Recently the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) launched the 2020 Contest "Creative Women Entrepreneurs - Successful Connection" to support and help realize startup ideas and projects with priority given to poor women, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minority and disadvantaged areas.

On June 2007, TYM Fund extended relations with a new organization – KIVA (USA). This organization will support TYM Fund ‘s members to borrow capital with preferential interest of 0 percent.

Viet Nam's special ornamental plants, flowers and pottery objects have won high praise by visitors at the 9th International Flower and Bonsai Fair, which opened in Genoa, Italy, on April 21.

The British Sunday Times in its recent issue criticized the EU’s decision to impose anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnamese shoes, considering it as an act to cause great losses to the Vietnamese economy and European footwear producers.

Labour export in recent years has been one effective method of generating employment, helping to increase workers' income and earning foreign currency for the country.