☕ Afternoon briefing on June 2
Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
-Prime
Minister Pham Minh Chinh extended congratulations to Buddhist dignitaries,
monks, nuns and followers on the occasion of Lord Buddha's 2567th birthday
(Vesak day), while visiting Quan Su Pagoda, the headquarters of the Central
Committee of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), in Hanoi on June 2.
The Government leader highlighted Buddhism’s
companionship with Vietnam over the past nearly 2,000 years, saying the
religion has played an important part in the spiritual and cultural life of
Vietnamese people.Read full text
-As
one of the countries most affected by natural disasters and climate change,
Vietnam always attaches importance to fulfilling global commitments to disaster
risk reduction, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Vietnam's Permanent Representative
to the United Nations (UN), has said.
Addressing a high-level meeting on the mid-term
review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which was
held in New York on May 18 and 31, Giang noted that Vietnam advocates shifting
from passive response to proactive prevention.Read full text
-Australian
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit from June 3-4 is expected to further
promote the sound relations between the two countries in all fields, including
peacekeeping, education and training.
This is the first official visit to Vietnam by
Anthony Albanese since taking office and only two months after the state visit
by Australian Governor-General, showing Australia's great attention to the
Southeast Asian nation.Read full text
-US
Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Centre and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive has
handed over a collection of diaries and letters of Vietnamese soldiers, mostly
of those who had died during the wartime in Vietnam, to their families and
relatives at a ceremony in Hanoi on June 2.
According to the organiser - the “Trai tim Nguoi
linh Viet Nam” (The Heart of Vietnamese Soldiers) organisation, the collection
comprises five diaries and 30 letters written during the war. It is part of the
Vietnam War Legacy project implemented by the Vietnam Centre and Sam Johnson
Vietnam Archive.Read full text
-Raffaele
Cattaneo, deputy minister in charge of international relations of Italy’s
Lombardia region, called Vietnam a “diamond” of Asia and an attractive
destination for Lombardia enterprises while speaking at a recent business and
investment forum in Milan.
Lombardia’s export revenue to the Southeast Asian
nation last year reached 2.5 billion USD, accounting for nearly 40% of the
total trade value between the two countries, Cattaneo told the forum.
He noted that Vietnam’s renewable energy
development strategy will offer golden opportunities to Lombardia firms.Read full text
-Nine
Vietnamese universities have been listed in the THE Impact Rankings 2023
released by the Times Higher Education (THE) on June 1.
In
2022, seven Vietnamese universities were listed in the ranking while only four
and two were named in the list in 2021 and 2020, respectively.Read full text
-The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has selected the
northern province of Ninh Binh, home to the UNESCO-recognised Trang An
Landscape Complex, to organise a training course on environmental protection in
the field of culture, sports and tourism.
The course responds to World Environment Day 2023
(June 5) themed Solutions to Plastic Pollution, with a focus on solutions to
plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution.Read full text/.