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A record high of 1.35 billion USD was poured into Vietnamese startups last year (Illustrative photo: VNA) Fields drawing the highest amount of capital include fintech, game, education, health care and e-commerce, according to the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology. To date, Vietnam has been home to about 3,800 startups, with two unicorns - tech giant VNG Corporation and VNLife Corporation, along with 11 others each valued at more than 100 million USD such as Momo e-wallet and Tiki online marketplace. Of note, Tiki received 258 million USD in funding, VNLife 250 million USD, Sky Mavis 152 million USD and Momo 100 million USD. Vietnam has nearly 70 million Internet users and mobile phone subscribers hit 70 percent of the population (Photo: baodautu.vn) Some startups like Loship, Citics and Sky Mavis successfully called for investment twice in the year, motivating others amid the pandemic. The Vie
As the Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival – the biggest and longest festival of the Vietnamese people – is approaching, Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie shared with the Vietnam News Agency’s reporter about her feeling about Tet and the outcomes of cooperation between the two countries in the recent past as well as prospects of the relationship in the near future. The following is the full text of the interview.
General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith and other senior leaders of Laos sent their congratulatory messages to their Vietnamese counterparts on the occasion of the Lunar New Year Festival.
The Canada-Vietnam Friendship Society (CVFS) on January 29 held a webinar on Vietnam’s foreign policy on the occasion of the 92th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930-2022).