Every month, nearly 10,000 enterprises suspend business for a definite time, stop operating, wait for dissolution procedures, and complete dissolution procedures. That is the number announced by Vietnam’s General Statistics Office and announced by the state-controlled media on October 29.…
The Vietnam Aviation Business Association warned that if Vietnam does not completely abolish the requirement of a seven-day concentrated quarantine for foreign travelers, it will be difficult to restore the number of international visitors as before the COVID-19 pandemic. Inside…
Speaking at the East Asia Summit (EAS) on the evening of October 27, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh mentioned the security issue of the South China Sea (Vietnam calls it the East Sea), saying that maintaining peace and stability…
In a phone call on October 26, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recommended that the Vietnamese government commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 and continue to take steps to phase out coal electricity as well as…
Many factories and workshops in industrial zones in southern Vietnam are facing a paradox: reopening production but lack of human resources. Without consistent and smooth epidemic prevention measures from the central to local levels to facilitate the resumption of production…
Vietnam’s Health Minister said it was necessary to be vigilant to prevent a new outbreak. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Long issued the warning as authorities evaluated 10 days to implement a resolution described as “safe adaptation, flexibility, effective control of the…
The Washington Post on October 25 reported that Zuckerberg personally signed a pledge with Vietnam’s authoritarian government to limit so-called “anti-state” posts. Answering the BBC at the end of 2020 on this issue, Facebook admitted that it had to block…
The Vietnamese government has just issued a decision to dismiss seven Coast Guard generals, including Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Son, just a few weeks after the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s Central Inspection Commission disciplined and expelled the Party for…
“From April to now, it’s been closed, almost half a year people can’t do anything. Everyone has to spend their savings… It’s hard to do anything because people don’t have the money to buy it.” That is the opinion of…
Although Vietnam is not officially a member of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), it received more than $16.3 billion in a China-funded projects in the 2000-2017 period. Although China’s debt burden is not as heavy as that of many…
