☕ Afternoon briefing on June 21

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency on June 21.

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reportedby the Vietnam News Agency on June 21.

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 21 asked theMekong Delta – Vietnam’s biggest food basket – to make most of the Party andState’s policies dedicated to the region for its further development and abetter life of its people.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaking at the conference (Photo: VNA)

The PM madethe request while chairing a conference to announce a master plan andinvestment promotion programme for the region in the 2021-2030 period, with thetheme "Mekong Delta: New thinking - New vision - New opportunities - Newvalues”. Read full story

- Defence Minister Gen. Phan VanGiang is leading a high-ranking military delegation of Vietnam to attend the16th ASEAN Defence  Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) in PhnomPenh, Cambodia at the invitation of Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and DefenceMinister Gen. Tea Banh. Read full story

- A get-together forformer experts of Ho Chi Minh City who assisted the Cambodianrevolution in the 1979-1989 period was organised on June 21 as part ofactivities to celebrate the 55th founding anniversary of Vietnam – Cambodiadiplomatic ties. Read full story

- Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Vu Quang Minh on June 20 paid acourtesy call to Dr. Peter Tschentscher, First Mayor of the City of Hamburg,during which the two sides discussed the status and prospects of theVietnam-Germany relations and those between Vietnamese cities and provinces andHamburg. Read full story

- The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will increase itsinterference in the foreign currency market and stay ready to pump money to themarket more frequently, thus creating favourable conditions for creditinstitutions to meet the demand for legal foreign currencies of organisationsand individuals, according to Vice Director of the SBV’s Monetary PolicyDepartment Pham Chi Quang. Read full story

- Vietnam and Japan on June 20signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the technical intern trainingprogramme for Vietnamese interns in Japan.

At the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding on the technical intern training programme between Vietnam and Japan (Photo: VNA)

The MoU wasinked by representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs and the International Manpower Development Organization (IMJapan). Read full story

- Ninety photos on the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelagoand the DK1 platform by Colonel Doan Hoai Trung are on display in Ho Chi MinhCity on the occasion of the 97th anniversary of the Vietnam Revolutionary PressDay (June 21, 1925 - 2022). Theexhibition spotlights the lives of soldiers and locals and their desire anddetermination to safeguard the sovereignty of the country. Read full story

The techno-pop-rock band Gute Gute of Israel (Source: hanoimoi.com.vn)

- Thetechno-pop-rock band Gute Gute from Israel will 'salute' crowds in the capitalat a free-entrance show titled The Israeli Dream Beat at the August RevolutionSquare in Hanoi on June 23. Read full story./.
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