Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is alist of selected news summaries last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.
– An international workshop was held at the HoChi Minh Institute under St Petersburg University on June 30 to mark the 100thanniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s arrival in Russia.
Addressing the hybrid event, Vladimir Mazyrin,Director of the Centre for Vietnamese and ASEAN Studies at the Russian Academyof Science, recalled the late President’s 10-year stay in Europe, saying the knowledgehe gained had contributed to the success of Vietnam’s August Revolution andbuilding a Vietnamese state of democracy and independence.Read full text
– Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong metwith voters in Hanoi’s Hai Ba Trung, Ba Dinh and Dong Da districts on July 1 toinform them about outcomes of the recent fifth session of the 15th NationalAssembly (NA).
The local voters lauded the success of the fifthmeeting, saying NA deputies decided on many important, strategic nationalmatters, creating a significant political foundation for the operation of thegovernment, and activities of ministries and localities.Read full text
- A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), led byPolitburo member and Chairman of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission forInternal Affairs Phan Dinh Trac paid a working visit to Switzerland from June 26to July 2.
During the visit, the delegation met with and held workingsessions with First Vice President of the Swiss Council of States Eva Herzog;Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development(UNCTAD) Rebeca Grynspan; head of the Swiss Interdepartmental Agency onAnti-Corruption Alexandra Baumann; General Secretary of the Swiss FederalDepartment of Foreign Affairs Markus Seiler; Mayor of Bern Alec vonGraffenried; Co-President of the Swiss Labour Party Amanda Loset; GeneralSecretary of the Communist Party of Switzerland Massimilano Ay; and Presidentof the Switzerland-Vietnam Friendship Association Anjuska Weil.Read full text
– Professor Go Ito from Japan’s MeijiUniversity has emphasised flexibility in Vietnam’s foreign policy inmaintaining relations with countries, referring to its “bamboo diplomacy.”
The term “bamboo diplomacy” was coined by PartyGeneral Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during a diplomatic conference in 2016 andreiterated at the first national conference on foreign affairs in 2021. Duringthese meetings, the leader likened Vietnam’s foreign policy to bamboo, withstrong roots, solid stems, and flexible branches.Read full text
- Vietnam understands the value of education and manages itsteachers well, British weekly newspaper The Economist wrote in a recent article.
The article noted that Vietnamese children gothrough one of the best schooling systems in the world, a status reflected inoutstanding performances in international assessments of reading, maths andscience.Read full text
- The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has sent a document to creditinstitutions and branches of foreign banks and SBV in provinces andcentrally-run cities regarding the reduction of interest rates.
The document clearly stated that in accordance with theGovernment and the Prime Minister’s directives, and based on the recent marketand interest rate movements, the SBV requested all credit institutions andbranches of foreign banks to strictly follow its regulations on deposit rates.They must publicly post deposit rates at the designated deposit-takinglocations as prescribed by the SBV and continue with measures to reduce depositrates, thus creating conditions to lower lending rates for clients.Read full text
– Vietnam welcomed nearly 5.6 millioninternational visitors in the first half of this year, accounting for 66% ofthe figure the country recorded in 2019 before the outbreak of the COVID-19pandemic, according to Vietnam National Authority of Tourism – the new name ofthe Vietnam National Administration of Tourism from July 1.Regardingthe level of recovery compared to before the pandemic, five markets saw growthincluding Cambodia (338%), India (236%), Laos (117%), Thailand (108.4%), andSingapore (107.4%).Read full text/.
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