Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
- Party General Secretary and President To Lam on August 14 chaired a meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena.
The Hanoi meeting looked into the work in the first half of this year and tasks for the remainder, along with the handling of cases under the monitoring of the committee, and the performance of provincial steering committees in the realm. Read full story
- Party General Secretary and State President To Lam met with retired senior officials of the People's Public Security Force in Hanoi on August 14, on the occasion of the force's 79th anniversary and the 19th anniversary of the All-People National Security Safeguarding Day (August 19).
Lam extended his sincere greetings and best wishes to the attendees, congratulating them on the force’s achievements and successes over the past 79 years. Read full story
- Social policy credit has been a “highlight”, and a “pillar” in the system of policies aimed at alleviating poverty and ensuring social security, meeting the desire of the people, particularly impoverished and disadvantaged groups, over the past decade, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on August 14.
He made the remarks while chairing a teleconference to review 10 years carrying out Directive No. 40-CT/TW of the 11th Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on enhancing the Party’s leadership over social policy credit. Read full story
- The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee wrapped up the three-day thematic session on law building in preparation for the coming 8th session of the 15th legislature on August 14.
Committee members scrutinised 10 draft laws, namely the Law on Geology and Minerals, the Law on amendments and supplements to several articles of the Law on Pharmacy, the revised Law on Trade Unions, the revised Law on Human Trafficking Prevention and Control, the revised Law on Notarisation, the revised Law on Cultural Heritage, the Law on Urban Planning and Rural Planning, the Law on Fire Prevention, Fighting and Rescue, the revised Law on Value Added Tax, and the Law on Justice for Minors. Read full story
- Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of its Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung chaired talks with a delegation from the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) led by General Secretary Paulo Raimundo in Hanoi on August 14.
Trung expressed thanks to Paulo Raimundo and other PCP leaders for their heartfelt condolence letters on the passing of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and congratulatory messages to President To Lam on his election as the new Party chief of Vietnam. These gestures, he noted, are testament to the fraternity and comradeship as well as strong solidarity between the two Parties. Read full story
- More than 17,100 apartments and land plots of real estate projects across the country remain on the market in the second quarter of this year, with land plots and houses doubling that of apartments, the Ministry of Construction (MoC) reported on August 14.
Accordingly, the inventory of land plots and houses was 7,061 and 7,045, respectively, while that of apartments was nearly 3,000. Read full story
- A conference to review the results of a project on expanding opportunities and improving the status for persons with disabilities for the 2021-2024 period was jointly organised by the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of central Thua Thien-Hue province and the Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) on August 14.
The project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) via ACDC with a total budget of more than 4.5 billion VND (178,790 USD). Read full story
- Amid the surging demand for semiconductor engineers driven by the AI boom, many companies are turning to Vietnam for its talent pool and competitive labour costs, positioning the Southeast Asian nation as a "magnet" for major players in the chip industry.
According to an article published by Nikkei Asia on August 14, Alchip Technologies, Taiwan's leading provider of AI chip design services, is expanding its R&D team into Vietnam, where it is planning to open its first office this year. The company is likely to increase its headcount to up to 100 engineering staff in 2-3 years, CFO Daniel Wang said./. Read full story
