COVID-19 a once-in-a-century opportunity to boost digital transformation

The COVID-19 pandemic was offering a once-in-a-hundred-year opportunity for Việt Nam to boost digital transformation on a national scale, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng said at the ministry’s conference on Monday.

Economic restoration needs 'wartime' policy effort

The Government’s new growth target of 4 per cent this year, though ambitious, could still be achieved if policy implementation is organised well.

Stronger money policies might be considered to aid economic growth: SBV The central bank’s statistics showed loan payment deadlines were restructured for nearly 260,000 customers with outstanding loans worth nearly VNĐ18 trillion (US$775.8 million)

Information sector contributes significantly to COVID-19 fight Telecom service providers sent over 15 billion text messages regarding COVID-19 control and prevention during the first half of 2020 and received donations via text for victims of the pandemic totalling VNĐ152 billion (US$6.58 million).

Messi, Griezmann, Suarez star as Barcelona beat Villarreal to keep La Liga title hopes alive Antoine Griezmann was back in the starting line-up and repaid the faith with a stunning goal, teed up by Lionel Messi.

VIB's journey to large retail bank Vietnam International Bank (VIB) aims to earn pre-tax profit of VNĐ4.5 trillion (over US$193 million) in 2020, up 10 per cent year-on-year. 

National retail sales, service revenues up in June

Online shopping has become increasingly popular, especially when social distancing measures were put in place.

Đà Nẵng sees negative economic growth for first time in over 20 years Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the central city of Đà Nẵng saw its GRDP for the first half of the year contract by 3.61 per cent from the same period in 2019, the first time since the city became a centrally-run locality in 1997.

More work needed to improve population quality: official

Although Việt Nam has obtained some achievements in improving the quality of its population there still room for improvement, said Đỗ Xuân Tuyên, deputy minister of health.

Pork and oil prices key to keeping inflation under control: experts

Inflation is currently under considerable pressure and the consumer price index (CPI) jumped 0.66 per cent in June against the previous month, the largest increase since 2016.