Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had aworking session with the military-run telecommunications service providerViettel in Hanoi on April 9 regarding the group’s research and productionactivities in the high-tech defence industry.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the working session with Viettel (Photo: VNA) Chinh stressed that products researched anddeveloped by Viettel, especially strategic ones, have been contributing tolaying a foundation for building the nation’s proactive, self-reliant,self-sufficient, dual-use, and modern defence industry. They help promote theinternal strength to develop the sector as the spearhead of the nationalindustry.Read full text
-National Assembly (NA) Chairman VuongDinh Hue attended a Vietnam - China people’s friendship meeting that also sawthe presence of many intellectuals, scholars, researchers on Vietnam, andrepresentatives of businesses and young people in Beijing on April 9.
NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (second from right) and a Chinese delegate at the people’s friendship meeting in Beijing on April 9. (Photo: VNA) President of the Vietnam Union of FriendshipOrganisations (VUFO) Phan Anh Son said that over the past years, VUFO and itsmember organisations have actively coordinated with the Chinese People’sAssociation for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), other people’sorganisations, and localities of China to hold many meaningful activitieshelping educate people, particularly the young, on the two countries’traditional friendship.Read full text
-National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hueattended a Vietnam - China seminar on State-owned enterprises (SoE) reform andmanagement of state capital at enterprises in Beijing on April 9.
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue attends the seminar in Beijing on April 9. (Photo: VNA) The event, part of the top legislator’s officialvisit to China, saw the presence of Vietnamese and Chinese officials and 250delegates representing over 100 businesses of the two countries.Read full text
-Chairmanof the National Assembly (NA)'s Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh on April9 met with Chairman of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of theNational People’s Congress of China (NPC) Zhong Shan in Beijing within theframework of the official visit to China by NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
At the meeting between Chairman of the National Assembly's Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh and Chairman of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress of China (NPC) Zhong Shan. (Photo: VNA) The two sides agreed that the meeting is of significanceand a concrete step for the two committees to discuss measures to effectivelyimplement the common perception reached between the two countries’ top Partyand State leaders as stated in the Vietnam-China Joint Declarations issued in2022 and 2023 and the spirit and content of the new cooperation agreementrecently signed by NA Chairman Hue and Chairman of the Standing Committee ofthe NPC Zhao Leji during Hue’s official visit.Read full text
-The Presidents of theSolidarity Front for the Development of Cambodian Motherland (SFDCM), the LaoFront for National Construction (LFNC), and the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)gathered at their 5th conference in Vientiane on April 9.
The fifth conference of the presidents of the Cambodian, Lao, and Vietnamese fronts in Vientiane on April 9 (Photo: VNA) The event saw the presence of President of theSFDCM National Council Samdech Mem Sam An, President of the LFNC CentralCommittee Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune, and President of the VFF Central CommitteeDo Van Chien.Read full text
-Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui ThanhSon hosted a reception on April 9 for Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher,the Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States and InternationalOrganisations who is on a visit to the country.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son (right) and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations of the Vatican. (Photo: VNA) Welcoming Gallagher's first visit to Vietnam asthe Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and InternationalOrganisations, Son said he believes that the visit will contribute to promotinggood relations between Vietnam and the Holy See.Read full text
-The Party Central Committee’s Secretariaton April 9 discussed and imposed disciplinary measures on some Party memberscommitting wrongdoings in the provinces of Vinh Phuc, Quang Ngai, Phu Yen, HaGiang, and Gia Lai.
Given the content, nature, level,consequences, and causes of their wrongdoings and pursuant to the Party’sregulations on disciplinary measures for violating Party members, theSecretariat decided to expel all the seven individuals from the Party.Read full text
-Thetax sector’s total state budget revenue in the first quarter of 2024 wasestimated at 490.2 trillion VND (19.64 billion USD), equal to 33% of theestimate for the year, and 10.9% higher than the figure of the same period lastyear, the General Department of Taxation announced on April 9.
Of the total revenue, domestic revenue was estimated at474.46 trillion VND, equal to 32.9% of the estimate for 2024, an increase of11.5% over the same period in 2023.Read full text
-Workplace well-being is on an “upwardtrajectory” throughout Asia-Pacific, with Vietnam (65.09) leading the region,according to a recent study by Asia's largest mental health care companyIntellect.
Other leading countries include Thailand (65.01),the Philippines (64.44), Malaysia (64.22), Singapore (63.98), Japan (63.77),China (63.61), and Indonesia (63.55).Read full text
-Vietnam sent more than 35,900 labourersto work abroad under contracts in the first quarter of 2024, according to theDepartment of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs (MoLISA).
Japan and Taiwan (China) continued to be thelargest recipients of Vietnamese guest workers. Other markets included theRepublic of Korea (RoK), China, Singapore, Romania, Thailand, Macau (China),Saudi Arabia and Hungary.Read full text
-ThePeople’s Committee of the southern province of Binh Duong, in collaborationwith the British Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, organised a conferenceon green energy on April 9, aiming to optimise the use of renewable energy andfacilitate knowledge exchange between the locality and experts on sustainableenergy development.
On this occasion, the Eastern InternationalUniversity, Becamex IDC, the UK’s Q-Energy and the British Chamber of CommerceVietnam, announced a cooperation project on energy solutions.Read full text/.
