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A new report of Material Handling & Logistics, a US website, finds that 43 percent of US-based respondents cited Vietnam among their top three buying geographies as of early 2021, doubled from 2019, according to the Vietnam News Agency.
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has forecast that Vietnam would maintain its position as the world’s second biggest rice exporter this year, reported Vietnam News Agency.
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The US-based newswire barrons.com has published an article analysing positive impacts on Vietnam’s financial market of an infrastructure development plan issued at the 13th National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam, according to Vietnam News Agency.
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The State budget revenue was estimated at 543.4 trillion VND (over 23.7 billion USD) in the first four months of 2021, equivalent to 40.5 percent of the estimate and up 7.3 percent from a year earlier, Vietnam News Agency quoted figures of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
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The disbursement of public investment sourced from the State budget in April was estimated at 30.4 trillion VND (1.32 billion USD), a year-on-year surge of 23.9 percent, and reaching the highest monthly level since 2017, Vietnam News Agency quoted figures of the General Statistics Office.
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Vietnamese firms invested 545.9 million USD in overseas projects in the first four months of 2021, a year-on-year rise of 7.9-fold, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, reported Vietnam News Agency.
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Russian scholars have congratulated Vietnam on its historic victory in the Dien Bien Phu campaign on the occasion of its 67th anniversary on May 7, saying it was the most important battle in the first Indochina War, reported Vietnam News Agency.
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An aid package of 810,00 high-quality face masks donated by the Vietnamese Government on May 6 arrived in Dili, Timor-Leste, which is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, reported Vietnam News Agency.
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(13th Congress) - The northern province of Bac Giang has set a goal of increasing the rate of trained labourers to 80% by 2025, while vocational training foundations aim to give vocational training to 147,500 labourers from 2021 to 2025.
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The portal of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber has run an article hailing Vietnam’s consistent, drastic and effective measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that the Vietnamese market remains attractive to Austrian firms, reported Vietnam News Agency.