Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected newssummaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
- National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue offered severaldevelopment suggestions to the northern province of Tuyen Quang during aworking session with its key officials on January 30.
NA Chairman Hue suggested Tuyen Quang complete theprovincial planning pertaining land and urban development in line with theNational Master Plan which was approved by the legislature during the recentsecond extraordinary meeting.Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting withministries, sectors, and Mekong Delta localities in Can Tho city on January 30to look into the progress of some transport projects.
The working session followed his fact-finding tourof some key transport projects after the Lunar New Year holiday. Read full story
- Vietnamese people in Belarus and Bulgaria have joinedtheir compatriots in the homeland and around the world in celebrating the Yearof the Cat with different activities held recently.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Belarus has organised aprogramme attracting over 400 Vietnamese and their Belarusian relatives. Thiswas the first mass Tet gathering of the Vietnamese community in the Europeancountry after over two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read full story
- Lianhe Zaobao newspaper in Hong Kong (China) has run anarticle analysing Vietnam’s advantages that make the country the third pillarof the "golden triangle of startups" in Southeast Asia, together withIndonesia and Singapore.
The article cited the speech by VietnameseMinister of Plan and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung at a Startup Investment Forumon December 2022 as saying that in recent years, more and more FDI flows havecome to Vietnam’s startups. Read full story
- A ceremony was held at the Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamesebilingual school in Vientiane, Laos, on January 30 to present aid to itsteachers hit by the COVID-19 pademic.
The sum was sourced from the Ho Chi Minh Citychapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front’s Fund for the Poor. Read full story
- The Vietnam Airlines Group, including VietnamAirlines, Pacific Airlines and VASCO, served 2.4 million passengers on over14,500 domestic and international flights from January 6-29 whichwas the peak season of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
The group offered services to nearly 80,000passengers on nearly 500 flights on January 18. Later on January 29, itrecorded around 93,000 passengers with around 550 flights. Read full story
- The majority of workers of businesses and factories in HoChi Minh City, Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces, three major industrialhubs in the south, have returned to work after a long Lunar New Year (Tet)holiday, local authorities said.
The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs noted about 95% of employees in local agencies, factories, andbusinesses had been back to work as of January 30. Read full story
- The Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport served 5,619flights from January 19-29, up 49% annually, including 1,789 international and3,829 domestic flights.
The number of passengers hit nearly 900,000, up71%, including 246,000 foreigners. Read full story
- The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Financerevised up the prices of petrol in the latest adjustment on January 30.
Accordingly, the retail price of RON 95 went up 990 VND perlitre to 23,140 VND (0.91 USD) from 7pm the same day./. Read full story