– Countries must step up cooperation and dialogue, andstrengthen mutual understanding for a common cause of eliminating nuclear threat,Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc told a New York conference.
The 10th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on theNon-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened at the United Nationsheadquarters on August 1 after being postponed for more than 2 years because ofCOVID-19. Read full story
– Vietnam raked in 350 million USD from tuna exports toFrance in the first seven months of 2022, representing a year-o-year surge of203%, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers(VASEP).
Vietnam’s tuna exports to France up 203% in seven months. (Photo: VNA) – A workshop was held in the central city of Da Nang onAugust 2 to kick off the second phase of a project on waste classification atsource and waste recycling funded by the Japan International CooperationAgency (JICA) in the locality.
Illustrative image (Photo: danang.gov.vn) – Vietnam’s retail sale of goods and services in July areestimated at 486 trillion VND (20.8 billion USD), up 2.4% m-o-m, and 42.6%y-o-y, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
In the firstseven months of 2022, the total retail sales are estimated at 3.2 quadrillionVND, up 16% compared to the same period last year. The revenue fromretail sale of commodities in the period is estimated at 2.55 quadrillion VND,up 13.7% y-o-y.Read full story
– About 46.2 trillion VND (nearly 1.98 billion USD) ofinvestment capital sourced from the state budget was disbursed in July, up22.5% from a year earlier, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The amount brought the seven-month figure to an estimated 237.6 trillion VND,equivalent to 43.3% of this year’s target and rising 11.9% year on year. Read full story
– A memorial service was held in central Da Nang city onAugust 2 for Hero of the People’s Armed Forces Kostas Sarantidis - Nguyen VanLap, a man who held Greek and Vietnamese nationalities and joined theVietnamese people in the resistance war against the French colonialists.
Representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Committee forOverseas Vietnamese, the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’sArmy, Military Region 5, the Da Nang administration, along with local peoplecame to pay tribute to the deceased who passed away in Athens on June 25, 2021,at the age of 94. Read full story
– Vietnam has seen strong growth in two years of COVID-19 andan increase in foreign direct investment (FDI), according to an article on theSoutheast Asian nation’s development freshly published on Germany’s Junge Weltnewspaper.
The author, Gerhard Feldbauer, noted that while westerneconomies are showing signs of recession, Vietnam's economy is developing well. Read full story
– The northern province of Ninh Binh where Hollywoodblockbuster 'Kong: Skull Island' was filmed in 2016 was named one of the 12"coolest movie filming locations" in Asia, according to US magazineTravel Leisure.
Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex (Photo: VNA)
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