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☕ Afternoon briefing on August 16

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
☕ Afternoon briefing on August 16 ảnh 1

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.

- State President Vo Van Thuong had a meetingin Hanoi on August 16 with outstanding dignitaries and officials of religions,ethnic minorities, intellectuals and individuals of Ho Chi Minh City.

☕ Afternoon briefing on August 16 ảnh 2State President Vo Van Thuong meets outstanding dignitaries and officials of religions, ethnic minorities, intellectuals and individuals of Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: VNA)

Thuong affirmed that the Party and State havealways determined that great national solidarity is a strategic guideline, asource of strength, a main driving force, and a decisive factor to ensure thesustainable victory of the nation building and safeguarding cause. Read full story

- Vietnamese auto maker VinFast Auto Ltd. (VinFast) rang thebell to officially commence trading of its shares on the Nasdaq Global SelectMarket, the US, under the ticker symbol “VFS”. 

☕ Afternoon briefing on August 16 ảnh 3Vietnamese auto maker VinFast Auto Ltd. (VinFast) rings the bell to officially commence trading of its shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the US.(Photo:Screenshots)

With an equity value of over 23 billion USD, VinFast became thelargest Vietnamese company listed on the US stock market by marketcapitalisation. Read full story

- Vietnam’s coffee industry needs to take measures to adapt to anew European Union (EU) law that prevents the import of commodities linked todeforestation.

The law, passed in late June and will come into effect by theend of 2024, requires companies selling commodities into the EU to produce adue diligence statement and verifiable data proving their goods were not grownon land deforested after 2020. Read full story

- Surpassing Japan, China now ranks third amongthe countries and territories with significant investments in Vietnam since thebeginning of the year.

Data from the Ministry of Planning andInvestment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) reveals that between January andJuly, Chinese investors registered over 2.33 billion USD in Vietnam, hence thethird position. Moreover, with the number of new projects put intoconsideration, China holds the top rank with 325. Read full story

- The trend of sustainable consumption, withenvironmentally friendly products, has received increasing attention in Vietnamand created an influence on the production and distribution system.

From his practical experience, CEO of Go/BigCSystem in Hanoi and the northern region Le Manh Phong said that over the recentyears, the trend of sustainable consumption in the country has been becomingmore and more obvious, as a product with an environmentally friendly productionor packaging process often brings more advantages to the business in itscompetition. Read full story

- The National Agricultural Extension Centre(NAEC) has initiated several organic rice production projects in localities,which are gaining more favour for their clean products, lower production costs,and contributions to land improvement and enhanced grain value.

The organic rice production model, coupled withproduct consumption links, has so far been deployed in the north-centralprovinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh, and Quang Tri, spanning an area of 240 hectares. Read full story

- The police at the Da Nang InternationalAirport in the central city of Da Nang officially put four automatic entrysystems (Autogate) into operation on August 15 to facilitate the entry oftravelers and speed up immigration procedures.

☕ Afternoon briefing on August 16 ảnh 4Vietnam has become the first country to successfully develop and produce two vaccines against ASF - NAVET-ASFVAC vaccine produced by the National Veterinary JSC (NAVETCO) and AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine of AVAC Vietnam Joint Stock Company. (Photo: VNA)

Two systems are installed in the departure areaand the others in the arrival area. In the initial phase of operation, theAutogate is applied to Vietnamese citizens with valid passports. Read full story

- Representatives from AVAC Vietnam Joint Stock Company and thePhilippines’ KPP Powers Commodites Inc on August 15 visited a pig farm inHanoi's Dan Phuong district, where Made-in-Vietnam African swine fever (ASF)vaccines have been tested. 

In July 2023, 300,000 doses of AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine of AVACVietnam Joint Stock Company were officially imported to the Philippines by theKPP./.Read full story

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