Healthcare

According to the report, non-key items accounted for much of the first quarter e-commerce growth, with healthcare products in the lead. Specifically, demand for facial masks and hand sanitizers soared by 610 percent and 680 percent in February compared to the previous month. … [Read more...] about Pandemic e-commerce defies boom expectations

“The global COVID-19 outbreak has brought about never-before challenges in our daily lives, and we remain deeply concerned for all those affected by the pandemic. We are committed to playing our part in ensuring continuous food supplies in the country, while maintaining important measures to ensure the health and safety of the community, our employees and all those involved in our operations,” a representative of Tetra Laval Group said. … [Read more...] about Tetra Laval Group donates medical equipment to Hà Nam Province

The Vietnamese Embassy and relevant agencies in the RoK and the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines have worked together to arrange the flight which landed at Đà Nẵng International Airport in central Đà Nẵng City on Wednesday. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese citizens in RoK repatriated

Hanoi (VNA) – With success in containing the spread of COVID-19, Vietnam now holds advantages in economic recovery, according to former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan. He wrote in a recent article that however, there are many unforeseeable factors in the world’s situation that can affect Vietnam. Vietnam is building and on the verge of adopting socioeconomic development plans for 2021-2025 and 2021-2030 and vision towards 2045 in the “new normal situation”, he said. He recalled the regional crisis in 1997, when Vietnam was implementing its 1991-2000 socioeconomic development strategy, the global financial crisis in 2008, during its 2001-2010 strategy, and this pandemic, just as the 2011-2020 plan is coming to an end. The less-than-expected annual GDP growth in the ten-year strategies is mostly attributable to unexpected crises, Khoan said, adding that what will happen over the next five, ten, or 25 years is simply unpredictable. Citing the five … [Read more...] about Vietnam at advantage in economic recovery post-COVID-19: Former Deputy PM

Incomplete data from an ongoing survey has shown some promising findings on the average height of Vietnamese people, with noticeable improvements from a decade ago, according to Truong Hong Son, deputy general secretary of the Vietnam Medical Association. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese are getting taller: expert