Vietnam has signaled its readiness to eliminate import tariffs on U.S. goods as it urgently seeks to delay President Donald Trump’s looming 46% levy on its exports, a move that underscores the high stakes of his aggressive tariff strategy. This development comes as Trump’s sweeping trade policies, announced earlier this week, threaten to upend global
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At the Second National Dialogue on Vietnam Food Systems, attendants including World Bank and UNRC representatives shared the challenges that Vietnam is coping with the progress to form and develop food systems.
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The World Bank affirmed its support to Vietnam’s recovery efforts today by approving two development policy operations (DPO), totaling $321.5 million.
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Pham Minh Chinh, the prime minister of Vietnam, has asked the country’s central bank to conduct a study of cryptocurrency and pilot the implementation of a blockchain-based currency within the next two years.
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I shuddered with fear when something slippery wrapped around my leg while I was swimming in the open sea in Con Dao – a remote island in the South of Vietnam. For a brief moment, it conjured up a scene in Steven Spielberg’s thriller Jaws in which a character was pulled down under the water
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A pilot program using e-payment helped facilitate safer, faster and more convenient transfer of social benefits for financially excluded and underserved residents in Cao Bang province in the northern part of Vietnam.
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Southeast Asia’s e-commerce industry has seen rapid growth in recent years, and leading the momentum is Lazada, Alibaba Group’s flagship online marketplace in the region.
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China and 14 other countries agreed Sunday to set up the world’s largest trading bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a deal many in Asia are hoping will help hasten a recovery from the shocks of the pandemic.
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Floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Molave in Vietnam's central and central highlands regions have left 27 people dead, 50 missing and 67 injured as of Saturday morning, the country's Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said.
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