VPBank and Proparco – the private sector financing branch of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed a 50-million-USD loan with the aim of supporting climate-friendly initiatives, green …
Vietnam expects GDP growth next year at 6-6.5%
According to a Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) report delivered at the Government meeting for August, MPI Minister Nguyen Chi Dung projected that the Vietnamese economy will continue to face …
Why many Chinese funds pouring capital into Vietnam’s stock market
Taiwan-based CTBC Vietnam Equity Fund has registered to buy 21 million VFMVN Diamond ETF fund certificates from September 7 to October 6 to increase its ownership. Besides CTBC Vietnam Equity Fund, no …
$5 a day: Vietnam sets price for arrivals’ stays at COVID-19 quarantine camps
International arrivals who stay at centralized quarantine facilities in Vietnam are now required to pay at least VND120,000 (US$5.10) per day for their quarantine cost. Vietnamese Prime Minister …
How Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City will transform into a full-fledged smart city
With new trade and investment opportunities arising during the pandemic-dampened past few months, Vietnam and its business capital Ho Chi Minh City has stood out as an attractive destination, even …
Vietnam now Japan’s top coffee supplier, fueled by COVID
Sales of the higher-quality arabica beans favored by coffee shops have fallen. The trend has made Vietnam, the world’s biggest producer of robusta, Japan’s top supplier of coffee beans and …
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite finds tropical storm Noul fading over Laos
Tropical Storm Noul made landfall in central Vietnam on Sept. 17 and NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of the storm over Laos. Noul was weakening as it moves toward Thailand where it …
Storm Noul makes landfall in Vietnam, moves into Laos
Tropical storm Noul made landfall in Vietnam on Friday, killing at least one person and triggering heavy rain in the central part of the country, though authorities later downgraded the weather system …
Fact-check: Black Lives Matter protesters did not deface Vietnam Memorial in Washington
A reverse image search shows that the image in the post is not the wall in Washington, but a Vietnam memorial in California that was defaced in 2016.
Lightning kills 7 in Cambodia, storm hits land in Vietnam
A tropical storm has made landfall in central Vietnam, killing one person, while seven people died in a lightning strike in neighboring Cambodia …