As 2023 is nearing its end, the Vietnam News Agency has selected the top 10 events shaping the country in the year.

The armed conflict between Israel and Hamas, the COP28 landmark agreement calling for transitioning away from fossil fuels, and the severe earthquake in Turkey are among the top 10 stand-out international events in 2023 selected by Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

The Vietnam News Agency has maintained its leading position in terms of readiness for information and communications technology development and application among ministerial-level agencies and agencies under the Government that do not provide public services, after topping the Vietnam ICT Index rankings for the 4th consecutive year.

Vietnam has seen record trade surplus of 20.1 billion USD in the first 11 months of 2020.

Industry, construction sectors record highest growth rate in the first nine months of 2020.

Five commodities record export values of over 10 billion USD in the first nine months of 2020.

Domestic representative offices and overseas bureaus of Vietnam News Agency

As the only news agency of the whole country, the state-run Vietnam News Agency is responsible for publishing official information and documents of the party and state, providing information in service of the party leadership and state management, while collecting and providing news via various forms to the mass media agencies, the public and readers of all kinds, both at home and abroad.

Four Vietnamese business people has been recognised as world billionaires in Forbes magazine's 2020 list of the world’s richest people.

While the majority of businesses shamble in the shadow of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in Vietnam, delivery services are on a roll.

Top 10 world events of 2019 selected by Vietnam News Agency

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected the top 10 events that shaped the country in 2019

The Republic of Korea is one of Vietnam’s leading partners, ranking first in investment, second in official development assistance provision after Japan, and third in trade.

Vietnam’s achievements at 15 SEA Games events

Vietnam aims to raise its ranking of e-government according to the United Nations assessment from 10 to 15 levels by 2020.

Vietnam was the first country in Asia and the second in the world to ratify United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990.