The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,245 VND per USD on February 25, up 2 VND from the previous day.

Domestic gold prices soared to an eight-year high on February 24, reaching 49.4 million VND (2,128.66 USD) per tael (1,766.4 USD per ounce).

The Ministry of Transport has not yet suspended flights between Vietnam and South Korea where the new coronavirus i s spreading rapidly, with more than 800 infections and at least seven deaths reported today, February 24.

The fears of coronavirus have clouded prospects for the global economy and caused difficulties for Vietnam's stock market.

Foreign investors still pay great attention to Vietnam albeit the complicated developments of the acute respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 which started to hit the world earlier this year.

More than 1,000 businesses located at processing, industrial and hi-tech parks in Ho Chi Minh City are set to have solar panels installed on their rooftops in the next few years in an effort to promote green development.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has stated that in the time to come, it will suspend the granting of new working licenses to foreign labourers who come from areas hit COVID-19 during the time of epidemic announced by Vietnam.

With 265 hectares of lychees certified with Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (or VietGAP) standard, Hai Duong province is seeking to boost export of the farm produce to choosy foreign markets like Japan, the United States, Australia and the EU.

Up to 260 carriages with tens of thousands of tonnes of exports and imports have passed Dong Dang International Railway Station, the northern border province of Lang Son, to and from China since February 4 despite impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.

The dollar checked its march higher on Tuesday, as investors sharply raised bets that the growing fallout from the coronavirus outbreak would prompt U.S. interest rate cuts.