Vietnam in foreigners’ eyes

A short video touting Vietnam as a must-see tourist destination of Asia was released on the US Cable News Network (CNN) on October 15.

Conde Nast Traveller readers have voted Vietnam among their top 20 favourite countries around the globe, as part of the US-based magazine’s 33rd annual readers’ choice awards survey.

Israeli Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr. Nadav Eshcar, expressed his idea that Israel admires and wishes to learn from Vietnam's experience in fighting COVID-19 as his country is going through the second wave of the pandemic.

Vietnam stands out as the only ASEAN economy to achieve positive growth in 2020 and rebound to an 8.1 percent growth rate in 2021 – the highest in Asia, the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) said in a recent report.

The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper on October 6 ran an article appreciating Vietnam’s fight against COVID-19, adding that Vietnam should be considered a model in the fight.

The Diplomat magazine has recently posted an article on an official visit to Vietnam by British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in September and a negotiating bilateral free trade agreement.

The implementation of projects funded by the Japanese Government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) amid the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to Vietnam’s economic recovery, an official from the agency has said.

Vietnam’s real GDP would grow by 2.6 percent in 2020 and hit an 8.2 percent rebound next year, Fitch Solutions has forecast.

Asia Times on October 1 ran an article saying that the Vietnamese economy will soon recover after COVID-19 pandemic and become one of the best performers in the world.

Vietnam is a model to learn from after two effective responses to COVID-19, according to an article posted on the Indian Times.

Thanks to the strict lockdown in the COVID-19 outbreak in Da Nang city, massive COVID-19 testing and good mass communication, Vietnam can now “take pride” in defeating its second coronavirus wave, the UK newspaper Telegraph has reported.

Dozens of French groups and major companies operating in different fields joined an online conference on September 28 that sought ways to promote French investments in Vietnam after the COVID-19.

Over the past week, many Indonesian newspapers praised Vietnam’s victory over the global COVID-19 pandemic, saying that Indonesia needs to learn from the experience of Vietnam.

Indonesian media have applauded Vietnam’s success in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which helps the country’s economy to expand.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has published an article highlighting the nation’s fast, efficient, and cost-effective response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) which has helped to return the lives of Vietnamese citizens back to normal.

ASEAN member countries’ ambassadors to Pretoria, South Africa, have shared an assessment that Vietnam has successfully completed the ASEAN Chairmanship task in the past 9 months.

The US magazine CounterPunch has just published an article on Vietnam's success in the fight against COVID-19, which highlights the solidarity of the people.

New Zealand highly evaluated Vietnam’s role as Chair of ASEAN 2020, especially amid the challenging and unusual circumstances, said Alison Mann, New Zealand's Senior Official for APEC, East Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum and SEAN.

Chargé d'Affaires of the US Mission to ASEAN Melissa A. Brown has affirmed that Washington commends Vietnam for its efforts as ASEAN Chair during this challenging time caused by COVID-19.

According to many foreign experts and officials, Vietnam's international prestige today is at a record high.

Professor Huang Zheng (Hoang Tranh), one of the famous researchers of Uncle Ho in China, has six times visited President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.

Vietnam has shouldered the responsibility of ASEAN Chairmanship during a tough time, and the theme “Cohesive and Responsive” chosen by the country for this year couldn't be more relevant, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Deng Xijun has said.

Russia appreciates the efforts made by Vietnam as the Chair of ASEAN in 2020 and other ASEAN-led mechanisms, according to Russian Ambassador to ASEAN Alexander Ivanov.

(CPV) - Viet Nam’s economy is expected to grow 1.8% in 2020 amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and bounce back to 6.3% in 2021, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on September 15th 2020.

Ambassador of the European Union (EU) at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Igor Driesmans assessed that Vietnam had successfully organized the 53rd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM 53) and related meetings in the context of unprecedented challenges.

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to ASEAN Lim Sungnam has appreciated Vietnam’s cohesive and responsive leadership in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic as Chair of ASEAN in 2020.

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Indonesia Puan Maharani has said she fully appreciates Vietnam's effort in hosting the first-ever virtual 41st General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-41) amid COVID-19 pandemic.

Russia’s news agency Sputnik has just released an article appreciating Vietnam's rapid and strong socio-economic development, clearly noting that even at present, as the world economy suffers the worst crisis since the great recession in the 1930s due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vietnamese economic growth does not decrease but still grows at 1.81%.

The recovery prospects look brightest for Vietnam and the country is expected to be the only Southeast Asiaeconomy to record positive growth this year, according to the latest Global Economic Outlook report from Oxford Economics, commissioned by chartered accountancy body ICAEW.

FDI inflows into Vietnam will soon bounce back once the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control, Chief Representative of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) in Hanoi Takeo Nakajima said on September 9.