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Two projects worth a total VND4 trillion (USD173.91 million) to upgrade runways at Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat international airports will be started by the end of this month.

Singapore has directly imported Vietnamese litchi for the first time.

Up to 140 firms have joined a programme to promote tourism products of the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministries, agencies and localities to do their best to reach the highest possible socio-economic targets this year.

The Ministry of Transport has refused a request to advance USD50 million to a Chinese general contractor for a Hanoi metro project.

A Hanoi leader has pledged to create a stable environment for Thai businesses to engage in long-term investment and business operations in the city, calling for more firms from the neighbouring country to invest in Hanoi.

Vietnamese airlines have resumed nearly full capacity on domestic routes and are ready for international routes once the virus outbreak is curbed.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 30 requested the southern key economic region to strive to become a powerful and prosperous region by 2035, ten years ahead of the deadline for the same goal for the whole Vietnam.

Vietnamese agricultural, fishery and food businesses were updated on the Singaporean market at an online conference held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) and the Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore on May 29.

The HCM City Department of Health has issued guidelines for medical surveillance of foreign experts coming from abroad as part of COVID-19 prevention efforts.

Vietnam is expected to see a new foreign direct investment wave as more foreign companies plan to move investment into the country.

Vietnam will allow the import of live pigs for the first time in a bid to counter the skyrocketing live hog prices in the domestic market, said an agricultural official.

The consumer price index (CPI) in May decreased by 0.03 percent against the previous month and 1.24 percent against last December, but increased by 4.39 percent year-on-year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on May 29.

Pork prices in Vietnam have kept on increasing, reaching the record high because of local supply shortages.

A coffee shop in District 1, HCM City, allows customers to exchange a book for an item on the menu.

The retail prices of oil and petrol in Vietnam have increased for a second consecutive time after the Covid-19 pandemic’s initial wave.

A conference took place in Hanoi on May 27 to collect recommendations on regulatory, policy and administrative procedure reforms to support post-coronavirus business recovery.

The HCM City Department of Transport has asked the Department of Finance to give an additional VND161bn (USD6.8m) to subsidise the public bus system in 2020.

Many key works in HCM City, including a VND10 trillion (USD434.78 million) anti-flooding project, are expected to be finished this year.