The Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs is currently developing criteria to classify ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the 2026–2030 period, aiming to identify priority regions for investment and ensure fair and effective allocation of resources.
In 2025, the northern province of Bac Giang is prioritising the effective implementation of programmes and policies targeting local ethnic minority groups, according to Truong Van Bao, deputy head of the provincial Board for Ethnic Minority Affairs.
The Government, ministries, sectors, localities, and the business community have concentrated on speeding up cross-border e-commerce development in the context that exports serve as a significant growth driver of the national economy.
The e-commerce market of Vietnam was robust in the first quarter of this year with total revenue of the top five platforms, including Shopee, TikTok Shop, Lazada, Tiki and Sendo, reaching more than 71 trillion VND (2.79 billion USD), an increase of 79% over the same period last year, according to a recent report by Metric.
A trialogue on biodiversity and ecosystem solutions took place in Hanoi on October 4-6, gathering managers, scientists, and representatives of conservation organisations from Vietnam and seven countries, including Cameroon, Colombia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago.
The press contributes to creating consensus in building, perfecting, and implementing policies of social insurance (SI), health insurance (HI), and unemployment insurance (UI), Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Deputy Director General Dao Viet Anh said on August 8.
The Government has called on the Ministry of Finance for policies to support enterprises, including exemption and reduction of taxes and fees, in 2023.
The strengthening of policy communication for Overseas Vietnamese helps Vietnamese compatriots to share ideas, thoughts and aspirations, contributing to strengthening the national solidarity bloc.
The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) hosted a dialogue with Japanese businesses on the implementation of social and health insurance policies, in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau on October 11.
The northern province of Bac Ninh has been working to improve local governance indicators, including the provincial competitiveness index (PCI), the provincial Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), the Satisfaction Index of Public Administration Services (SIPAS), the Public Administration Reform (PAR) Index, and the Digital Transformation Index (DTI).
As of September 7, more than 4.6 million labourers nationwide had received housing rent support worth over 3.1 trillion VND (over 131.46 million USD) under a recent decision of the Prime Minister, equivalent to 83.3% of the total approved registrations.
The Finance Ministry said on September 6 that Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded Vietnam’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to Ba2 from Ba3 and changed the outlook to stable from positive.
Appropriate policies and regulations are needed to help fully exploit the untapped potential in developing the maritime economy, which plays an essential role in the socio-economic development of Vietnam, according to insiders.
Many policies for ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, and extremely disadvantaged areas were developed and implemented during the 2013-2020 period with the coordination between the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs and the Vietnam Farmers Union (VFU).
Vietnam, as Chair of ASEAN in 2020, is exerting every effort to boost the building of a cohesive and responsive ASEAN Community so that the bloc can deal with all possible challenges and difficulties, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has said.
Vietnam would welcome a new foreign direct investment capital flow after the COVID-19 pandemic with many favorable opportunities seriously in order to tap those opportunities effectively. Economic experts have said at a seminar on new FDI flow held recently in Hanoi.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has given the nod to the policies of developing three golf courses with a total investment of more than 3 trillion VND (129.3 million USD).
The new polices including regulations on customs supervision and inspection of goods in transit through ASEAN Customs Transit System, and management and use of international emergency aid for disaster recovery, among others are fresh policies which will take effect in June, 2020.
Numerous new policies will take effect from May, 2020, including not using traffic violated vehicles and strict punishment for water resource violations.
Hanoi has consistently implemented the policy of allocating large amount of resources to the development of mountainous and ethnic minority areas in the city towards narrowing the gap between those areas and other localities, it was reported at a conference on October 3.
