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☀️ Morning digest March 29

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest March 29 ảnh 1
Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries lastnight by Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest March 29 ảnh 2An overview of the dialogue (Photo: VNA)
- Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Hieu and the UK's Minister of State forAsia and the Middle East Amanda Milling co-chaired the eighth Vietnam-UKstrategic dialogue in Hanoi on March 28, during which both sides discussedcooperation and specific measures to develop the Vietnam-UK strategicpartnership in a substantive and effective manner, especially inpolitics-diplomacy, trade-investment, climate change response and sustainabledevelopment, education-training, science-technology, security-defence, andpeople-to-people exchange. Read full story

☀️ Morning digest March 29 ảnh 3At the event (Photo: qdnd.vn)
- Vietnam appreciates Cuba's prestige, experience, and strength in the field ofconstruction, said Politburo member and Defence Minister General Phan Van Giangwhile receiving Cuban Minister of Construction René Antonio Mesa Villafana inHanoi on March 28. Read full story

- Vietnam and Australia on March 28 signed the first bilateral Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) under the Australian Agriculture Visa Programme. Under theprogramme, employees will be recruited to work across a range of agriculturesectors, including horticulture, dairy, wool, grains, fisheries and forestry,including support services and primary processing. Read full story

- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), the World EconomicForum (WEF) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) organised a ceremony onMarch 28 to introduce the working group of the National Plastic ActionPartnership (NPAP). Read full story

- A ceremony took place at the My Son World Cultural Heritage Site in thecentral province of Quang Nam on March 28 to celebrate the 50th foundinganniversary of the Vietnam-India diplomatic relations (January 7, 1972 – 2022)and review five years of the two governments’ joint work to renovate the site(2017 – 2021). Read full story

- Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, on March 28 announced the expansionof the She’s Next Grant Programme in Vietnam to support women entrepreneurs incapital mobilisation, business governance and development. Read full story

☀️ Morning digest March 29 ảnh 4Vietnam’s former world silver medalist Nguyen Thi Ngoan wins gold in the women’s U61kg class at the ninth Southeast Asian Karate Championship in Cambodia. (Photo of tournament organisers)
- Vietnam, with five gold, five silver, and three bronze medals, topped theninth Southeast Asian Karate Championship, which closed in Cambodia on March27. Read full story./.
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An overview of the meeting between National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai and representatives from the Standing Committee on Finance under the Indian Lok Sabha (Photo: VNA)

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