Today, the Council reached agreement (general approach) on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) regulation, which is one of the key elements of the European Union’s ‘Fit for 55’ package. The main objective of this environmental measure is to avoid carbon leakage. It will also encourage partner countries to establish carbon pricing policies to fight climate change.

This is the content of the latest announcement issued by the Ministry of Health on the afternoon of February 21, 2022 on medical isolation for F0 and F1 of Covid-19.

Vietnam lifted restrictions on operating frequency with international flights from February 15, 2022. As a result, regular international flights return to their pre-Covid-19 operations.

Domestic cement consumption volume will grow again in 2022, however, the gross profit margin of cement producers will face great pressure to maintain the current level due to great competition and high input costs.

According to the Building Materials Industry Report from VIRAC Research, the price of construction materials are forecasted to continue to increase next year.

In 2021, Vietnam has been actually facing Covid-19 pandemic on a much larger scale and severity than that in 2020. The economy, therefore, is severely affected and also reveals many problems, both in the short and medium term.

With the forecast that domestic consumption will recover strongly after 3 months of deep decline, the cement industry is expected to exceed the consumption milestone of 100 million tons.

37 provinces and cities have announced the epidemic levels after the Government issued Resolution 128 on temporary regulations "safely adapting, flexibly, effectively controlling the Covid-19 epidemic".