“Growth and development is a marathon, not a sprint,” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasised and set the goal of raising Vietnam to become a new "economic tiger" in Asia.

Improved global and domestic conditions offered promising prospects for the Vietnamese economy in 2014-15, although significant challenges lay ahead, agreed speakers at a conference in Ha Noi yesterday.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov pushed economic cooperation issues to the top of his agenda during a two-day visit to Vietnam late last week.

Following a resilient performance during COVID-19, experts predict that Vietnam’s economy will still maintain its appeal despite global headwinds in 2023.

Across Asia, governments face the difficult task of delivering sustained economic recovery while managing the unpredictable transition of COVID-19 from a pandemic to an endemic disease. According to a study by the Asian Development Bank, economic losses for developing Asia were estimated at 6.0-9.5 per cent of regional GDP in 2020 and 3.6-6.3 per cent in 2021, largely from declines in domestic demand, tourism, and from global spillovers. In the early stages of the pandemic, cloud computing powered a rapid shift to remote work and distance learning. Now, digital technology – and the cloud computing services that underpin most digitisation – can catalyse economic recovery by enabling organisations to adapt nimbly to ever-changing circumstances.

Vietnamese and RoK scientists and managers gathered at a seminar in Hanoi on August 25 to discuss the Vietnam-RoK economic cooperation and prospects until 2020.

US-based Heritage Foundation has just published the Index of Economic Freedom 2021, featuring Vietnam for the very first time in the ranks of Moderately Free economies.

Despite the good outcomes of the bilateral cooperation, Vietnam and Laos will have to accelerate cooperation in investment, trade exchange, and support building institutions.

The seventh Vietnam-Singapore Ministerial Meeting on Economic Connectivity, presided over by Vietnamese Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and Singaporean Minister of Industry and Trade Lim Hng Kiang, took place in Hanoi on July 4.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison chaired a meeting on exchanging and promoting co-operation opportunities between Vietnamese and Australian businesses in Ha Noi on Friday.

Economic cooperation between Vietnam and Australia has seen strong expansion over the years. Australia is now the eighth largest trade partner of Vietnam and ranked 19th among 125 countries and territories investing in Vietnam.

Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Co-operation Sigrid Kaag visited Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on February 6-7, 2018, aiming to enhance trade and investment co-operation between the Netherlands and Vietnam.

State President Truong Tan Sang and French President Francois Hollande have agreed to turn economic ties between Viet Nam and France into a key pillar in bilateral relationship.

Vietnam’s economic growth accelerated in the last two quarters of 2014 as banks improved their credit growth and rising foreign investment boosted exports.

On July 21-22, Fleur Pellerin, French Minister of State for Foreign Trade, the Promotion of Tourism and French Nationals Abroad will pay a visit to Vietnam to further cement the two nations’ trade and investment ties. She spoke more about these goals to VIR’s Thanh Tung.