Vietnam in foreigners’ eyes

The S&P Global Ratings has announced that it has retained Vietnam’s sovereign credit rating, improving its economic outlook to “positive” from “stable”. Vietnam is the only country in the world to have its outlook improved by Moody’s, S&P and Fitch.

The major Asian news website (Bigasia) on May 25 ran an article "Vietnam has entered a stage of development to meet the aspirations of all people", by Professor Dmitry Mosyakov, Director of the Center for Southeast Asian - Australia – Oceania Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.

Acting Director of the Far Eastern Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Prof. Dr. Aleksey Maslov said that the ability to develop a long-term strategy is the key to the success of the Vietnamese economy despite the difficulties caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and People’s Councils at all levels for 2021-2026 term on May 23 have attracted attention from international media.

According to a recent report by Maybank Kim Eng, ASEAN's leading financial group, Vietnam is leading the economic recovery among the four emerging economies in ASEAN known as CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam), with its exports and production far exceeding before the pandemic.

An article was recenlty published on the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB)’s official website highlighting the journey of President Ho Chi Minh to find a way to liberate his nation and his influence on revolutionary movements of colonial countries around the world.

Germany’s Junge Welt (Young People) newspaper ran an article on May 21 spotlighting the upcoming elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 tenure and the important contributions by the legislature to the country’s economic development over recent years.

Endar T.D. Retnoastuti, a member of the Indonesia-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group, has emphasised the significance of the upcoming general elections to the Vietnamese National Assembly, especially amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

The teachings of President Ho Chi Minh have a special meaning not only for Vietnamese youth, but also for the current generation of young citizens of the Russian Federation.

Recently, Germany’s global social network InterNations released the latest annually held Expat Insider survey results. Accordingly, Vietnam is among the top 10 countries and territories where foreigners are happiest to live and work.

Svetlana Glazunova, daughter of late Honorary Chairman of the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association Evgeny Pavlovich Glazunov (1930-2019), who had a lifelong love for Vietnam and authored many books on President Ho Chi Minh, inheriting his love for the Southeast Asian country, has worked to the promote President Ho Chi Minh’s ideological values in Russia.

(CPV) - 46 percent German businesses had a positive view of the local economic development in 2020, 66 percent expects a significant improvement in 2021.

Vietnam is one of the top countries in the ASEAN region chosen by Japanese enterprises for investment in the near future. So confirmed Mr. Nakajima Takeo, Chief Representative of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Hanoi, when he talked about the business environment in Vietnam.

An article was published on Germany’s Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) newspaper on May 9 highlighting a lawsuit by Vietnamese-French Tran To Nga against multinational companies which produced and sold the toxic chemical Agent Orange (AO) containing dioxin sprayed by US forces during the war in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Professor Vo Tong Xuan has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, by the Japanese Government.

Germany's Stern Newspaper on May 7 reported that a French court is preparing to rule on the historic lawsuit filed by Tran To Nga against multinational companies for producing and selling chemical toxins sprayed by US forces in the war in Vietnam.

Russian scholars have congratulated Vietnam on its historic victory in the Dien Bien Phu campaign on the occasion of its 67th anniversary on May 7, saying it was the most important battle in the first Indochina War.

The phone talk between General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez on May 5 was a highlight of Cuban newspapers on May 6.

While the level of citizens' satisfaction with the Government's COVID-19 crisis response strategy in many countries and regions around the world has declined sharply, in Vietnam, people are still very satisfied with the Government's preventive measures, leading to the highest level of satisfaction in the world.

German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) has recently run an article featuring the 11 most attractive tourist destinations in Vietnam.

Vietnam will soon lead Southeast Asia in renewable energy development, Germany’s Energiezukunft highlighted in its latest article, describing the country’s energy transition as very impressive.

The US’s newswire vox.com on April 23 published an article highlighting Vietnam’s effective measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, affirming that early and drastic actions such as border shutdown have helped Vietnam keep virus variants at bay while growing its economy.

An article written by Associate Professor Kawashima, former lecturer of Japan’s University of Tokyo, was published on the website https://jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles on April 13, calling for Japan to strengthen relations with the new government of Vietnam in the context of an increasingly tense US-China confrontation and China's increased control over the East Sea.

An article by Chairman of the Council of Experts of the Eurasian Research Fund Grigory Trofimchuk was published on The Independent newspaper, the most popular newspaper in Russia today, about Vietnam’s important personnel changes.

Vietnam’s new leadership has continued to make foreign headlines, with Germany’s Junge Welt (Young World) running an article on this regard on April 9.

People’s Hospital 115 in Ho Chi Minh City has become Vietnam’s first hospital to gain Diamond Status certification for its stroke treatment by the World Stroke Organisation (WSO).

On the occasion of the end of his working term in Vietnam, US Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink held a press conference at the headquarters of the US Embassy in Hanoi on April 7.

French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery, on behalf of the French State, recently awarded the Legion of Honor Order to Professor Chau Van Minh, President of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, at an event held in Hanoi.

After the Vietnamese State President, Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Assembly were sworn in, major Czech media reported on the event, expressing the expectation that the Czech - Viet relations will have new steps in the future.

Many newspapers and news agencies in the Middle East and Africa on April 6 published articles on the Vietnamese National Assembly's election of senior personnel, including State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, expressing their belief that Vietnam will continue to develop, and promote peace with the international community.