Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last weekend by VietnamNews Agency.
- Under imperialism, “Black Lives Don’t Matter”- an assessment by President HoChi Minh in an article, was a prediction for the rise of the “Black LivesMatter” movement, which started in 2013, commented Joe Pateman from theUniversity of Nottingham in the UK at a talk held by York Centre for AsianResearch in Ottawa, Canada on February 19 on the book entitled “The Black Raceby Ho Chi Minh and Selected Works on Systemic Racism” compiled by Nguyen DaiTrang. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception for visiting Executive Vice President of the European Commission (EC) Frans Timmermans in Hanoi on February 18. Read full story
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) receives Executive Vice President of the European Commission (EC) Frans Timmermans (Photo: VNA) Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien also had a meeting the same day with visiting Executive Vice President of the European Commission (EC) Frans Timmermans, during which the two sides sought cooperation orientations in the future, especially in energy and power transformation. Read full story
Meanwhile, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan affirmed that the EU is an important, traditional and potential partner of Vietnamese agricultural products, especially when the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) comes into effect, creating a great opportunity to boost agro-forestry-fishery trade, at a working session with the visiting EC official. Read full story
- Amazon Web Services Inc (AWS) has announced plans to launch a new AWSLocal Zone in Hanoi, which will give customers in Vietnam the ability to offerend users single-digit millisecond performance designed to suit applicationssuch as remote real-time gaming, media and entertainment content creation, livevideo streaming, engineering simulations, augmented and virtual reality, andmachine learning inference at the edge. Read full story
- The Ministry of Transport announced on February 19 that it had directed relevant agencies to provide information and documents related to the flights repatriating Vietnamese citizens from abroad to the Investigation Police Agency under the Ministry of Public Security to serve the investigation into the “taking bribery” case at the Consular Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read full story
- Auto businesses enjoyed positive annual earnings thanks to flourishingprofits in the fourth quarter.
The Vietnam Engine and Agricultural MachineryCorporation (VEA), whose joint venture companies include Honda Vietnam, ToyotaVietnam, and Ford Vietnam. ended 2021 with revenue of 4.02 trillion VND(176.4 million USD), an increase of 9.6 percent compared to 2020. Read full story
- The Australian government is preparing for the pilot export of the country’speaches and nectarines to Vietnam in the coming months, Minister forAgriculture David Littleproud has said. The first shipment of these fruits will be deliveredto Vietnam in March and April, paving the way for a larger volume to arrive inearly December. Read full story
- Australia has delivered 3.6 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnamover recent weeks through a procurement agreement with UNICEF and inpartnership with Vietnam's Ministry of Health, the Australian Embassy announcedin a press release from on February 19. The last batch of 2.2 milliondoses arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City onFebruary 19. Read full story
UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers (right) and Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie (left) with the vaccines delivered to the country. (Photo: VNA) - The People’s Committee of Hanoi on February 18 agreed with the cityDepartment of Education and Training's proposal to adjust the plan to allowstudents from grades one to six in 12 inner districts to return to school forface-to-face learning from February 21. The city's education department explained thatthe pandemic has worsened in the capital city with high number of newcases in the community every day, and a high rate of parents did not agree tolet their children return to school in the present situation. Read full text
-The Vietnam Peace Bella, a national beauty pageant licensed by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in early 2021, will begin in the central city of Da Nang on March 12 after it was temporarily postponed due to the impact of the pandemic. Read full story/.
