NDO/VNA – Despite facing difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam's footwear industry still achieved double-digit growth and some companies have received long-term orders. 

NDO - Economic growth in the first two quarters of 2021 was lower than the expected scenario, and the complicated developments of the fourth wave of the Covid-19 epidemic are posing difficult problems for the year-end period; therefore, the Government has taken prompt responses to promote growth drivers and gradually establish a new normal. 

NDO/VNA – The disbursed amount of public investment funded by official development assistance (ODA) in localities in the first five months of this year stood at only over VND1.1 trillion (US$47.9 million), equivalent to just 1.73% of the year’s target, according to the Ministry of Finance (MoF). 

NDO/VNA – Agricultural exports to China posted impressive growth between January and May, with shipments of some produce even matching or surpassing the corresponding figures for the entire 2020, data of the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development showed. 

NDO/VNA – A ‘thieu’ lychee batch, weighing close to a tonne, from the northern province of Hai Duong arrived at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in France on June 12, informed the Ministry of Industry and Trade. 

NDO - Industrial production and retail sales could be further affected by the fourth wave of Covid-19 in Vietnam if it is not contained quickly, the World Bank (WB) has said in its latest update on the Vietnamese economy. 

NDO/VNA - The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Tri signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF) via a video conference on June 11. 

NDO/VNA - The PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation (PV GAS) has been named among the top 50 listed companies 2021 by Forbes Vietnam for the 9th consecutive year. 

NDO – The manufacturing sector has taken the lead in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) capital since early this year, accounting for over 43% of total new FDI capital in Vietnam. 

NDO/VNA – Vietnam has sufficient conditions to achieve the twin targets of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic and securing economic growth in 2021, according to Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Andrew Jeffries. 

NDO/VNA – Vinhomes JSC, Hoa Phat Group JSC, Mobile World Investment Corporation and Vietcombank are among the top 50 public companies in 2021 announced by Vietnam Report. 

NDO - The country’s economic growth in the second quarter of the year is expected to be lower than expected. However, the economy will also continue recovering strongly, with processing and manufacturing, and the service sector serving as key drivers of growth. 

NDO/VNA - Thanks to the preferential tariffs under the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, footwear exports to the bloc’s 27 member countries increased by 19.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021. 

NDO - Truong Gia Binh, head of the Prime Minister’s private sector development research team, shares his views on the need for the government’s prompt support so that enterprises can fight the pandemic effectively and maintain production and business activities at the same time.