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☀️ Morning digest July 13

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest July 13 ảnh 1

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 12received President of the International Federation of Freight ForwardersAssociations (FIATA) Ivan Petrov, who is visiting Vietnam to attend FIATA’s2023 Asia-Pacific Regional Annual Meeting, which will take place in the centralcity of Da Nang from July 13 to 15.

☀️ Morning digest July 13 ảnh 2Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) and President of the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) Ivan Petrov at their meeting in Hanoi on July 12 (Photo: VNA)

PM Chinh took this occasion to express his gratitudefor the federation’s contributions to promoting cooperation between theVietnamese logistics service business community and their peers worldwide aswell as its support for the Vietnam Logistics Business Association (VLA)’shosting of the FIATA World Congress in Hanoi in 2025. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called for raising publicawareness of digital transformation, with priority given to developingdatabases, promoting online public services, developing infrastructure anddigital platforms, and ensuring cyber security and information safety.

Chairing the 6th meeting of the National Committee on DigitalTransformation and a teleconference on digital transformation tasks and aproject onpopulation database, e-identification and e-authentication for nationaldigital transformation for the 2022-2025 period (Project 06)with a vision towards 2030 in Hanoi on July 12, PM Chinh, who is head ofthe national committee, hailed positive progress in digital transformation andProject 06 since early this year. Read full story

- Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs BuiThanh Son had separate meetings with Indian Minister of External AffairsSubrahmanyam Jaishankar and Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wongon the occasion of their attendance at the 56th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’Meeting (AMM-56) in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 12.

☀️ Morning digest July 13 ảnh 3At a meeting with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (Photo: VNA)

Meeting Minister Jaishankar, Son hailed India forsupporting ASEAN in maintaining its solidarity and central role. Read full story

- The Vietnamese Embassy in the UK held aceremony on July 11 to inaugurate the Honorary Consulate Office of Vietnam inDublin, the Republic of Ireland.

☀️ Morning digest July 13 ảnh 4Vietnamese Ambassador to the UK and the Republic of Ireland Nguyen Hoang Long (second from right), Minister of State at the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Sean Fleming (centre), and first Honorary Consul of Vietnam in Dublin Patrick Gerard McKillen (second from left) cut the symbolic ribbon to inaugurate the Honorary Consulate Office. (Photo: VNA)

Earlier, in May, Patrick Gerard McKillen, arenowned Irish businessman with many years of attachment with Vietnam, wasappointed as the first Honorary Consul of Vietnam in Dublin. Read full story

- Since the normalisation of their relations,Vietnam and the US have together achieved significant accomplishments,President of the Vietnam-US Friendship Association in Ho Chi MinhCity Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong has affirmed at a July 12 gathering to markthe 247th anniversary of the US Independence Day (July 4, 1776-2023) in thesouthern Vietnamese metropolis.

In her remarks, Phuong said Vietnam iscurrently one of the US’s leading trade partners in the region, while the UShas invested billions of dollars in addressing the Agent Orange contaminationand other remaining war legacy issues in Vietnam. Read full story

- Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Phan ChiThanh held a working session with Thai Minister of Social Development and HumanSecurity Chuti Krairiksh in Bangkok on July 12 to promote bilateral cooperationin combating human trafficking and share experience in social welfaredevelopment.

Hailing Vietnam as one of the important memberstates that has made active contributions to cooperation mechanisms at ASEAN,Chuti wished that Vietnam and Thailand would enhance bilateral coordination aswell as at other multilateral mechanisms. Read full story

- Luc Ngan lychees from the northern province of Bac Giangwere officially put up for sale at Central Retail’s Tops Food Hall supermarketat CentralwOrld shopping centre in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 12.

☀️ Morning digest July 13 ảnh 5At Tops Food Hall supermarket (Photo: VNA)

Earlier, a batch of three tonnes of Luc Ngan lychees wereexported by Central Retail to Thailand on July 10. They are now sold at 259 THBper box, or 173,000 VND (7.5 USD) per kg./. Read full story

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