WEEK IN REVIEW (From December 4 to 10, 2023)

Indonesian Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan has given the green light for collaboration between ByteDance Ltd, the Chinese parent company of video-sharing app TikTok, and Indonesia's PT Gojek Tokopedia Tbk (GoTo) to establish an e-commerce platform.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 7 chaired a conference to seek measures to remove difficulties in credit for production and business activities, aiming to promote growth and macro-economic stability.

The production situation in the last months of this year has undergone positive changes, contributing to a slight increase in labor in industrial enterprises in the province, with a growth rate of 0.3 percent in November. 

The number of flood victims in Malaysia’s northeastern state of Kelantan continued to increase with a total of over 4,600 people taking shelter at evacuation centres as of 3pm on December 4.

According to the Provincial Statistics Office assessment, the industrial production situation of the province continued to show a positive trend in November 2023. 

The ST25 fragrant rice variety of Vietnam named Gao Ong Cua (Ong Cua Rice) has won the World’s Best Rice 2023 award, recently held in the Philippines, announced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, on November 30.