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☕ Afternoon briefing on May 17

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency on May 17.
☕ Afternoon briefing on May 17 ảnh 1

Hanoi (VNA) – Thefollowing is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam NewsAgency on May 17.

-National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue met with Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh in Vientiane on May 17, where the two leaders discussed measures to promote bilateral relations. Read full story

- The Vietnamese National Assembly is willing to create conditions for its Finance-Budget Committee to share financial supervision experience with the Lao Ministry of Finance, said NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

Receiving Lao Finance Minister Bounchom Oubonpaserth in Vientiane on May 16 during his official visit to the neighbouring country, NA Chairman Hue appreciated the two finance ministries’ organisation of mutual visits and experience sharing. Read full story

- Chairman of the Vietnamese NationalAssembly Vuong Dinh Hue received Malaythong Kommasith,President of State Audit Organisation of Laos, in Vientianeon May 16 afternoon as part of his official visit to the neighbouring country. Read full story

☕ Afternoon briefing on May 17 ảnh 2Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (left) and UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed. (Photo: VNA)

- Vietnam will continue bringing into play its role and making more active andconstructive contributions to the common work of the United Nations in all thethree pillars – security-politics, development and human rights, affirmed PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh during his meetings with UN leaders in New York on May16. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has met with leaders of global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) andVisa Group in New York and held phone talks with the Deputy ManagingDirector of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during his trip to the US. Read full story

- State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed that the Party and State always consider ethnic affairs a strategic task in the country’s revolutionary cause, while receiving a delegation of reputable people from ethnic minority groups in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang on May 17.
 
 Attention is always paid to the implementation of socio-economic and cultural development projects and ensuring of defence and security in the ethnic-populated and mountainous areas in a bid to raising the local living standards, Phuc stressed. Read full story

- The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Social Democratic Party ofGermany (SPD) convened their seventh dialogue in Berlin on May 16, talkinggreen growth in line with environmental protection and climate changeadaptation in the two countries.

Politburo member and Chairman of theCentral Theory Council Nguyen Xuan Thang and Minister of State in the Ministryof Labour, Social Affairs, Transformation and Digitisation of the State ofRhineland-Palatinate Alexander Schweitzer, an SPD member, co-chaired thedialogue. Read full story

- Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut.Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien is leading a Vietnamese delegation to the ASEAN DefenceSenior Officials’ Meeting (ADSOM) and the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’Meeting Plus (ADSOM ) which is taking place in Phnom Penh on May 17-18.

 The two meetings, officially opened on May 17morning, are being chaired by General Nem Sowat, Director General of GeneralDepartment of Policy & Foreign Affairs under the Cambodian Ministry ofNational Defence. Read full story

- The Regional Comprehensive EconomicPartnership (RCEP), which entered into force on January 1, 2022, is expected toboost Vietnam’s export and improve its access to large consumer markets,according Standard Chartered Bank.

 In its latest Global Research Report titled“Vietnam–RCEP: Opportunities and challenges”, the bank said the membership inthe pact further strengthens Vietnam’s trade position and should contribute tothe post-pandemic recovery this year. Major export categories that are expectedto benefit from the RCEP include information technology, textiles, footwear,agriculture, automobile and telecommunications. Read full story

☕ Afternoon briefing on May 17 ảnh 3Three Vietnamese athletes after winning their gold medal in Taekwondo. (Photo: VNA)

- Vietnam has so far obtained 197medals, including 88 golds, at the ongoing SEA Games 31, topping the tally andleaving other competitors far behind.

 On May 16 alone, Vietnamese athletes secured20 gold medals, including five in Pencak Silat, four in athletics, four inTaekwondo, two in gymnastics, and two in swimming./. Read full story

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☕ Afternoon briefing on May 14

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Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Truong Thang (R) meets with French Ambassador to Vietnam Olivier Brochet in Hanoi on May 13. (Photo: qdnd.vn)

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