Vietnam in foreigners’ eyes

An article on Vietnam’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic published on the web page dhakatribune.com of Bangladesh said that Vietnam could offer valuable lessons on how to curb the disease’s spread amid a poor healthcare system and low budget funds.

Son Doong cave in the central province of Quang Binh has been named among 10 of the best virtual tours of the world's natural wonders by British newspaper The Guardian.

British newspaper The Guardian on April 9th posted an article showing admiration and appraisal for artists drawing propaganda posters against COVID-19 in Vietnam.

Senator Tom Cotton, a senator of the Republican Party in Arkansas State, shared the tweet of US President Donald Trump and thanked the Vietnamese people for their support of medical equipment in dealing with COVID-19.

Vietnam's measures against COVID-19 have been applauded by the international media as prompt, drastic and supported by people nationwide.

German and European media have reported high appreciation for Vietnam's donation of face masks to European countries to help them fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Diplomat, a newspaper based in the US, recently published an article which heaps praise of the donation of 550,000 face masks by Vietnam to five European countries in order to support their fight against the (COVID-19) pandemic.

With positive messages and contributing to support the community amid the COVID-19 epidemic, the unique dishes of Vietnamese people are supported by the international media.

Vietnamese businesspersons appearing on the list of world billionaires in 2020 are President of Vingroup Group, Mr. Pham Nhat Vuong; General Director of Vietjet Airlines, Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao; President of Thaco Group, Mr. Tran Ba Duong and President of Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank), Mr. Ho Hung Anh.

(CPV) - 72 percent of German companies in Vietnam intend to keep investing in Vietnam and 27 percent assume an increase in employment. This is the result of AHK World Business Outlook Survey on measuring the business confidence and the impact of coronavirus on German companies worldwide and in Vietnam.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has praised the Vietnamese community based in the Central European country for their efforts in uniting with local people to cope with the ongoing (COVID-19) pandemic, Vietnamese Ambassador Ho Minh Tuan said in a recent interview with a VOV correspondent in the Czech Republic.

Indonesian newspapers and televisions have recently run news on Vietnam’s effective fight against COVID-19 in which they analyzed the Vietnamese Government’s steps in preventing the spread of the global epidemic, saying that Indonesia needs to learn from Vietnam in the prevention.

The Al-Arabiya Arabic website based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Moroccan website Hespress recently published articles appreciating Vietnam's efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) through effective control policies.

(CPV) - Viet Nam’s economic growth rate is expected to slow sharply in 2020, to 4.8%, from the initial supply shock to economic activity from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the subsequent and ongoing drop in demand from Viet Nam’s principal trade and investment partners, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on April 3rd 2020.

Two Irish tourists have written a letter expressing their gratitude to Vietnamese authorities in the central province of Nghe An and promised to return to Vietnam, after having spent 14 days in isolation to prevent COVID-19 in Vietnam as regulated.

With over 200 cases positive for COVID-19, the number is remarkably less than that in a majority of Vietnam’s neighbouring countries, with no fatality so far, while Vietnam has met a lot of obstacles in terms of limited budget, high population density and some weaknesses in the medical system.

Miss Austria Silvia Schachermayer has changed her avatar photo on her Facebook page to include the logo of the Vietnam Ancestral Global Day in response to the project.

The US will stand together with Vietnam in the fight against COVID-19, said US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink in a clip posted on the embassy’s Facebook page on March 31st.

The new survey results published by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi on March 31st of the American Business Community in Vietnam on the impact of COVID-19 showed that US businesses always support and appreciate the Vietnamese Government in the fight against the disease.

Up to 62 percent of respondents in Vietnam say that their government is doing “right amount” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the biggest public survey on COVID-19 conducted by the Berlin-based Dalia Research.

"Vietnam shows how you can contain COVID-19 with limited resources" is the title of an article by senior writer Sean Fleming published on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website on March 30th.

After completing their 14-day quarantine period, 15 Romanian tourists left the quarantine area at Hoi An Beach Resort on March 27th.

The relentless efforts by the Vietnamese Government and people in the fight against COVID-19 over the recent past have been recognised many newspapers and experts around the world.

Mr. Stian Wiik, a Norwegian, sent a handwritten letter expressing his gratitude to health workers who cared for him during his time in isolation in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba Ria -Vung Tau.

Vietnam’s scenery, food and people have left good impressions on foreign tourists, despite the effect of great efforts to fight COVID-19. The word “friendly” will be surely repeated by foreign visitors when they are asked about Vietnam.

Eighteen foreign tourists of the French and Belgian nationals were isolated in the luxurious Hoa Co 5-star resort in Hoi An city of the central province of Quang Nam as they had been detected to having a flight with Covid-19 patients, in a happy and joyful feelings.

According to Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc, the US side has highly appreciated the Vietnamese Government's drastic, transparent and effective prevention of Covid-19, and the country is also considering the possibility of importing some medical materials and equipment from Vietnam to serve Covid-19 prevention in the US.

Financial Times on March 24th ran an article praising Vietnam’s efforts in containing the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, saying the country has proved itself as a model in the work with limited resources but determined leadership.

Vietnam has been applauded by the international media over the past week for the country’s quick and transparent actions to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.

Hong Kong-based Asia Times newspaper assesses that the Party and State of Vietnam had controlled the Covid-19 epidemic urgently, effectively and transparently, in an article posted on March 19th.