HANOI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Vietnam is looking to raise its economic growth target for 2021 by 0.5 percentage point to 6.5%, although the coronavirus pandemic and adverse weather are potential obstacles ...

HANOI, March 29 (Reuters) - Vietnam's gross domestic product grew 4.48% in the first quarter of 2021 from the same period a year earlier, supported by robust exports, government data released on ...

IT IS A contrarian argument from an improbable contrarian. Vietnam’s economy may be the envy of South-East Asia, having averaged 6% annual growth over the past 15 years, but it is in urgent need of ...

It has been 50 years since Vietnam was reunited after a 25-year war that devastated the country. For the next 15 years, the communist regime made a bad situation worse by encouraging their opponents – ...

Vietnam’s economic rise has been extraordinary. The country has made a triple transition from central planning to a market economy, from import substitution to export-led integration and from extreme ...

The Vietnamese government has set national development goals for the decade ahead, aiming to raise per capita GDP to around US$8,500 by 2030. The target is set under Resolution No. 306 recently issued ...