Tuoi Tre, VNA  Vietnam received US$6.28 billion in overseas remittances last year, a smaller-than-expected drop of 12.8 percent from 2008, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) said Wednesday.

Citigroup Inc. said Vietnam’s economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 was stronger than expected and full-year expansion was “far more resilient” than the rest of Asia with the exception of China, Bloomberg newswire reported Tuesday.