VNE – By Nguyen Quy February 19, 2021 | 02:00 pm GMT+7
An employee counts U.S. banknotes at a bank in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.
HCMC received inward remittances worth $6.1 billion last year, a record high and up 12 percent from the previous year, despite the economic slump caused by Covid-19.
The figure exceeded the forecast of $5.5 billion, Nguyen Hoang Minh, deputy director of the city branch of the State Bank of Vietnam, said.
“This is impressive growth in the context that the Covid-19 outbreak affected the income of overseas workers.”
