Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
- The National Assembly passed the Capital Law (revised) with the approval of 462 out of 470 participating deputies on June 28 morning during its seventh session.
The revised law, which will take effect from January 1 next year, consists of seven chapters with 54 articles, clearly defining the position and role of the capital city; policies and responsibilities for construction, development, management, and protection of the capital. Read full story
- With 464 “yes” votes from the 469 attending deputies, the 15th National Assembly on June 28 passed a resolution on the investment policy for a project to build the North-South Expressway’s Gia Nghia-Chon Thanh western section, as part of its ongoing seventh session.
The section, spanning from Gia Nghia in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong to Chon Thanh in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, has a total length of 128.8km and total investment of 25.54 trillion VND (over 1 billion USD). Read full story
- Each individual and business should be well aware of benefits brought about by the project on developing resident data, electronic identification and authentication applications to serve national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period, with a vision to 2030 (Project 06), and should play a role in its implementation, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on June 28.
Addressing a hybrid conference reviewing the implementation of the project in Hanoi, the PM, also head of the National Committee for Digital Transformation, called the awareness work a decisive factor in this regard, saying communications activities should be held in various forms through the media. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s official visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) from June 30 to July 3 is expected to help consolidate political trust and deepen the strategic cooperation between the two nations, RoK Prime Minister Han Duck Soo has said.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the threshold of the visit, Han highlighted that the visits by high-ranking leaders of the two nations have contributed significantly to their close ties, elaborating Vietnam and the RoK have built the world’s leading exemplary cooperative relations over the past 30 years and become important trade partners of each other with two-way trade amounting to nearly 100 billion USD and expected to reach 150 billion USD by 2030. Read full story
- Vietnam boasts a great opportunity to develop semiconductor and AI industries as it has abundant and well-trained young workforce, Dr. Richard Lawton Thurston, one of leading non-engineer semiconductor experts in the US, told Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung at a meeting in Washington D.C on June 26.
Thurston, who is also former Senior Vice President of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., (TSMC), stressed that AI technology requires various components such as sensors, memory, data collection, and processing, that is why Vietnam can choose one of these stages to focus on for development and build its own strategy. Read full story
- Vietnam has recorded an estimated agro-forestry-fishery trade surplus of 8.28 billion USD during the first half of 2024, surging 62.4% year on year, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Agro-forestry-fishery exports totaled about 29.2 billion USD in H1, up 19% from the same period last year, while imports stand at some 20.92 billion USD, statistics show. Read full story
- The General Statistics Office (GSO) and the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will jointly conduct information collection for a survey on socio-economic situation of the 53 ethnic minority groups across the country from July 1, according to the GSO.
The survey’s findings will be an important foundation for designing socio-economic development policy for the ethnic-minority-inhabited and mountainous areas in the 2026-2030 period, the GSO said. Read full story
- Generative AI, smart camera, data analytic and prediction, and robotic process automation were among the nearly 100 made-in-Vietnam AI solutions for enterprises introduced at a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28.
The event was organised by the HCM City centre for digital transformation (DX Centre) in collaboration with the Vietnam IT Outsourcing Alliance (VNITO) and partners. Read full story./.
