Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
- President Nguyen Xuan Phuc presented 10 second-class and 7third-class Labour Orders to winners of International Olympiads andscience-technology competitions in 2022 at a meeting in Hanoi on December 26.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc presents the Labour Orders to students. (Photo: VNA) This year, the Ministry of Education and Training sent sevendelegations with 38 students to International Olympiads. As a result, all ofthem won prizes, including 13 golds, 12 silvers, eight bronzes and fiveconsolation prizes. Read full story
- The Government has focused on theimplementation of law-making and institutional improvement throughout 2022,said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the government’s last monthly law-makingsession this year in Hanoi on December 26.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA) The session, chaired by the PM, mulled over thedraft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law onPeople's Public Security, and proposes building such laws as the Law amendingand supplementing the Law on Credit Institutions; the Law on Citizenship Identification(amended); the Law on industrial defence, security and industrial mobilisation;and the Law on urban and rural planning.Read full story
- Foreign experts have dubbed the Vietnameseeconomy as a miracle in Asia and a bright spot of economic growth inAsia-Pacific as a result of the Vietnamese Government’s sound and effectiveeconomic management policies.
"Let Vietnam’s success story be told to theworld," said CEO of HSBC Vietnam Tim Evans at a conference between theVietnamese Prime Minister and foreign-invested firms in early September. Read full story
- Vietnam and the Czech Republic havecomplementary economic structures, so both sides will benefit from strongerbilateral cooperation, said Vietnamese Trade Counselor in the European nationNguyen Thi Hong Thuy.
Talking to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'sresident correspondent in Prague, Thuy said Vietnam has strength in theproduction of goods that the Czech Republic does not produce or produces littlesuch as light industrial and agro-forestry-aquatic products; while the Czech Republicis a powerhouse in heavy industry. Read full story
- Tax revenue from e-commerce activities hasincreased gradually over the years, but is still modest compared to the actualdevelopment of this activity.
The Ministry of Finance reported that revenue frome-commerce activities through organisations in Vietnam declared and paid onbehalf of contractor tax since 2018 has reached nearly 5.6 trillion VND (233.3million USD). Read full story
- Vietnam exported 1,700 tonnes of mango to theRepublic of Korea (RoK) for 7.4 million USD over the past 11 months of 2022, up19% in volume and 25% in value year-on-year, according to theAgency for Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
These figures helped Vietnam become the thirdlargest mango supplier for the RoK in the period, the agency said, addingthat the average export price of Vietnamese mangoes hit over 4,230 USD pertonne, 5% higher than that of the same period in 2021. Read full story
- More than 4.8 million Hanoi residents had their healthinsurance cards integrated into their chip-based ID cards as of December 26, ofwhich 271,000 people have put them into use.
Illustrative image (Source: VNA) The Hanoi Social Security (HSS) has coordinatedwith local health departments to facilitate medical checkups and treatmentcovered by such integrated insurance cards, the agency’s director Phan Van Mensaid, adding that 590 medical facilities in Hanoi have accepted the ID cards intheir services./. Read full story
