Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
-President Vo Van Thuong met voters in the central city of DaNang on April 27 ahead of the fifth session of the 15th National Assembly.
Local voters voiced their opinions over amendmentsto the Land Law, support for businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,efforts to fight corruption and high-tech crime, and scientific-technologicalapplication in farming.Read full text
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 27 attended aceremony to launch the Action Month on Occupational Safety and Hygiene and theMonth for Workers in 2023, during which he stressed the need to pay moreattention to labourers, and listen to their thoughts and aspirations.
Speaking at the event, PM Chinh stressed theeconomic restructuring, the change in production and business methods, thetransfer of labourers between regions, economic zones and enterprises requireworkers to quickly and flexibly adapt to these changes.Read full text
- Vietnamattaches importance and gives priority to the development of multi-facetedcooperative relations with China, which includes the comprehensive andeffective collaboration between China’s Chongqing Municipality and Vietnameselocalities, an official of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has said.
TruongThi Mai, a Politburo member, permanent member of the CPV Central Committee’sSecretariat and head of the Central Committee’s Organisation Commission, madethe statement at a meeting on April 27 with Hu Henghua, Deputy Secretaryof Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of theMunicipality, as part of her visit to the locality.Read full text
-The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), in collaborationwith the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam, organised aninternational workshop on “Experience in reporting under the UPR mechanism.”
In his remarks, Director of the MoFA’s Departmentof International Organisations Pham Hai Anh noted that since joining theUniversal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, Vietnam has shown its seriousnessand responsibility, with more recommendations accepted by the country, reaching83% of the UPR third cycle recommendations, higher than the average of othercountries.Read full text
- Vietnam is among four countries demonstrating genderparity in digital skills, according to a new UNICEF analysis which was issued onInternational Day of Girls in ICT (April 27).
When it comes to the gender parity, analysis ininternet use among the youth has been achieved in only eight of 54 countriesand territories analysed. However, around 90% of adolescent girls and youngwomen do not use the internet in low-income countries, while their male peersare twice as likely to be online.Read full text
-The4th Global Conference of the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Food SystemProgramme (SFS Programme) concluded in Hanoi on April 27, spotlighting theimportance of the transformation of the food system, heard a press conferenceheld by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on the sameday.
Addressingthe event, Nguyen Do Anh Tuan, Director of the MARD's International CooperationDepartment said the event saw the in-person participation of 337 delegates,including 200 foreign delegates from 60 countries, the United Nations agencies,international organisations, State management agencies, and research andtraining establishments.Read full text
-The corporate sector, including both FDI and domesticenterprises, has invested about 9 billion USD in fields related to green growthand green development, an official said at a workshop named “FDI Enterprises inVietnam’s Green Growth” held on April 27.
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Ministryof Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency said that green growthand sustainable development are an indispensable requirement and common trendthat every country in the world wants to achieve.Read full text
--Ho Chi Minh City led the nation in exports last year as unveiledby the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) in its annual report on importsand exports, released in Hanoi on April 27.
This is the seventh year in a row the ministry hascompiled the report, which gave an insight into each group of commodities,markets, the utilisation of opportunities generated by free trade agreements,and export-import management, said Phan Van Chinh, Director of the MoIT’sAgency of Foreign Trade.Read full text
-Asof April 27, a total of 1,237 journalists have registered to cover the upcoming32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32) and the 12th ASEAN Para Games inCambodia.
Thefigure was unveiled by the Ministry of Information’s General Department ofInformation and Broadcasting (INB) which is in charge of media registration.
Amongthe registered journalists, there are 162 foreign reporters from 16 countries.Read full text/.
