Tìm kiếm: 7 months

Footwear exports reached US$730 million in April alone, bringing the total export turnover of the products in the first four months of this year to nearly US$2.9 billion, up 21.9% on a year-on-year basis.

Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus of 683 million USD in the first four months of the year, according to head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Planning Department Nguyen Tien Vy at a meeting in Hanoi on May 5.

According to the General Statistics Office, Vietnam has welcomed an estimated 3.07 million foreign visitors in the first four months of the year, an increase of 27.3% compared to the same period last year.

Vietnam grossed US$9.69 billion from selling agro-forestry and seafood products abroad in the first four months of 2014, a year-on-year increase of 14 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

According to the General Statistics Office, the total number of international visitors to Vietnam in the first three months of 2014 has been estimated at 2,327,925, an increase of 29.3% over the same period last year.

Over VND129 trillion (roughly US$6.06 billion) was collected for the State budget in the first two months of 2014, a 12.9% year-on-year increase and equivalent to 26.6% of the year's estimate, according to the Ministry of Finance.

An increasing number of foreign tourists found their way to Vietnam in the first two months of the year, offering a boost to the economy.

Trade surplus in the first two months of 2014 was estimated at US$244 million, equivalent to 1.2% of total export revenue, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Total trade turnover between Vietnam and Japan over the first eleven months this year reached more than USD22.9 billion, a year-on-year rise of 1.7 percent, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Vietnam created a breakthrough in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 11 months of 2013, contributing to affirming attractiveness of the country's investment environment and efforts in the improving its environment.

2013 is set to be a bumper year for the tourism sector as it has already welcomed 6.8 million visitors in the first eleven months so far, which represents an increase of 10.2 percent over the same period last year, says Nhan Dan Online.

The socio-economic performance over the past 11 months has recorded significant successes, including stabilizing the macro-economy, keeping inflation at a lower rate than in 2012 and maintaining a growth rate at 5.4%, stressed PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

Export revenue from the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries was estimated at US$25.25 billion in the first eleven months of 2013.

Vietnam achieved a trade surplus of US$10.8 billion with the European Union in the first nine months, accounting for 60.6% of its exports to the EU.

Viet Nam shipped over 5.7 million tons of rice and earned nearly US$ 2.5 billion in export revenue in the first ten months of this year, according to the Viet Nam Food Association (VFA).

Seafood export turnover during the Jan-Oct period reached USD5.5 billion, a year-on-year rise of 7.3 percent, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP).

Number of foreign tourists to Vietnam in October reached more than 628,000 arrivals, up 15.1 percent over a year previous, and bringing the total number over the past ten months to over 6.1 million, up 10.4 percent year on year, according the General Statistics Office.

The Vietnamese cabinet convened for its monthly meeting in Hanoi on October 26, focusing on the implementation of socio-economic development tasks in the first ten months of this year and discussing measures to achieve the country's yearly targets.

Pledges of foreign direct investment (FDI) were estimated at US$15 billion in the first nine months of 2013, exceeding the target of US$13-14 billion for the whole year.

The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 5.14 % in the first nine months of this year, according to a report released by the Ministry of Planning and Investment on September 24.

Vietnam earned nearly USD280 million from shrimp exports in August, a year-on-year increase of 38 percent, bringing the total shrimp export value to USD1.67 billion in the first eight months of this year.

Vietnam exported almost 4.7 million tonnes of rice in the first eight months of this year, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).