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Vietnam expected to reopen int’l flights by late 2021

Vietnam’s aviation industry could recover from the mid-third quarter with the number of air passengers reaching an estimated 70 million in 2021. Vietnam can gradually resume regular international flights by late 2021 as the rollout of Covid-19 vaccination programs in the country and abroad is accelerated. This comes as Vietnam’s major markets for local airlines […]

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Vietnam’s GDP expands 5.64% in H1

The current Covid-19 situation is threatening Vietnam’s efforts of realizing the twin goal of boosting economic growth along with putting the pandemic under control. Vietnam’s GDP growth in the first half of 2021 is estimated at 5.64%, triple the economic growth rate of 1.82% in the same period of last year, according to the General […]

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Vietnam: Business household survey to begin on July 1

The results will help the Government better assess the current economic state and socio-economic development trend. The General Statistics Office (GSO) will survey over five million individual business households and 45,000 religious groups nationwide from July 1-31. This is the second phase of the 2021 national economic census, said GSO Deputy Director General Nguyen Trung […]

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Thailand: Dining-in ban hurts ailing eateries

Eateries are braving the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis, with the government’s latest announcement to ban dining-in at restaurants across high-risk areas including Bangkok through July anticipated to aggravate their plight. Nongchanok Stananonth, assistant vice-president of marketing at SLRT, operator of Sizzler restaurant chain, said that with the new measure, 31 Sizzler restaurants out of 57 have […]

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