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Smooth transition, economic stimulus, stronger strategic partnerships and deeper international engagement should be high on Vietnam’s post Party Congress agenda, experts say. Vietnam is in pole position for implementing this agenda at a fast clip, they add. On February 1, the 13th Party Congress closed in Hanoi. The Communist Party Central Committee elected Nguyen Phu Trong, 77, for his third five-year term as Party chief. Later, in May, a general election will be held for the 15th tenure of the National Assembly, Vietnam’s national legislative body. The National Assembly will then elect the state president, prime minister and the parliament’s…

The Ministry of Construction (MOC) has joined forces with a number of ministries and branches to draft a government resolution on solutions to encourage the development of low-cost commercial housing projects. Low-cost commercial housing projects are projects with apartments with an area of less than 70 square meters and selling prices of no more than VND20 million per square meter. Commenting about the real estate market, MOC said most real estate firms focus on commercial housing projects targeting moderately high and high income earners. This has resulted in an oversupply of high-end products, and a shortage of social housing and…

Vu The Binh, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Tourism Association, talked about what may be in store for the sector this year. Vu The Binh, deputy chairman of Vietnam Tourism Association.  Vietnam’s tourism sector posted historically-low figures last year in almost all indicators. What are your notes of the last 12 months? The number of foreign visitors in 2020 was down by nearly 80 per cent and domestic tourists by half. Vietnamese heading overseas tumbled 90 per cent. Some 40-60 per cent of workers in the sector lost their jobs. Of all the tourism enterprises hit hard by the pandemic, I…

Society18 mins ago Vietnam reports 37 new locally-infected cases in coronavirus hotspot Source: Tien Phong News

A fireworks performance in Hanoi. The Hanoi Party Committee is mooting allowing only one high-altitude fireworks show instead of the 30 that were earlier planned for the upcoming Lunar New Year’s Eve – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – The Hanoi Party Committee, at a meeting on February 2, decided to cancel a plan to set off fireworks in 30 districts and towns in the city and came up with an alternative plan to display high-altitude fireworks for the upcoming Lunar New Year’s Eve without gatherings due to the Covid-19 outbreak in the city. The fireworks display will be broadcast live on…

The new Covid-19 outbreak on days close to Tet could seriously affect the Hanoi flower market. Flower growers are worried as prices have dropped dramatically. Nguyen Thi Tuong and her flowers The flower village of Tay Tuu and the flower market of Quang An are still looking forward to merchants. Tay Tuu, the busiest flower village in Hanoi, is now quiet and deserted. Looking at the flower beds she has been growing for a year, which may have to be thrown away, Nguyen Thi Tuong, the owner of a flower garden in Tay Tuu Village, said she had sold all…

Check out the news you should not miss today: Society — Authorities in Hai Duong Province, located in northern Vietnam, on Wednesday decided to put a whole commune with around 14,200 people in isolation in 21 days, starting from 6:00 pm the same day, after two locals with a complicated travel history tested positive for COVID-19.  — Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong on Wednesday commented that the city’s COVID-19 situation is not stressful at the moment and the southern metropolis will maintain festive events to celebrate the coming Lunar New Year, which falls on February 12, as…

Hanoi’s cold weather tends to make everyone crave hot snacks in the afternoon, and one of the most popular is fried banana pancakes. The fried banana pancake is a popular snack in the late afternoon among Hanoians. – Photo 2dep.vn It is not hard to find any street-side eatery selling banana pancakes in the city. The set-up of every stall in Hanoi seems to look alike, with a bowl of flour mixed with sliced banana, a big frying pan full of oil and a rack displaying attractive golden-coloured cakes. A fried banana pancake stall on Hang Dieu Street is one of the…

Nguyễn Đình Thắng, deputy chairman of the Việt Nam Association for Information Processing, speaks at a digital transformation seminar held in HCM City on Tuesday. — Photo HCM CITY — Vietnamese enterprises, especially small and medium-sized ones, should embrace digital transformation to survive but also improve their production and trading processes and business efficiency in the industry 4.0 era, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday. Trần Phú Lữ, director of the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City (ITPC), said Việt Nam has some 800,000 enterprises, of which SMEs account for 95 per…

Business2 hours ago Đắk Lắk approves two wind-power plants, worth $96 million Source: Tien Phong News