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☀️ Morning digest January 4

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest January 4 ảnh 1
Hanoi (VNA) - The following isa list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

- The 15th National Assembly’s second extraordinary meetingwill open on January 5 and close on January 9, NA Deputy Secretary GeneralNguyen Truong Giang told a press conference in Hanoi on January 3.

☀️ Morning digest January 4 ảnh 2At the press conference (Photo: VNA)
During the sitting, legislators will consider and approve therevised Law on Medical Examination and Treatment and three Resolutions,including a Resolution on the National Master Plan for the 2021-2030 periodwith a vision to 2050, a Resolution on policies related to COVID-19 preventionand control and the continued use of certificates of circulation of medicinesand medicinal ingredients which expired on January 1.Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hashighlighted the motto of “Solidarity, Discipline - Mettle, Flexibility -Innovation, Creativity - Timeliness, Effectiveness” in order to realise thegoals set for 2023.

☀️ Morning digest January 4 ảnh 3PM Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA)
At a teleconference between the Government andlocalities on January 3, PM Chinh said 2023 is a core year to fulfill the goalsset in the 2021-2025 plan amid global risks and challenges as well asdifficulties and limited economic resilience in the country. Read full story

- The Singapore-based United Overseas Bank(UOB) has kept its forecast for Vietnam's GDP growth in 2023 unchanged at 6.6%in line with the official forecast of 6.5%, although growth momentum is likelyto be weaker.

In its report on Vietnam's economic growth inthe last quarter of 2022 and prospects for 2023, the bank said Vietnam's realGDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 returned to normal at 5.92% year onyear, due to signs of a decline in external demand. There was a sharp increaseof 13.67% in the third quarter.Read full story

- Total State budget collection was estimated at over 1,803trillion VND (76.6 billion USD) in 2022, equivalent to 127.8% of the estimate,up 15% year on year, reported the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on January 3.

The domestic revenues to the State budget were 21.8% higher thanthe estimate, marking an annual increase of 9.9%. Meanwhile, those from crudeoil and exports-imports rose by 74.3% and 32.7% year-on-year, respectively. Read full story

-The average salary bonus for Tet is estimated to increase byabout 10% compared to the previous Lunar New Year.

Tong Van Lai, Deputy Director of the LabourRelations and Wage Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs, said that all provinces and cities had sent their reports on salarysituations this year and plans for Tet bonus for their workers. Read full story

- The Ministry of Public Security is striving to completeinvestigations into the Viet A and rescue flight cases in January, Chief of theOffice of the ministry Lieut. Gen To An Xo informed the press during theGovernment’s regular press conference in Hanoi on January 3.

The number of defendants in those cases may increase in thecoming time, Xo said. Read full story

- Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong hasemphasised the necessity to strengthen supervision and take moresamples for COVID-19 testing at border gates besides maintaining thecurrent pandemic prevention and control measures as usual.

Addressing a meeting on disease surveillance andresponse of the Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOC) underthe Ministry of Health on January 2,  the official said Vietnam needs tomake careful preparations to effectively control the pandemic, in the contextof some countries changing their COVID-19 control policy./.Read full story

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