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☀️ Morning digest March 22

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

- PresidentVo Van Thuong hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 21 for Cambodian DeputyPrime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International CooperationPrak Sokhonn, who is in Vietnam for an official visit and co-chairing the 20thmeeting of the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Commission on Economic, Cultural,Scientific and Technological Cooperation.
Thuong expressed his belief that Cambodia willsuccessfully organise its general election in July 2023, and reap moreachievements in building a country of peace, independence, democracy andprosperity.Read full text

-Prime Minister PhamMinh Chinh received in Hanoi on March 21 Cambodian Deputy PM and Minister ofForeign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, who is on anofficial visit to Vietnam.
PM Chinh extended Vietnamese leaders’ greetings toCambodia on the occasion of the country’s coming traditional Chol Chnam Thmayfestival. He congratulated Cambodia on its enormous achievements over the pastyears, especially in the COVID-19 fight, inflation control, economic growth,the ASEAN Chairmanship in 2022, and the fifth-tenure communal/ward councilelections last June.Read full text

-Vietnamand Cambodia agreed to continue maintaining high-level exchanges,consultations, and bilateral mechanisms in the coming time at the 20th meetingof the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee on economic, cultural, scientific andtechnological cooperation in Hanoi on March 21.
The meeting was co-chaired by Foreign Minister BuiThanh Son and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairsand International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn in the framework of the latter'songoing official visit to Vietnam.Read full text

-TheHo Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) and young people must be the pioneersin implementing the policy of promoting national digital transformation, anddeveloping the digital economy based on science, technology and innovation,National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue requested on March 21.
The Vietnamese Party and State always attachspecial importance to youth and the youth work, and place faith in the forceand the Youth Union, Hue said at a meeting with the HCYU Central Committee’sSecretariat on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of the HCYU.Read full text

-Ministerof Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung has voiced his hope that USenterprises will become the biggest investor in Vietnam to seize everycooperation opportunity in the countries’ development process on the basis ofequality, mutual respect, and mutual benefits.
He made the remark at a meeting with a businessdelegation of the US - ASEAN Business Council (USABC) in Hanoi on March 21.Read full text

-Thailandwill further promote sci-tech and education cooperation with Vietnam, includinga plan to teach Vietnamese at some local universities, affirmed Minister ofHigher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) Anek Laothamatas ina working session with Vietnamese Ambassador Phan Chi Thanh in Bangkok on March20.
Thanh proposed the minister direct relevantdepartments to discuss the organisation of the first meeting of theVietnam-Thailand Joint Committee for Science and Technology Cooperation. Hesaid via the meeting, the sides will agree on contents serving the promotion oftheir engagements in the time to come and on a mechanism of co-financing jointresearch cooperation tasks, especially in the fields of digital transformation,green transformation, biotechnology, and automation.Read full text

-Aseminar was held in Hanoi on March 21 to look back on achievements during the50 years of the Vietnam - UK diplomatic relationship and the prospects offuture bilateral ties.
Opening the event, Phan Anh Son, Vice Presidentand Secretary-General of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO),said since the official establishment of the diplomatic relationship onSeptember 11, 1973, bilateral ties have continuously been reinforced anddeveloping. This is especially the case since the elevation of relations to astrategic partnership in September 2010, which has opened up many cooperationframeworks such as the strategic dialogue, the joint committee for economic andtrade cooperation, and the working group on defence.Read full text

- Aconference was held at Tra Vinh University in the Mekong Delta provinceentitled the Vietnam-Canada International Education and Partnership Conferenceto discuss collaboration between college and university educationalinstitutions in the two countries.
Addressing the event, which drew more than 300Vietnamese and foreign delegates, Canadian Consul General in Ho Chi Minh CityBehzad Babakhani highlighted the sound relations between Tra Vinh province, andTra Vinh University, in particular, thanks to the success of the Vietnam-CanadaCommunity College project and other Canadian-funded projects.Read full text

-Vietnamranks 65th out of 137 countries and territories in the 2020-2022 period as perthe World Happiness Report 2023, up 12 places from the 2022 Report.
The report was released on March 20, which theUnited Nations has designated as the International Day of Happiness since 2013.Read full text

-Asmany as 11,453 sport delegates from the ten ASEAN member countries andTimor-Leste will compete in the upcoming 32nd SEA Games and 12th ASEAN ParaGames 2023 in Cambodia, according to a local official.
Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism and Permanent ViceChairman the Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee and the Cambodian ASEANPara Games Organising Committee said at a torch-lighting ceremony for the Gameson March 21 that the host country will send 1,312 people to SEA Games 32.Read full text/.
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