Highlights

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed Dispatch No. 185/CD-TTg calling for urgent action to remedy the aftermath of Typhoon Bualoi and subsequent floods.

According to the Ministry of Finance, state budget revenue in the first nine months of 2025 was estimated at 1,887.9 trillion VND, up 27.9% year-on-year and equivalent to 96% of the annual estimate. While domestic revenue and import–export revenue maintained positive momentum, disbursement of development investment spending remained sluggish, reaching only 53.7% of the plan.

Cultural industry has been identified as the pathway to transforming Viet Nam’s wealth of heritage, cultural identity, and creative intellect into both soft power and economic strength. Yet, in order to turn potential into reality, solutions are needed to remove barriers and create momentum for Viet Nam’s cultural industry to take off.

“Party congresses are closely related to the future of our Party’s revolution and our people.” Imbued with President Ho Chi Minh’s teaching, Party committees at all levels have taken a close, scientific, and candid approach in reviewing practice, renewing their mindset, and striving to create breakthroughs—spreading motivation and aspirations for development.

Today’s world is witnessing profound and unpredictable changes. Armed conflicts, strategic competition between major powers, socio-economic crises, climate change, global epidemics… have created comprehensive shocks, challenging the value systems, development models and political systems of many countries.

In recent years, alongside the implementation of electronic visas and visas on arrival, the Vietnamese Government has taken significant steps to improve the country’s visa policy, making it more open and flexible.

Amid the robust growth of e-commerce in Viet Nam, cross-border e-commerce has been identified as a strategic pillar, opening up golden opportunities for Vietnamese goods to reach further on the global trade map while enhancing the nation’s competitiveness in global value chains.

In the first half of 2025, Viet Nam recorded a 32% increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector, equivalent to nearly 12 billion USD, accounting for more than 56% of total registered capital. This is the highest level since 2009, marking progress not only in scale but also in the quality of flows of investment capital.

In recent years, Vietnamese cinema has flourished, with many films have been released and become box-office “phenomena”. The strong recovery of Vietnamese films not only reflects the creativity of filmmakers but also signals new prospects for cultural industry development.

Viet Nam’s political system is entering a phase of vigorous, comprehensive and synchronised reform. This process ranges from streamlining the apparatus and enhancing operational effectiveness to accelerating digital transformation, administrative reform and improving the investment and business environment.