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Illustrative image (Photo: baoquocte.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - Foreign investors maintained their trust in Vietnam despite countless difficulties last year and the country is viewed as a safe destination for development, a recent forum in Hanoi heard. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vietnam Economic Times co-held the Connections for Development Forum 2021 held late last month, with the theme “Seizing New Opportunities for Localities and Businesses”. Addressing the forum, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh said that Vietnam is emerging as an attractive investment destination in Asia and its nation brand value is growing at the fastest rate in the world, rising nine places to 33rd in the top 100 nation brand rankings. The FDI sector has become an important driver of Vietnam’s economic growth, with its contribution to GDP rising considerably, he noted. As of December 2020, Vietnam had a total of 33,070 FDI projects worth over 384 billion USD, with 231.86 billion USD, or … [Read more...] about Vietnam – A safe destination for development of FDI

Foreign diplomats and experts at home and abroad gathered to figure out the potentials, advantages as well as challenges, shortages and solutions for the development of the capital's cultural industry in the coming time. Hanoi is trying its best to create a favorable environment and ecosystem for the innovation and development of the cultural industry, said Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Van Phong. Making a speech at a seminar on the city’s cultural industry development in the 2021-25 period, with a vision to 2045, held in Hanoi on June 18, Phong said the capital city is actively seeking cooperation from creative organizations and individuals to promote the inheritance and development of the culture of the thousand-year-old capital. Domestic and foreign artists joined a parade around the pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hanoi's recognition as a “City for Peace” by UNESCO in 2019. Photo: Kinh te … [Read more...] about Hanoi to promote cultural industry development

Smart traffic monitoring and operation centre in HCM City. Viet Nam targets to form a digital Government by 2025. — VNA/VNS Photo Tien Luc Every citizen in Viet Nam will have a digital identity with a QR Code by 2025 in an effort to promote the development of digital Government. This will enable citizens, enterprises and other organisations to participate in the operation of Government agencies to improve transparency and service quality as well as improving social values. This was a key point in the e-Government development strategy towards building a digital Government in the 2021-25 period approved early this week. The strategy aimed to complete the development targets of e-Government by the end of this year to serve the formation of digital Government by 2025. As mentioned in the strategy, e-Government included online meetings, paperless document processing, contactless administrative procedures and cashless payments. Digital Government was a broader definiton, which … [Read more...] about Every citizen to have QR Code by 2025 in an effort to develop digital Government

Green growth and stable development are the orientation of the tourism industry in the coming time. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued Decision 933/QD-TTg approving the tourism system planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2045, fostering tourism development and environment protection. Accordingly, the planning must comply with the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and regulations on socio-economic development, sustainable marine economy, and tourism growth strategy until 2030. The Tra su cajuput forest in An Giang province. Photo: Thuy Linh The planning aims to achieve sustainable green tourism, ensuring tourism growth and the conservation and promotion of the values of natural and cultural resources, creating tourism products imbued with national identity, protecting the environment, and promoting the potential and advantages of tourism in each region. At the same time, it must derive from practical demands, meet the … [Read more...] about Vietnam targets environmentally friendly tourism development

This will contribute to promoting the strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries and for the sake of their peoples, Ngan said. She agreed with the RoK Speaker that the friendship and cooperation between the two countries have witnessed remarkable strides and become even closer since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1992, especially in the fields of politics, economy, culture, and people-to-people exchange. Bilateral relations have been developing comprehensively in all fields, Ngan said, adding that Vietnam and the RoK have become leading partners of each other in various realms. The top legislator spoke highly of the state visit to Vietnam by RoK President Moon Jae-in in March 2018, which, she said, was an important highlight in the development of the bilateral rapport. The maintenance of high-level visits across all channels, from the State and National Assembly to the Government, has significant meaning in enhancing the multi-faceted cooperation … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s National Assembly keen to develop relations with RoK top legislator