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☕ Afternoon briefing on June 21

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
☕ Afternoon briefing on June 21 ảnh 1

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.

- The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea(RoK) to Vietnam, Oh Young Ju, has said the upcoming Vietnam visit by the RoK’sPresident Yoon Suk Yeol from June 22-24 holds significance as it is the firstyear the two countries have deployed their Comprehensive strategic partnership.

☕ Afternoon briefing on June 21 ảnh 2RoK President Yoon Suk Yeol (Photo: VNA)

It will be the first State visit to Vietnam by theRoK President, and Vietnam is the first Southeast Asian country that the leaderwill visit since he took office in May 2022. Read full story

- The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force's largest destroyer,Izumo, and accompanying destroyer JS Samidare docked at Cam Ranh InternationalPort in the south central province of Khanh Hoa on June 20, starting theirvisit to Vietnam from June 20-23.

☕ Afternoon briefing on June 21 ảnh 3The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force's largest destroyer, Izumo, and accompanying destroyer JS Samidare docked at Cam Ranh International Port on June 20. (Photo: VNA)

Colonel Nguyen Thai Hoc, Deputy Chief of Staff of Naval Region 4High Command presided over a welcome ceremony for the Japanese destroyers. Onboard of the destroyers is a delegation of 559 officers and sailors,led by Rear Admiral Nishiyama Takahiro, commander of the Izumo's flotilla. Read full story

- The application of global minimum corporatetax from the beginning of 2024 is expected to be an effective tool to preventtransfer pricing and tax evasion, thus helping to increase State revenuethrough additional tax collection.

Vu Chi Hung, Deputy General Director of theMinistry of Finance’s General Department of Taxation, affirmed that theministry and taxation sector have always paid attention to fighting transferpricing to prevent tax losses. Read full story

- Vietnam has continued to be excluded from theUS Department of the Treasury’s monitoring list of currency manipulators in itslatest report on macro-economic and foreign exchange policies of major tradingpartners of the US.

☕ Afternoon briefing on June 21 ảnh 4The headquarters of the State Bank of Vietnam in Hanoi (Photo: congthuong.vn)

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) said that thereport, released on June 17, continued to base on three criteria to makeassessments, namely trade surplus with the US, current account surplus, andpersistent and one-sided intervention in the foreign currency market. Read full story

- Credit growth since the start of 2023 remainslow, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu said,blaming that fact on both subjective and objective causes.

The SBV set this year’s credit growth target forbanks at 11%, but total outstanding loans in the economy had reached some 12.32quadrillion VND (over 523.9 billion USD) as of June 15, increasing 3.36% fromthe end of 2022 – a relatively slow pace compared to previous years, Tu told apress briefing on June 21.Read full story

- Former Secretary of the Party CentralCommittee and former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan passed away after a periodof illness at 7:05 am on June 21 at the 108 Military Central Hospital in Hanoi,according to the Central Committee on Health Care for Senior GovernmentalOfficials.

The memorial services and burial ceremony for theformer official will be announced later. Read full story

- Vietnam defeated Syria 1-0 in a friendly match on June20 at Thien Truong Stadium in the northern province of Nam Dinh for FIFADays.  

☕ Afternoon briefing on June 21 ảnh 5The friendly match against Syria is the second match of the national football team under French coach Philippe Troussier. (Photo: VNA)

It’s the second match of the national football teamunder French coach Philippe Troussier. Earlier, the team won 1-0 in a friendlyagainst Hong Kong (China)./. Read full story

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