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The opening five months of 2021 saw Vietnam’s tea exports to China and India rise considerably, recording increases of 87.7% and 457.5% year on year respectively, the Voice of Vietnam reported according to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee said that the 2021 Thieu lychee crop has brought over 6.8 trillion VND (over 296 million USD) in revenues from fruit sales and related services for the province.

Germany’s crane supplier Kocks Ardelt Kranbau on July 8 signed a contract for the supply of container cranes with Dinh Vu Petroleum Service Port JSC of Vietnam, reported Vietnam News Agency.

According to DBS Bank experts, Vietnam’s economy would grow from 6-6.5 percent in the next decade, according to Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnamese scientist Nguyen Hoang Minh has won the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Research Award for Young Scientists in 2021.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has been certified with the highest 5-Star COVID-19 Airline Safety Rating for the safety measures and improved hygiene processes introduced by the firm to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus, reported Vietnam News Agency.

The Ministry of Public Security has promulgated a circular regarding the issuing of e-passports, with this policy set to take effect on August 14.

Despite impacts from two waves of COVID-19 outbreaks in the first half of this year, especially on industrial hubs, Vietnam still posted gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5.64 percent and its export revenue rose 28.4 percent over the same period last year, reported Vietnam News Agency.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said that Vietnam’s aquatic product export in the first half of 2021 exceeded US$4.1 billion.

Vietnam is considering launching a pilot scheme aimed at welcoming back foreign travelers to leading tourist destinations, providing that they have certified vaccine passports, with the southern island of Phu Quoc set to be the first location to open, reported VOV.

Twenty-five tonnes of green-skinned mangoes from Mai Son district, Son La province have just been exported to the Australian market, reported Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 5.64 percent in the first half of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on June 29, reported Vietnam News Agency.

Authorities and people of some German states presented 190,000 COVID-19 quick test kits to Vietnam, which were transported to Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on June 28 afternoon.

According to a new decision of Ministry of Health, all travelers will be placed into a concentrated quarantine facility for a period of seven days upon their arrival, in line with relevant COVID-19 guidelines.

According to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF), northern and north-central provinces of Vietnam will be hit by another heat wave that is due to begin this weekend and last several days.

More than three tonnes of lychee from the northern province of Bac Giang has been exported to Germany via the e-commerce platform Voso, reported Vietnam News Agency.

More than 3 tonnes of lychee from the northern province of Bac Giang has been exported to Germany via the e-commerce platform Voso, reported Vietnam News Agency.

The national population data centre and the system for making, granting, and managing citizen identity cards made debut on June 22, and they will officially come into operation on July 1.

Over the past days, in Hanoi, more than 600 members of foreign diplomatic missions and United Nations organizations in Vietnam have received COVID-19 vaccine shots.

Vietnam’s stock market has recently set a record with 1 billion USD in daily transactions, making it the second most liquid market in Southeast Asia, according to the British site Proactive.

Vietnam were placed in the No. 6 seed group, together with Lebanon, among six seed groups for the upcoming draw of the 2022 FIFA World Cup’s third Asian qualifiers, reported Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam-Laos trade expanded in the first five months of 2021 after a decline triggered by COVID-19, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Laos, reported Vietnam News Agency.

Nguyen Van Thai, Director of Save Vietnam's Wildlife, has become the first Vietnamese wildlife conservationist and the only Asian so far to receive the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize - the world’s most prestigious award for grassroots environmental activists, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Lychees grown in Tan Yen district, the northern province of Bac Giang have made their way to stores in Japan this year.

State budget collection was estimated to reach 98.6 trillion VND in May, pushing total revenue in the first five months of 2021 to 667.9 trillion VND (nearly 29 billion USD), equivalent to 49.7 percent of the yearly estimate, up 15.2 percent year on year, Vietnam News Agency reported based on statistics released by the Ministry of Finance.

Export value of vegetables and fruits nationwide reached 400 million USD in May 2021, a year-on-year rise of 48.3%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Russia has become the largest pork supplier of Vietnam when collecting 130.5 million USD from exporting 63,500 tonnes of pork and viscera to the ASEAN country in 2020, equivalent to 25 percent of Vietnamese pork imports.

Exports of wood and timber products surged 42 percent year-on-year to reach a record high of over 6.42 billion USD in the first five months of 2021 despite global supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to customs data, reported VNA.

More than 6,000 volunteers have registered for the third phase of human trials of homegrown Nano Covax vaccine, which was scheduled to begin on June 8, Vietnam News Agency reported according to the Military Medical University (MMU) under the Defence Ministry.

Over VND26 trillion worth of tax and land lease fee payments have been extended or delayed to support enterprises, organisations, household businesses and individuals affected by the COVID-19 pandemic during one month since the implementation of the Government Decree 52/2021/ND-CP, reported Nhan Dan News.