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☀️ Morning digest February 1

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest February 1 ảnh 1
Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected newssummaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

- Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong onJanuary 31 chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’sSecretariat to review the organisation of Tet (Lunar New Year)celebrations and look into major tasks in the time ahead.

The leader lauded Party Committees andadministrations at all levels for their serious implementation of directivesissued by the Secretariat and the Prime Minister regarding the organisation ofTet, the biggest and longest festival in Vietnam. Read full story

|- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will hold a dialogue with youngpeople in Hanoi on March 26, the Government Office has announced.

Ministries, agencies and units concerned were assigned toperform tasks in the event organising plan issued by the Minister of HomeAffairs. Read full story

- The vaccine against African swine fever (ASF) AVAC ASF LIVEdeveloped and produced by AVAC Vietnam Co., Ltd.  is expected to bedistributed nationwide from February this year, according to Deputy Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.

Speaking at a meeting on the supervision ofquality and the use of 600,000 doses of AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine onJanuary 31, Tien asked AVAC Vietnam to continue evaluating the immunity levelof the vaccine after injection, and give strict guidelines and recommendationsfor livestock farmers.Read full story

-  A military jet of the Air and Air Defence Forcecrashed when landing in a training session at 12:27pm in the northernprovince of Yen Bai on January 31, after taking off at 12:09pm.

The 31-year-old pilot of the Su 22 passed awayin the accident. He was Captain Tran Ngoc Duy, Deputy Squadron Leader, Chief ofStaff of the first Squadron of Air Force Regiment 921, Division 371 of the Airand Air Defence Force.Read full story
☀️ Morning digest February 1 ảnh 2Illustrative image (Photo: vietnamnet)
- Vietnamese internet service providers have confirmed that fourout of five submarine internet cables that connect the country to the world areexperiencing issues, seriously affecting performance and reliability.

Two lines, Asia-America Gateway (AAG) and Asia Pacific Gateway(APG), are completely offline at the moment, and the Asia Africa Europe 1(AAE-1) line is seeing disruptions towards the Hong Kong hub, while the IntraAsia (IA) line cable is seeing problems near the Singapore hub.Read full story

- Tax revenue in January was estimated at 165.7 trillion VND(7.06 billion USD), or 12.1% of the ordinance estimate, up 4.4% year-on-year,the General Department of Taxation reported on January 31.

Accordingly, revenue from crude oil hit 5.3trillion VND, equal to 12.6% of the estimate and 167.7% of the figure in thesame period last year. Domestic revenue was estimated at 160.4 trillion VND,equivalent to 12% of the ordinance estimate and 103.1% of the figure a year ago. Read full story

- The northern province of Lao Cai has recorded vibrantimport and export activities via border gates with China in January,posting 49.5 million USD in turnover from January 1 - 29.

The figure comprises 25.7 million USD in importsand 23.8 million USD in exports, statistics show.Read full story
☀️ Morning digest February 1 ảnh 3People’s Teacher and People’s Artist Thai Thi Lien. (Photo: VNA)
- People’s Teacher and People’s Artist Thai Thi Lien, mother ofPeople’s Artist Dang Thai Son, passed away at her home on January 31 at the ageof 106.

Lien was born in 1918 in Ho Chi Minh City into an intellectualfamily. Her father was Thai Van Lan, one of the first Vietnamese electricalengineer graduating in France./.Read full story
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