Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a briefreview of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
– Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked theMinister of Transport and Chairpersons of People’s Committees of the 38 citiesand provinces where expressways run through to instruct authorities under theirwings to conduct compensation and resettlement in line with legal regulations.
In a dispatch on speeding up the implementationof important expressways signed on December 29, the PM, who is also head of thestate steering committee for national key transport projects, said that biddingshould be carried out in accordance with law, stressing the need to selectcontractors with sufficient capacity and experience to ensure quality andefficiency of the projects.Read full text
- Pope Francis, head of the Holy See, wished theleaders and people of Vietnam a merry Christmas and a happy New Year whilemeeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Duong Hai Hung at the ChristmasMass recently held in St. Peter's Basilica.
Pope Francis expressed his delight at thefruitful development of the relations between Vietnam and the Holy See. Hehoped that the bilateral ties will further develop in the time to come.Read full text
– Authorities of the northern province of Dien Bien on December30 re-buried the remains of four Vietnamese martyrs who died in Laos duringwartime.
The remains were found by the search team of Vietnam'sMilitary Region 2 in the Lao province of Luang Prabang in their first searchingmission during the 2022 - 2023 dry season. Those four fallen soldiers have notbeen identified. Read full text
– Vietnam has recorded an impressive percentageof women in UN peacekeeping operations, said Caitlin Wiesen, former ResidentRepresentative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam.
Since the Women, Peace and Security Agenda – anexpanded framework towards women’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations– was officially approved in 2000, Vietnam has ensured women’s engagement inpeace processes, she added.Read full text
– There are 208,300 enterprises entering theVietnamese market or resuming their operation in 2022, up 30.3% year-on-year,according to head of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Thi Huong.
Specifically, this year, 148,500 registered tobe set up, with a combined capital of 1.59 quadrillion VND (67.4 billion USD)and 981,300 labourers, up 27.1% in the number of firms, and 14.9% in the numberof workers, and down 1.3% in capital year-on-year.Read full text
– A surge of 87% was seen in tra fish exportsto ASEAN markets in the first 11 months of this year to 183 million USD,accounting for about 8% of total export revenue of the product in the period.
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters andProducers (VASEP) reported that more than 45% of ASEAN's total tra fish importscame from the Thai market, with nearly 83 million USD.Read full text
– The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak –Vietnam’s capital of coffee – pocketed 798 million USD in coffee exports in2022, accounting for 53.2% of the locality’s total export turnover.
This year, the province shipped abroad 380,000tonnes of coffee bean out of its 550,000 tonnes harvested, the highest everexport volume.Read full text
- The 7th National Congress of the Vietnam WarVeterans’ Association (VWVA) opened in Hanoi on December 30.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong,President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and NationalAssembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue joined revolutionary veterans, HeroicVietnamese Mothers, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Heroes of Labour, and506 war veterans representing more than 3 million VWVA members at the function.Read full text/.
– Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked theMinister of Transport and Chairpersons of People’s Committees of the 38 citiesand provinces where expressways run through to instruct authorities under theirwings to conduct compensation and resettlement in line with legal regulations.
In a dispatch on speeding up the implementationof important expressways signed on December 29, the PM, who is also head of thestate steering committee for national key transport projects, said that biddingshould be carried out in accordance with law, stressing the need to selectcontractors with sufficient capacity and experience to ensure quality andefficiency of the projects.Read full text
- Pope Francis, head of the Holy See, wished theleaders and people of Vietnam a merry Christmas and a happy New Year whilemeeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Duong Hai Hung at the ChristmasMass recently held in St. Peter's Basilica.
Pope Francis expressed his delight at thefruitful development of the relations between Vietnam and the Holy See. Hehoped that the bilateral ties will further develop in the time to come.Read full text
– Authorities of the northern province of Dien Bien on December30 re-buried the remains of four Vietnamese martyrs who died in Laos duringwartime.
The remains were found by the search team of Vietnam'sMilitary Region 2 in the Lao province of Luang Prabang in their first searchingmission during the 2022 - 2023 dry season. Those four fallen soldiers have notbeen identified. Read full text
– Vietnam has recorded an impressive percentageof women in UN peacekeeping operations, said Caitlin Wiesen, former ResidentRepresentative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam.
Since the Women, Peace and Security Agenda – anexpanded framework towards women’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations– was officially approved in 2000, Vietnam has ensured women’s engagement inpeace processes, she added.Read full text
– There are 208,300 enterprises entering theVietnamese market or resuming their operation in 2022, up 30.3% year-on-year,according to head of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Thi Huong.
Specifically, this year, 148,500 registered tobe set up, with a combined capital of 1.59 quadrillion VND (67.4 billion USD)and 981,300 labourers, up 27.1% in the number of firms, and 14.9% in the numberof workers, and down 1.3% in capital year-on-year.Read full text
– A surge of 87% was seen in tra fish exportsto ASEAN markets in the first 11 months of this year to 183 million USD,accounting for about 8% of total export revenue of the product in the period.
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters andProducers (VASEP) reported that more than 45% of ASEAN's total tra fish importscame from the Thai market, with nearly 83 million USD.Read full text
– The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak –Vietnam’s capital of coffee – pocketed 798 million USD in coffee exports in2022, accounting for 53.2% of the locality’s total export turnover.
This year, the province shipped abroad 380,000tonnes of coffee bean out of its 550,000 tonnes harvested, the highest everexport volume.Read full text
- The 7th National Congress of the Vietnam WarVeterans’ Association (VWVA) opened in Hanoi on December 30.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong,President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and NationalAssembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue joined revolutionary veterans, HeroicVietnamese Mothers, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Heroes of Labour, and506 war veterans representing more than 3 million VWVA members at the function.Read full text/.
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