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

-Adelegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) led by NA Vice ChairmanTran Quang Phuong attended the opening ceremony of the 148th Assembly of theInter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-148) and a plenary session in Geneva,Switzerland, on March 24.

☕ Afternoon briefing on March 22 ảnh 2NA Vice Chairman Tran Quang Phuong (second from right) attends the 148th IPU Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: VNA)

During the IPU-148, themed “Parliamentarydiplomacy: Building bridges for peace and understanding”, the delegates arescheduled to take part in plenary sessions of the assembly and the GoverningCouncil, along with meetings of the Standing Committee on Peace andInternational Security, the Committee on SustainableDevelopment, Finance and Trade, the Committee on Democracy andHuman Rights, and the Committee on United Nations Affairs.Read full text

-Vietnamcondemns all acts of terrorism in any form targeting civilians, including theterrorist attack that caused great loss in Russia on March 22 evening, saidVietnamese Ambassador Dang Minh Khoi.

According to latest statisticsreleased by Russian authorities, at least 137 people were killed and 182 othersinjured, many in severe conditions, after armed attackers stormed Crocus CityHall in Moscow and opened fire.Read full text

-Experience in social supervision and criticism was shared between the VietnamFatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Chinese People’sPolitical Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Shanghai Committee at their talks inHo Chi Minh City on March 25.

☕ Afternoon briefing on March 22 ảnh 3At the talks between the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee on March 25. (Photo: VNA)

Briefing the Chinese side of the city’seconomic-cultural-social situation in 2023, Vice Chairman of the VFF Committeeof Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Trung said that the city faced formidablechallenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts as well as complicated andunprecedented global and regional political-economic developments.Read full text

-Secretaryof the Party Committee of Ninh Binh province Doan Minh Huan expressed his hopefor stronger multi-faceted cooperation between the northern locality and theRepublic of Korea (RoK) at his reception for Korean Ambassador to Vietnam ChoiYoung-sam on March 25.

☕ Afternoon briefing on March 22 ảnh 4At the meeting between Secretary of the Party Committee of Ninh Binh province Doan Minh Huan (R) and Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Choi Young-sam. (Photo: VNA)

Briefing the ambassador on Ninh Binh’ssocio-economic situation, potential, strengths and development orientations,with its economy growing 7.27% last year, Huan lauded contributions by Koreanpartners to the province’s achievements.Read full text

-AVietnam – Canada business forum was held in Hanoi on March 25, aiming toenhance the bilateral economic relations via the Comprehensive and ProgressiveAgreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

In his opening remarks,Vice Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs underthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Manh Dong highlighted that OVs and OVbusinesses have unceasingly developed and affirmed their positions in foreigncountries over the past time.Read full text

-Visa, a global leader in digital payments, has provided its insights intoVietnam’s payment landscape with its latest Consumer Payment Attitudes studythat highlights the surge in cashless transactions among Vietnamese consumers.

Accordingto the study, 56% of Vietnamese respondents surveyed are now carrying lessphysical cash than they did a year ago, signaling a progressive mindset towardsembracing new financial technologies. Particularly, young consumers are playinga pioneering role in the shift towards cashless payment, with 89% of thesurveyed having successfully adopted cashless methods.Read full text

-The southern province of Tra Vinh has approved an investment worth 576 billionVND (23.26 million USD) to develop a petroleum storage terminal project by theTra Vinh Petrochemical and Energy Joint Stock Company.

The project isdeveloped on an area of more than 46ha in Kim Son commune, Tra Cu district. Itwill build a petroleum storage with a capacity 50,000cu.m and a terminal whichis capable of receiving 20,000 tonne vessels.Read full text

-TheAgency of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the ASEANSecretariat on March 25 opened a joint session of ASEAN and Korean experts onthe transposition of ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Agreement (AKFTA) product specificrules from harmonised system codes HS 2017 into HS 2022.

☕ Afternoon briefing on March 22 ảnh 5An overview of the joint session. (Photo: VNA)

Attending thethree-day event in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh arerepresentatives from the Republic of Korea (RoK) and 10 ASEAN member states.Read full text/.

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