The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has agreed to allow airlines of Vietnam and China to operate two flights per week, instead of only one flight per week as before, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) said on June 16. A plane of Vietnam Airlines (Photo: Vietnam Airlines) The move showed the effective COVID-19 prevention and control...

While Vietnam plans a 7,000MW of offshore wind power by 2030, most of wind farm investors shared their concern about the bidding mechanism for the industry in a recent energy workshop in Hanoi. Trung Nam Tra Vinh 1 Wind Power JSC, a member of Trungnam Group inaugurates the Dong Hai I Wind Power Plant in Duyen Hai district, the...

Vietnam’s domestic aviation market is recovering at the fastest pace in the world with a growth rate of 123 percent compared to the same period of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Passengers wait to handle boarding procedures at an airport of Vietnam. (Photo: VNA) This was revealed in an analysis by Airbus and the International Air Transport...

Hanoi is working to expand its night-time economic activities to form a typical economic sector that contributes to the capital city’s socio-economic development. Walkers at Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square in Hanoi's Hoan Kiem district. (Photo: VNA) The city’s major night-time hubs include streets in the Old Quarter such as Ta Hien, Luong Ngoc Quyen, Ma May, Hang...

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh has stressed the need to develop Vietnamese ginseng into a product with national brand. Ngoc Linh ginseng (Photo: VNA) Speaking at a conference on building a Vietnamese ginseng development programme by 2030 with a vision to 2045 on June 15, Doanh said that it is necessary to continue attracting...

Vietnam will see more realty projects invested by businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK) in the coming time as they are seeking opportunities to enter and expand operations in the country, according to Andrew Lee, Korean Desk Manager at real estate consultancy Savills Vietnam. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) A recent survey by Savills Vietnam said Vietnam’s realty...

Experts have raised strong support for a comprehensive reform for the draft revised Petroleum Law that will help further develop the country’s oil and gas industry. The Bach Ho oil field (White Tiger oilfield) is a major oil field in the Cuu Long basin of the East Sea located offshore due east of the Mekong Delta. (Photo: VNA) The...

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien joined trade ministers and senior officials from 164 member countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 12-15. Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien (first, right) at the conference. (Photo: VNA) The Vietnamese delegation also...

Vietnam is finalising procedures to get allowance to export longan to Japan – one of the world’s choosiest markets. Vietnamese longan (Photo: VNA) Japan has always been a market with strict standards in importing agricultural products. Meanwhile, more and more Vietnamese people are living and working in Japan, and Japanese consumers' tastes are also changing. Vietnamese food is gradually...

Experts forecast that bank net interest margins (NIM) will decline as inflation rises next month. Techcombank's transaction office in Hanoi. Techcombank has recently increased its savings rate by 0.3-0.45 percentage points this year. (Photo courtesy of Techcombank) Vietnam's consumer price index in the first five months of the year edged up 2.25 percent year-on-year while core inflation rose...