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Vo Tri Thanh *Vo Tri Thanh Viet Nam has delivered its economic data in the first quarter. The overall picture is still optimistic with the gross domestic product (GDP) expanding nearly 4.5 per cent – among the best performers in the world. However, is this result good enough for the Southeast Asian country to securely triumph over its target set for the whole year? The first quarter growth, though in the same range as the last quarter of 2020 which also stood at 4.48 per cent, was up from the 3.68 per cent recorded in the first quarter of last year. The renewed outbreak of COVID-19 in some parts of the country, including the capital city of Ha Noi, adversely affected the first-quarter's performance which fell below the Government’s expectation of 5.12 per cent and was lower than the 5.7 per cent expected by Bloomberg’s economists. Despite that, Viet Nam has been widely praised for its economic achievements given all the uncertainty about the prolonged pandemic and uneven recovery globally. Viet Nam is still set to outperform most of the region. Key indicators in the first three months have partly reflected Viet Nam’s good recovery. Exports remained the country’s key economic growth driver with a value of US$77.4 billion during January-March, a rise of 22 per cent year-on-year. Viet Nam ran a trade surplus of more than $2 billion in the first quarter. Pledged foreign direct investment (FDI) surged by 18.5 per cent year-on-year to $10.3 billion while disbursed FDI increased by 6.5 per cent to $4.1 billion. Industrial production was expected to expand 6.5 per cent during the period, especially the main drivermanufacturing – electronic equipment, phones and accessories – climbing 9.5 per cent. The number of new businesses fell by 1.4 per cent and their total registered capital rose by 27.5 per cent. Other sectors including agro-forestry-fishery, services sector, disbursement of public investment and State revenue improved significantly. Meanwhile, …

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Representative of Viet Beer signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vietnam General Administration of Physical Education and Sports Vietnam will host the 31st SEA Games and 11 th Para Games in Hanoi starting from November 21. This regional spectacle presents Vietnam with the chance to convey its uniqueness as a nation as it hosts as well as competes. It is also an opportunity to improve the nation's branding as SEA Games welcomes 11 countries to compete in 40 sports and 526 competitive events while the Para Games features 11 sports. Tran Duc Phan, deputy general director of Vietnam Sports Administration, gives remark at the conference on sponsorship promotion for the forthcoming sporting events “ Regional sporting events like SEA Games and Para Games play a crucial role in presenting Vietnam to international audience. This requires concerted efforts by multiple stakeholders. Partnering with sponsors like Bia Viet will go a long way towards ensuring the outstanding success of these events,” said Tran Duc Phan, deputy general director of Vietnam Sports Administration cum vice president of the SEA Games 31 and ASEAN Para Games 11 organising committee. SEA Games and Para Games will put on display Vietnam’s dedicated spirit reflected in its hosting of the events and its athletes’ commitment. SEA Games and Para Games will put on display Vietnam’s dedicated spirit reflected in its hosting of the events and its athletes’ commitment. Bia Viet, created to honour the national spirit, has aptly become an official sponsor of these regional sports events. The sponsorship amount will be finalised and announced this June. Speaking at the sponsorship signing ceremony, Alexander Koch, HEINEKEN Vietnam’s managing director, on behalf of Bia Viet, said, “We are honoured to become an official sponsor of the 31st SEA Games and 11th Para Games, which have been made possible thanks to the government’s successful management of the COVID-19 …

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An apartment building in Hà Nội was locked down on May 2 after a positive COVID-19 case living here was confirmed. — VNA/VNS Photo Phạm Kiên HÀ NỘI — The COVID-19 quarantine period in Việt Nam has been officially extended to 21 days. Mandatory centralised quarantine for entries into the country and direct contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases will be extended from the current 14 days to 21 days, and the new regulation takes effect from Wednesday, Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long announced on Wednesday afternoon. The decision was made after consultation with epidemiologists and virologists in light of new variants of the virus prompting revisions to our knowledge of disease incubation time, he said. The new protocol aims to “protect the community from the spread of coronavirus” amid recent cases found positive following the completion of 14-day quarantine, Long said. The health minister requested local health departments and centres for disease control to strictly comply with centralised quarantine protocols to avoid cross-infection within quarantine facilities and transfer people who have completed centralised quarantine to the authorities in their residence. The follow-up medical observation period at home for those who have completed centralised quarantine will be cut from two weeks to seven days. People who return from quarantine facilities should make daily health declarations with local medical workers. If they show signs of fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, tiredness or loss of taste, they must go to the closest health clinic for guidance, a dispatch from the health ministry from earlier this morning, which still put the quarantine period at 14-day but provided tightened regulations, said. They are not allowed to leave their houses or places of residence. If they need to go out for work or other necessary purposes, they must report to local police and medical staff and strictly follow basic prevention measures. Health …

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