Việt Nam News

HCM City businesses are seeking assistance from authorities to revive production and overcome problems such as lack of workers and high raw material costs.

U Minh Thượng National Park in the southern province of Kiên Giang has been welcoming an increasing number of tourists after months of closure to prevent COVID-19 and wildfires.

Nearly 60 per cent of credit institutions forecast their business performance results to improve in Q2 after estimating those in Q1 to be not as good as expected, the latest survey by the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) showed.

Sea freight rates continue to escalate as they track petroleum prices, pushing up export costs and thus reducing the competitiveness of Vietnamese goods, according to businesses.

The recent increase in price of animal feed has brought more difficulties for the livestock production of businesses and farmers.

The boat route connecting Chàm Islands and Hội An City’s Cửa Đại port has resumed as usual after a two-day temporary halt for checks on March 14-15.

As the number of new COVID-19 infections in Hà Nội continues to rise after the Tết holidays, people have been rushing to buy COVID-19 rapid test kits, causing a shortage and increased prices in some areas. 

Positive news about the resumption of aviation and tourism services have helped tourism stocks to surge, with many even hitting celling prices continuously, despite the VN-Index struggling around the 1,500-point level.

Web dramas produced by famous Vietnamese artistes earned millions of YouTube views and elicited heartwarming laughter during the Tết holiday.