Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 28 presided overa conference on accelerating the progress of the Quang Trach-Pho Noi powertransmission line project in the central province of Thanh Hoa as part of hisvisit to the project sites, stressing collective efforts to finish the projectby mid-2024.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the conference. (Photo: VNA) The conference was connected with sites in othereight provinces where the transmission line runs through. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 28 attended aLunar New Year (Tet) programme and presented gifts to social policybeneficiaries, the poor and disadvantaged workers in the central province ofThanh Hoa.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with workers in Thanh Hoa province. (Photo: VNA) The leader affirmed that the Party and Statealways strive to improve people’s spiritual and material life, as reflectedthrough the roll-out of national target programmes on poverty reduction,new-style rural area building, and socio-economic development in ethnicminority-inhabited and mountainous areas. Read full story
- The state visit to Vietnam by Philippine PresidentFerdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. and his spouse from January 29-30 will be amilestone in the Philippines-Vietnam bilateral relationship and contribute todeepening the relationship between the two countries, said PhilippineAmbassador to Vietnam Meynardo Los Banos Montealegre.
Speaking to the media ahead of the visit, theambassador said that it is the first state visit to Vietnam by President Marcosalthough he has met Vietnamese officials previously. Read full story
- The upcoming state visit to Vietnam by Philippine PresidentFerdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. will create momentum for the bilateral ties inall spheres, Vietnamese Ambassador to the Philippines Lai Thai Binh hasaffirmed.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency(VNA) ahead of the visit on January 29-30, the ambassador said Vietnam and thePhilippines established diplomatic relations on July 12, 1976, and officiallysigned an agreement to upgrade their relationship to a strategic partnership onNovember 17, 2015. Read full story
- Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and hiscounterpart from the Republic of Korea (RoK) Cho Tae Yul agreed to continuestrengthening trust between the two countries through delegation exchanges athigh and all levels, and promoting trade partnership, in their telephone talkson January 26.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son holds telephone talks with his counterpart from the Republic of Korea Cho Tae Yul on January 26 (Photo: VNA) The two sides concurred to work closely togetherto speed up the effective implementation of the action programme to boost theVietnam-RoK comprehensive strategic partnership. Read full story
- Vietnam and Cambodia on January 28 pledged to provide maximumassistance to Laos to help it successfully perform the role as Chair of ASEAN2024.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of CambodiaSok Chenda Sophea made the pledge at their meeting in Luang Prabang, Laosahead of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ (AMM) Retreat. Read full story
- During the 35-year journey of foreign direct investment(FDI) attraction, Vietnam has continuously improved institutions and incentivesto attract and better manage domestic and foreign investment resources. Theexpansion of economic diplomacy activities by the Party and Government inrecent times has created more opportunities for Vietnam to attract high-qualitycapital flows into new industries.
In 2023, Vietnam attracted 36.6 billion USD ofFDI, an increase of more than 32% over 2022. Of which, newly registered capitalreached more than 20 billion USD, up 62.2%; supplemented capital reached nearly7.9 billion USD, down 22.1%; and the total value of capital contribution byforeign investors was over 8.5 billion USD, up 65.7%. Read full story
- Vietnam had attracted more than 2.36 billion USD in foreigndirect investment (FDI) as of January 20, an increase of 40.2% over the sameperiod in 2023, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministryof Planning and Investment.
As many as 190 new projects were granted investment registrationcertificates, a year-on-year rise of 24.2%, with a total registered capital ofmore than 2 billion USD, 66.9% higher than that of the same period last year. Read full story
- Fruit and vegetable exports are predicted to set a newrecord in 2024, possibly exceeding the 6-billion-USD tunover goal and evenapproaching the 7-billion-USD milestone.
Insiders said many opportunities are opening upfor the sector as the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) isimplementing numerous activities to promote its development./. Read full story
