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☕ Afternoon briefing on April 25

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
☕ Afternoon briefing on April 25 ảnh 1
Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’sevents as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 25 asked ministries and sectors tooptimise all tools to remove difficulties facing the financial, corporate bondand real estate markets, thus pumping in more resources and promoting majorgrowth in consumption, exports and investment.

Addressing a cabinet meeting, PM Chinh requested the State Bank of Vietnam, theMinistry of Finance and the Ministry of Construction to effectively implementissued documents and settle legal obstacles for the three markets and supervisethe implementation process. Read full story

- Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc received Honourary Consul of Vietnam in ParaguayMaria Del Carmen Perez on April 24 on the occasion of National AssemblyChairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s official visit to Argentina.

During the meeting, Ngoc spoke highly of the Honorary Consul’s effectivesupport for and close coordination with the Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina inrecent times, significantly contributing to maintaining and stepping up thebilateral relations in the context that Vietnam has yet to set up arepresentative office in Paraguay. Read full story

- President of Peru Dina Boluarte spoke highly of the relationship ofcooperation between Vietnam and Peru, during a recent meeting with outgoingVietnamese Ambassador to Brazil and Peru Pham Thi Kim Hoa.

Boluarte praised the efforts and achievements made by Biteltelecommunication service provider, the Peru branchof Vietnam's military-run telecom group Viettel, inproviding telecommunication services in rural and border areas of the SouthAmerican nation. Read full story

- General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Vu Viet Trang and Presidentof the Argentine National News Agency (Telam) Bernada Llorente signed acooperation agreement in Buenos Aires on April 24 (local time).

The signing took place following their talks the same day as part of theongoing official visit to Argentina by Chairman of the National Assembly VuongDinh Hue. Read full story

- So far this year, foreign direct investment (FDI) channelled into Vietnamneared 8.9 billion USD, with new capital surging after a slight decrease in thefirst three months.

According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign InvestmentAgency (FIA), there were 750 new projects granted investment licences worthover 4.1 billion USD, up 65.2% and 11.1% annually, respectively. Read full story

- Vietnamese seafood are being introduced at the Seafood Expo Global that isunderway in Barcelona, Spain from April 25-27. According to the VietnamAssociation of Seafood Producers and Exporters (VASEP), Vietnam has joined 20editions of the exhibition. This year, Vietnam sends 38 fisheries firms to theevent, doubling last years’ number. Read full story

- HCM City received more than 2.1 billion USD in remittances in the firstquarter of the year, a surge of 19% year-on-year, according to the StateBank of Vietnam. Read full story

- A workshop spotlighting Can Tho city as an investment destination in theMekong Delta took place at the headquarters of the Korean Chamber of Commerceand Industry (KCCI) in Seoul on April 24.

The event was co-organised by the KCCI, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce andIndustry (VCCI), the Vietnamese Embassy in the Republic of Korea, the Can ThoPeople’s Committee, and the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) Group. Read full story

- Ho Chi Minh City Health Department has asked local hospitals to stand readyto receive COVID-19 patients in necessary circumstances, amid the rising numberof infections.

Along with preparing an 1,800-bed hospital for COVID-19 patients, otherhospitals should be ready to resume its COVID-19 treatment units, thedepartment underlined at a meeting on COVID-19 fight in the city on April 25. Read full story

- A seminar on building partnerships between Vietnam and the US in highereducation was organised on April 25 by the US Consulate General in Ho Chi MinhCity with the participation of representatives from more than 30 Vietnamesehigher education institutions.

The event aims to help Vietnamese universities to establish educationalcooperation with US institutions and to organise exchange programmes with USstudents. Measures that can be applied to increase the number of US studentsstudying in Vietnam were also been discussed. Read full story

- A programme to popularise the Vietnamese culture was held in Birmingham onApril 23 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment ofdiplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United Kingdom.

The event attracted 150 students from Vietnam and other countries, as well asVietnamese living in the locality. Read full story

- A ceremony was held in the northern mid-land province of Phu Tho on April 25to commemorate the legendary ancestors of Vietnam, Father Lac Long Quan andMother Au Co. Traditional rituals were carried out at the temples dedicated tothe ancestral couple in the Hung Kings Temple relic site. Read full story

- Tan Thanh fishing village market in Hoi An city in the central province ofQuang Nam, set up more than three years ago, has gradually become a familiardestination for domestic and foreign tourists, and is expected to be arendezvous connecting visitors to Quang Nam. Read full story

- David Thomas, who took part in the US Army's operations in Vietnam’s CentralHighlands during the war, and 21 Vietnamese artists opened an exhibitionhighlighting the healing power of art in Hanoi on April 24.

The exhibition, named “David Thomas and Friends”, will remain open to visitorsuntil the end of April 29 at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum on NguyenThai Hoc street. Read full story./.
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