Vietnam sees once-in-a-generation opportunity: Nikkei newspaper Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
22/01/2021 19:52 GMT+7
Japan s Nikkei newspaper has run a story highlighting the opportunity for Vietnam to rise stronger after the COVID-19 pandemic is completely controlled.
A New Year firework show in HCM City, one of the major economic hubs of Vietnam (Illustrative image. Photo: VNA)
It spotlighted Vietnam s efforts in maintaining economic activities amid the pandemic, which made the country one of the Asian economies recording the highest growth in 2020.
The article noted that in 2020, Vietnam signed three free trade agreements (FTA), and saw the introduction of another airline, while rising to the sixth position in Southeast Asia in terms of per capita income.
Vietnam’s agricultural and aquatic products are expected to see a big jump in exports to the United Kingdom on the back of the newly-enforced UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement.
Greater efforts needed to firmly protect sea and islands sovereignty: Official Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
12/01/2021 10:40 GMT+7
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to keep a close watch on,
and resolutely and persistently fight to firmly protect Vietnam’s sea and islands sovereignty and legitimate interests in the East Sea.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh speaks at the conference (Photo: VNA)
Addressing a conference to review the MoFA’s performance in 2020 and set out tasks and orientations in 2021, Minh launched this year’s theme for the ministry “Building a comprehensive and modern diplomacy and successfully implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress”.
Fitch Solutions holds a more optimistic view on Vietnam’s economic rebound in 2021, with its real GDP growth forecast at 8.6%, against the government’s 6.5% target.