Garments are one of Vietnam's key export items to the US. (Photo: VOV) Minister Councilor Bui Huy Son of the Vietnamese Embassy in the US in charge of the Vietnamese Trade Office there said Vietnam’s exports to the US achieved a growth rate of over 24%, while US exports to Vietnam also grew by nearly 14%. This is a very positive result, demonstrating the ability to seize and take advantage of market opportunities between the two economies, Son told Washington-based VOV correspondents in an interview recently. According to the official, the import-export goods between the two sides are highly complementary. Vietnam mainly exports to the US electronics and compponents, garments, footwear, and farm produce, including seafood, while it imports from the market raw materials for production, such as cotton, timber, pharmaceuticals and temperate fruits, said Son. He admitted that it is not easy to obtain such impressive growth in bilateral trade as the COVID-19 outbreak disrupted global
Some works at the exhibition "Mua Trong Vuon" (Photo: NDO) An exhibition titled "Mua Trong Vuon" (Seasons in Garden) by female painters Trang Thanh Hien and Nguyen My Ngoc opened at Vietnam University of Fine Arts (42 Yet Kieu) on January 1. After many delays due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the exhibition was displayed on New Year's Day to mark the beginning of new hopes. Both artists are lecturers at Vietnam Fine Arts University; Trang Thanh Hien is a lecturer at the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at and Nguyen My Ngoc is a lecturer at the Department of Graphics. While Trang Thanh Hien brings to the exhibition a selection of works inspired by flowers with wood carving materials, Nguyen My Ngoc's paintings find inspiration in rubber engravings combined with monoprinting. The nearly 80 graphic paintings, with trees, leaves, flowers, and hidden images of women, are lyrical, feminine and blooming in artistic creation. The exhibition will run unti
Illustrative image (Source: VNA)The event will be co-organised by the NA’s Committee for Economic Affairs, the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.According to Nguyen Minh Son, deputy head of the NA’s Committee for Economic Affairs, the forum will review Vietnam’s economic development in 2020-2021, and policies adopted to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.Specifically, it will give insight into the trend of economic restructuring and changes in production and business models due to pandemic impacts, along with policies that have been rolled out in the world to tackle COVID-19, thus withdrawing lessons for Vietnam in this regard.Delegates are expected to propose solutions, focusing on both short and long-term economic policies, he said, stressing that apart from economic matters, the forum will touch upon social and environmental issues.The forum is set to contribute to institutionalising the Resolution issued at the 13th Nation