Of which, export goods value totaled US$282.65 billion, an increase of 7 percent while import goods turnover reached US$262.7 billion, up 3.7 percent over the previous year. Therefore, the country's merchandise trade balance in 2020 had a surplus of US$19.95 billion, being the highest level in five consecutive years of trade surplus since 2016. However, Vietnam's trade surplus in 2020 mainly came from FDI enterprises with the trade surplus of US$33.87 billion while domestic enterprises had a trade surplus of more than US$13.9 billion. According to the Office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, since the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in 2019 was enforced, two-way merchandise trade between Canada and Vietnam in 2020 grew significantly reaching US$5.1 billion, up 6.6 percent over 2019 although the world has been in the context of impact from the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak and global economic recession. Textile and garment, … [Read more...] about Vietnam trade surplus reaches nearly US$20 billion in 2020
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WHO Representative praises Việt Nam’s COVID-19 fight
WHO recognises Việt Nam’s active participation in this global effort with a candidate vaccine being developed in Việt Nam, and acknowledges one of them have already started clinical trial phase 1 and others are also shown well progress to start the clinical trial soon. This is really impressive. … [Read more...] about WHO Representative praises Việt Nam’s COVID-19 fight
Founder of Got It wants to teach coding to Vietnamese children
Vietnamese students win five gold medals at Int’l Olympiad of Metropolises All eight Vietnamese students from Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted have claimed medals, including five golds, one silver, and two bronzes, at the fifth International Olympiad of Metropolises (IOM). … [Read more...] about Founder of Got It wants to teach coding to Vietnamese children
Young Vietnamese build open resource aiming to generate positive social change
The students, all following the IPL Enlightened Leadership Program – a course with a full-tuition scholarship provided by non-profit liberal-education school OpenEdu Initiative, are planning these days to unveil a website with all their materials in mid-February. … [Read more...] about Young Vietnamese build open resource aiming to generate positive social change
Discovering Tham Phay mysterious cave in Bac Kan
Right at the entrance to the cave are rocks shaped like the teeth of a giant dinosaur, below is an underground stream with a shallow and moderate flow. While the stream inside is quite wide, the water in some places is about 1.5m deep. In many places, the water erosion process forms yellow and white stalactites with many beautiful and mysterious shapes. … [Read more...] about Discovering Tham Phay mysterious cave in Bac Kan