concessional loans. To date, Vietnam has signed more than 85 billion USD worth of these loans. … [Read more...] about Progresses seen in Vietnam management of national foreign debts: workshop
Vietnam News Agency brings warmer Tet to poor ethnic children in Kon Tum
Kon Tum (VNA) - About 200 sets of winter clothes were presented to primary school students in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum by the Vietnam News Agency’s representative office in the Central and Central Highlands region and the Kon Tum Power Company on the morning of January 26. The students, who are from the Xe Dang ethnic minority group, are studying at the Dak Nen Semi-Boarding Primary School for Ethnic Minorities in Dak Nen commune, Kon Plong district. The school has a total of eight campuses, the farthest of which is in Dak Puk Village, 30km away from the centre of Dak Nen. The Dak Pao campus has only five students in first grade; the smallest number of all. The handover was part of a programme to bring impoverished children in mountainous and ethnic minority areas a warmer Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Ethnic minorities in remote Dak Nen commune face many hardships, said Principal Le Tan Truong Anh. Most of the students have to walk a long distance to … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency brings warmer Tet to poor ethnic children in Kon Tum
Vietnam, Ukraine beef up trade cooperation
An, who co-chaired the session, suggested that both sides work closely together to create a favorable legal framework for key Vietnamese farm products such as seafood, meat, and fresh fruits to access the Ukrainian market more easily, and similarly for key Ukrainian goods such as cereals, meat and milk on the other way. … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Ukraine beef up trade cooperation
Congratulations coming for 13th National Party Congress
Hanoi (VNA) – The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which officially opened in Hanoi on January 26, has received many messages of congratulations from around the globe. They came from political parties and international organisations and friends, who all expressed their friendship and cooperative feelings toward the Party, State and people of Vietnam, demonstrating their deep interest in the Congress. As of January 22, the Congress had received 215 congratulatory messages from 105 parties, four regional and international organisations, 76 friendship organisations, 15 diplomatic corps and 15 individuals from 79 countries. The well-wishers included the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the Communist Party of China, the Cambodian People's Party, the Communist Party of Cuba and the Workers' Party of Korea of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Twenty-five messages were from Asian and Oceanian countries, while 33 came from European … [Read more...] about Congratulations coming for 13th National Party Congress