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Vietnam’s 2020 export revenue as of August 15 rose 1.8% , reaching US$160.2 billion while imports were estimated at US$150.2 billion, latest customs data has shown. Vietnam has recorded a trade surplus of US$10 billion. That means the country registered a trade surplus of US$10 billion. In the first half of August, Vietnam exported US$12.7 billion worth of goods and imported US$10.8 billion, according to the General Department of Customs. It is worth noting that Vietnam’s export activity has seen signs of a rebound recently. With US$24.87 billion worth of exports, July was the second best-performing month, behind August of 2019, and Vietnam’s exports continues to maintain momentum this month. Top export earners in the first half of August include mobile phones (US$2.58 billion), computers and electronics (US$1.9 billion), textiles (US$1.36 billion), machinery (US$1.11 billion) and footwear (US$652 million). Conversely, Vietnam’s main imports were computers and electronics, machinery, mobile phones and fabrics. …

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A shipment of 500,000 Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine doses touched down in Hanoi on board a Vietnam Airlines aircraft on Sunday, adding to the country’s stock of AstraZeneca and Sputnik V jabs, according to the Ministry of Health. The plane landed from Beijing at Noi Bai International Airport in the Vietnamese capital at 3:10 pm, the national carrier said in a statement. The shipment also includes 502,400 syringes, the Ministry of Health added. The Sinopharm vaccine shots, donated by China, will be used to immunize Chinese nationals in Vietnam, Vietnamese people who want to study or do business in China, and those who reside along the borders with China, the health ministry elaborated. The ministry approved the jab for emergency use in Vietnam on June 3, following similar approvals for AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and Pfizer vaccines. The World Health Organization (WHO) listed the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on May 7, according to a news release posted on the global health agency’s website the same day. The WHO had already given emergency use authorization to AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, and Sinovac vaccines. More than 450 million Sinopharm doses have been supplied to over 70 countries and the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme as yet, the health ministry said. Vietnam has received nearly four million AstraZeneca shots from the COVAX scheme, direct purchase via a local company, and Japan, in addition to 2,000 Sputnik jabs donated by Russia and 500,000 Sinopharm doses in the year to date. The Vietnamese government has administered 2,359,376 AstraZeneca jabs to medical staff and other frontline workers since inoculation began on March 8. It has given two doses to 115,315 people since. Vietnam set a target of securing 150 million vaccine doses and inoculating two-thirds of its population of almost 98 million people this year. So far the health ministry has recorded 13,211 patients, including 9,944 local infections …

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Whenever I reach a new destination I seek out a favourite coffee shop as my headquarters or “HQ.” No idea how I picked up the habit – there is no logical reason for it. After all these years of roaming around I’ve just picked up a few odd habits I guess, and this is one of them. I need an HQ or I won’t feel settled in. Somewhere where people can find me in the daytime (but since I know nobody, there’s nobody to find me - yet). The criteria are rigid: First, the café must be frequented entirely by locals. Bluntly put, if I wanted to hang out with foreigners I’d have stayed in Western countries instead of coming to Southeast Asia. The gaggles of selfie-snapping tourists from the big cities aren’t my thing either. Secondly, I want a traditional local place, not some corporate, mass-produced experience, where customers queue up at a counter to be served with someone sporting a name tag who wishes them a nice day who definitely doesn’t care what kind of day I have. That’s what I was used to in Western countries and what I came to Vietnam to get away from. My favourite café in Da Lat is so laid back and homey I call it “The Living Room.” The place is tucked away on a little street in the old part of the city, just a single shop hole-in-the-wall. The Living Room has been in business for 30 years, and it definitely looks a bit worse for the wear, but it’s got character. The customers are working class, right up my alley: Tradesmen, motorbike taxi drivers, tourist guides, the odd policeman, shop workers and owners from nearby businesses, bank employees from across the street who sneak over for a quick drink, and a large contingent of giggling lady lottery vendors. I scoped it out a few times before going inside, just to confirm that neither foreigners nor tourists from the big cities are present. And indeed the coast was clear: They’re decidedly more up-market and frequent the trendy places, the safe mainstream choices. The interior layout is simple with long …

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