- National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on August 2 presided over a workingsession to collect feedback on the draft revised Land Law.
According to a report presented at the session, there remained 12 major issuesin the draft law facing different opinions. Read full story
- Vietnam always treasures and wishes to step up the strategic partnership withthe Philippines, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Secretary of ForeignAffairs of the Philippines Enrique A. Manalo during a reception in Hanoi onAugust 2. Read full story
- Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and his Philippinecounterpart Enrique Manalo co-chaired the 10th meeting of the countries’ JointCommittee for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) in Hanoi on August 2.
Manalo, who is on an official visit to Vietnam, affirmed that the Philippinesalways values consolidating and developing the friendly and multi-facetedcooperation with Vietnam, its sole strategic partner in ASEAN. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has thanked HSBC Holdings Plc and HSBC Vietnamfor their assistance and contributions to the development of the banking -financial industry in particular and the economy of Vietnam in general.
Receiving Group Chairman of the UK-based HSBC Holdings Plc Mark Tucker inHanoi on August 2, PM Chinh believed that the presence of British banks inVietnam such as HSBC and Standard Chartered will make positive contributions tofostering friendship and effective cooperation between the two countries. Read full story
- A ceremony was held in Hanoi’s Yen Vien station on August 2 to welcome thefirst freight train on Shijiazhuang (China) – Yen Vien (Vietnam) railway route.
The first international multimodal freighttrain from Shijiazhuang to Yen Vien ran on a distance of about 2,700 km with atime of 4-5 days. It consists of 23 carriages and carries nearly 800 tonnes ofgoods, including metal equipment, chemicals, and fertilisers. Read full story
- The 27th VietFood, Beverage and Professional Packing Machines (VietFood &Beverage – ProPack Vietnam 2023) will be held at the Saigon Exhibition andConvention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City from August 10-12.
It will feature 800 booths by 700 businesses from 20 countries and territories.A wide range of products will be on display, including food, beverages,nutritional supplements, medicinal food, functional food, seafood, as well asmachinery and equipment for food production, packaging, and preservation. Read full story
- Enterprises in the woodworking industry have begun to receive orders again toserve the furniture shopping season in the year-end months on the world market,heard a recent forum.
The volatility and unpredictability in global markets may have causedchallenges for many industries, including woodworking, but offeredopportunities to agile businesses, experts said at the forum. Read full story
- Vietnam will export 2 million doses ofvaccines against African swine fever (ASF) to the Philippines andIndonesia between August and October this year, according to Nguyen Van Long,Director of the Department of Animal Health under theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The Vietnamese ASF vaccine producers are collaborating with local authoritiesto deploy vaccination campaigns for pig herds, he said, adding that households,farms, and businesses have been using the ASF vaccines for their pigs. Read full story
- The Ministry of Transport has just submitted its proposal to Deputy PrimeMinister Tran Hong Ha on incentives for electrical vehicle (EV) producers andusers.
According to the ministry, Vietnam’s policies to encourage the use of EVs nowonly focus on battery EVs (BEVs) with incentives relating to specialconsumption tax and registration fees. Read full story
- The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) and theJapan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held a conference in Ho Chi MinhCity on August 2 to review a project on developing a vocational training modelfor people with disabilities caused by AO/Dioxin.
VAVA Chairman Nguyen Van Rinh said the clean vegetable growing project in Camvillage in HCM City's outlying district of Hoc Mon, which was adapted fromJapan's advanced agriculture, has been successful in Vietnam. Read full story
- The Vietnam Festival “Hello Saitama” will take place in the Japaneseprefecture of Saitama from September 1-3, re-enacting the atmosphere of theMid-Autumn Festival and bring it to the Japanese people and the Vietnamesecommunity living there.
The festival will be sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs asit is one of the activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Vietnam-Japandiplomatic ties this year, heard a press conference held at the VietnameseEmbassy in Japan on August 2. Read full story
- The Southeast Asian Women's Volleyball Tournament will take place in thenorthern province of Vinh Phuc from August 4-6, with teams from Thailand,Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam taking part, reported the provincialDepartment of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The tournament will consist of six matches, with each team playing threematches. The teams will compete in a round-robin format, and the rankings willbe determined based on the points earned. Read full story./.
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