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(VEN) - International financial institutions have launched financial support packages to help businesses, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises overcome difficulties in the post-pandemic period.

(VEN) - Vietnamese lychees have been imported into Singapore for the first time on a large scale and are now available in the NTUC FairPrice supermarket chain. Vietnam Economic News’ Thu Phuong spoke with Vietnamese Commercial Counselor in Singapore, Dr. Tran Thu Quynh, about this breakthrough.

(VEN) - Pursuing comprehensive reform, the biggest, state-owned power corporation/group in Vietnam - Vietnam Electricity (EVN) - has implemented a digital transformation of its customer services, which are all performed online now as level-4 public services. 

(VEN) - The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Vietnam’s labor market hard despite government efforts to help workers and businesses overcome the consequences of the disease and the country’s overall success in curbing infections.

(VEN) - The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) will help deepen the Vietnamese cashew sector’s involvement in global supply chains and increase its exports to the EU market. Vietnam Economic News’ Ha Duyen spoke about the export prospects with Dang Hoang Giang, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Vietnam Cashew Association (VINACAS). 

(VEN) - The industry and trade sector of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province has undertaken to create a favorable business environment for businesses in keeping with government resolutions.

(VEN) - Facing increasingly stringent product quality requirements, Vietnamese Tra fish exporters must comply with new standards for farming areas, breeding and rearing processes, catching and processing in order to ensure favorable export prospects to the US.

(VEN) - Dak Lak  Province has greatly modernized its rural production with the support in both human and material resources of national and local industry promotion budgets.

(VEN) - Its success in controlling the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic is making Vietnam an attractive investment destination.

(VEN) - Vietnam needs a different approach to boost its integration into the global value chain and take advantage of the early containment of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to draw foreign investors, and specifically those eyeing to shift their investments out of China, experts say.

Vietnamese firms have been increasing their overseas investments in recent years in an effort to expand their global reach.

(VEN) - Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 1.81 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to a year ago, and is projected to grow better in the second half.

(VEN) - Bac Ninh Province has gradually joined the global value chain over the past decade by realizing the key importance of its supporting industries and adopting policies to develop them.

(VEN) - Economists say Vietnam should come to terms with a decline in its growth rate this year and prepare to maintain and boost growth in the coming years, since the Covid-19 pandemic will likely last longer than expected.

(VEN) - Vietnamese supporting industry enterprises are implementing more effective capital use and restructuring as they reorganize to seize post Covid-19 opportunities.

(VEN) - At a July 2 online conference between the Vietnamese government and localities, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked sectors and localities to sustain the import-export goal and aim at a trade surplus this year. The country’s trade surplus reached a four-year record of US$9.9 billion in 2019.

Vietnam exported over 166,800 tonnes of peppercorn worth 356 million USD in the first half of 2020, down 5.7 percent in volume and 21.1 percent in value compared to the same period last year, according to the General Department of Customs.

(VEN) - A workshop titled “Increasing sales together with Amazon and Tiki” took place recently in Hanoi.

Many private enterprises said they want to invest in building renewable energy infrastructure, but Việt Nam still lacks mechanisms to encourage private enterprises to participate in this activity.

The central city began construction of the first surface-mount technology (SMT) factory at Đà Nẵng Hi-Tech Park. The plant would make printed circuit boards and electronic components for export from early 2021.

(VEN) - Lam Dong is one of five Central Highlands provinces selected by the Ministry of Industry and Trade for a key three-year project to improve the productivity and quality of coffee processing by rural industrial establishments.

Malaysia could become one of the biggest export markets in ASEAN for Việt Nam, especially in the post-pandemic period, a city official said at a meeting in HCM City on Thursday (July 16).

(VEN) - Investment in processing technology is helping the agricultural sector recover after the pandemic, as well as opening a window of opportunity for Vietnam to achieve its goal of ranking among the world’s top 10 agriculture-processing nations.

(VEN) - Electricity consumption in Vietnam recorded an all-time high of 38,800MW in June, according to the Vietnam Electricity (EVN), breaking the level of 38,147MW recorded in June 2019. EVN, the state-owned national power distribution company, plans to utilize multiple electricity sources to ensure sufficient power amid constantly rising demand and adverse climate change effects.