Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency on June 20.
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June20 attended a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of Cambodian PM HunSen’s journey to overthrow the Pol Pot genocidal regime, held in Memot districtof Cambodia’s Tbuong Khmum province.
On this day 45 years ago, after crossing the Cambodia -Vietnam border and arriving in Binh Phuoc, Hun Sen, who was then a lieutenantcolonel and a regiment commander of Region 21 in eastern Cambodia, and hiscomrades decided to seek help from Vietnam to overthrow the Pol Pot genocidalregime to regain peace for his homeland. Read full story
- Vietnam attaches special importance to its traditionalcooperation and friendship with Mozambique and views the latter as one of thefive African countries with which it prioritises political - diplomatic andeconomic ties, said National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
The NA leader made the remark at his talks with the Presidentof the Mozambican Assembly, Esperanca Laurinda Francisco Nhiuane Bias,following an official welcome ceremony in Hanoi on June 20. Read full story
- Experts in a recent TV talk show underscored thesignificance of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS) and Vietnam’s engagement in this deal.
The talk show was held by the Party Central Committee’sInformation and Education Commission and the National Assembly Television onJune 18 on the occasion of 40 years since UNCLOS was opened for signature and10 years since the promulgation of Vietnam’s Law of the Sea. Read full story
- Soldiers of Vietnam’s Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 4have recently provided training and updated knowledge on the epidemiologicalsituation, diagnosis, treatment of prevention of monkeypox for Level-1 fieldhospitals in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), according tothe Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
In the context of the disease developing complicatedly inmany countries around the world, including African ones where it was firstdetected, the training aimed at equipping medical workers with basic knowledgeand necessary epidemiological skills, thus helping the health system in themission able to take concerted measures in response to the disease in case itspreads to the area where the mission is stationed. Read full story
- The ownership of all 100 cashew nut containers related to asuspected scam in Italy has returned to Vietnamese businesses, according to theVietnamese Trade Office in the European country.
The containers, belonging to six Vietnamese exporters,were sold under contracts with a group of five importers in Italy. As thecontainers had been already dispatched, with some having reached Italian ports,the Vietnamese sellers claimed that they had not received any payment as agreedfrom the buyers and had lost track of the original documents of the consignments. Read full story
- As many as 1.1 million people have so far used Mobile Moneyservice, including nearly 660,000 in rural, mountainous, remote, border andisland areas.
Ngo Dien Hy, Deputy General Director of the VietnamPosts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), said Mobile Money is anextension arm of the bank sector, enabling people in remote areas to accessbanking services. Read full story
- A total of 815 Japanese candidates attended the fifthVietnamese-language proficiency test held by the Japan College of ForeignLanguages (JCFL) in Tokyo on June 19, the highest number to date.
President of this year’s jury Fujino Masayoshi said althoughthe COVID-19 pandemic has just subsided in Japan, the number of candidates grewby 254 people from last year and by 115 percent from 2017 when the firstedition took place./. Read full story