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Vietnam's 2025 budget deficit narrows by 15.1% against forecast
The 2025 state budget deficit accounts for only 3.1% of GDP, significantly lower than the projected 3.8%.
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Vietnam pushes EAEU pact update toward $15 billion trade with Russia
Vietnam has called for accelerating negotiations to amend the Vietnam-Eurasian Economic Union Free Trade Agreement (VN-EAEU FTA) to facilitate trade and investment, alongside expanding energy and science-technology cooperation toward a $15 billion bilateral trade target with Russia.
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Vietnam seeks $251 billion to fuel 2027 growth
To achieve its 10 percent economic growth target for 2027, Vietnam must mobilize VND6-6.4 quadrillion ($235-251 billion) in total social investment, as the Government focuses on unlocking resources, fostering new growth drivers, and maintaining macroeconomic stability.
Top leader to attend 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Week in China
Vietnam is one of the few members to have hosted APEC events three times, in 2006, 2017, and upcoming in 2027.
Deepening Vietnam-Russia parliamentary cooperation, turning commitments into concrete results
During talks with Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly Valentina Matviyenko in Hanoi on November 12, NA President Tran Thanh Man urged the two parliamentary bodies to actively coordinate in resolving legal obstacles, thereby facilitating cooperation in economy-trade, investment, energy-oil and gas, science-technology, among others.
Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has a new chairman
Mr. Le Quoc Phong, member of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, was elected as Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee at the age of 48.
Vietnam and UK seek to deepen agricultural and environmental cooperation
The two countries' bilateral agricultural trade reaching $1 billion for the first time in 2025.
Tax revenue from e-commerce reaches nearly $9.4 bln
By the end of 2025, e-commerce sales are estimated to reach approximately $37 billion, making Vietnam the country with the second-fastest e-commerce growth rate in Southeast Asia.
Vietnam establishes separate power price framework for standalone battery energy storage systems
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Decision No. 2987/QD-BCT, approving the power generation price framework for standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for 2026.