Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.
-PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiahright after meeting with members of the House of Bolkiah in Bandar SeriBegawan capital on February 11 morning.
Sultan Bolkiah affirmed that Brunei alwaystreasures and wishes to keep developing its partnership with Vietnam,especially in economy, trade, investment, education and agriculture.Read full text
-Vietnamese PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh also held a roundtable discussion with Brunei energy andoil and gas enterprises in Bandar Seri Begawan capital on February 11, as partof his ongoing visit to Brunei.
Delegates discussed and proposed new businessideas and opportunities to lift bilateral economic, trade and investment ties,especially in energy and oil and gas.Read full text
-The same day Chinh received Minister of Finance andEconomy II of Brunei Dato Seri Setia Dr Awang Haji Mohd Amin Liew Abdullah, thelast activity in his two-day official visit to the country.Read full text
-Theofficial visits to Singapore and Brunei by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, hisspouse and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation from February 8-11 have beensuccessful, contributing to lifting Vietnam-Singapore strategic partnership andVietnam-Brunei comprehensive partnership to a greater height, said Minister ofForeign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.
Talking with the press about the outcomes of thevisits, Minister Son said they were the first visits to the Southeast Asiancountries by the Vietnamese PM since the 13th National Party Congress and theCOVID-19 outbreak. It was also the first visit to Singapore by the PM afternearly five years and the first to Brunei after nearly 16 years.Read full text
-PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh on February 12 asked to the Red River Delta region tomake most of its potential and advantages for rapid and sustainable developmentso as to lead the country’s economic restructuring and growth modeltransformation.
The PM made the requirement while chairing aconference in Quang Ninh province on the implementation of the Government’sAction Programme to realise the Politburo’s Resolution on directions forsocio-economic development and defence and security assurance in the Red RiverDelta to 2030, with a vision to 2045.Read full text
-Ship378 of Brigade 167 under the Naval Region 2 and HMS Spey, the British RoyalNavy’s offshore patrol vessel, conducted a joint exercise on the waters of BaRia-Vung Tau province on February 11.
The two sides exercised together in terms ofmobilising the squad, carrying out procedures for greeting each other at seaand exchanging information, and implementing the Code for Unplanned Encountersat Sea (CUES) of the navies of Western Pacific countries.Read full text
-Therescue mission of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security discovered and coordinated with internationalforces to rescue a victim trapped in the rubble caused by the 7.8 magnitudeearthquake in Turkey on February 11, the first day of their rescueoperation in Adiyaman city.
All76 Vietnamese military personnel together with about 40 tonnes of relief goodsand equipment are now ready to depart for Turkey to assist the country inrecovery efforts following the devastating earthquake.Read full text
-During a conference in Hanoi on February 11, theGeneral Department of Logistics assigned tasks to the military medicine teamdispatched to Turkey.Read full text
-VietnameseAmbassador to Italy Duong Hai Hung has held working sessions with leaders ofcredit group CDP, Simest credit institution of CDP, credit and insurance groupSACE and the General Confederationof Italian Industry (Confindustria) of Italy as part of theembassy's economic diplomacy activities of in 2023.
According to Pasquale Salzano - President ofSimest, General Director in charge of European and international affairs of CDPGroup, Vietnam is in the strategic priority list of Simest.Read full text
-TheMinistry of Health (MoH) has officially added COVID-19 to the list ofoccupational diseases, meaning that certain employees will be able to makesocial insurance payment claims if they contracted the coronavirus.
According to Circular 02/2023/TT-BYT amendingCircular 15/2016/TT-BYT stipulating occupational diseases entitled to socialinsurance recently issued by the MoH, COVID-19 will become the 35thoccupational disease, starting from April 1, 2023.Read full text
-Vietnamhas been elected vice chair of the 24-member UNESCO IntergovernmentalCommittee of the 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of theDiversity of Cultural Expressions, representing the Asia-Pacific region, aspart of the committee’s 16th session.Read full text
-NguyenThi Oanh made a triumphant statement by securing a gold medal in the women's1,500-metre event at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana City,Kazakhstan, on February 11.Read full text/.
