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☀️ Morning digest May 22

The following is a list of selected news summaries last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest May 22 ảnh 1

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 20 stressed thatpromoting a more substantive and effective global partnership, internationalsolidarity, and multilateral cooperation is key to solving today's complexchallenges.

☀️ Morning digest May 22 ảnh 2An overview of the summit (Photo: VNA)

In his remarks at the first plenary session of the expandedSummit of the Group of Seven (G7) in Hiroshima, Japan, the PM noted it isnecessary to ensure that people are the centre, driving force, subject,resource and goal of development. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met USPresident Joe Biden and President of the European Council (EC) Charles Michelon May 20, within the framework of the ongoing expanded summit of the G7.

☀️ Morning digest May 22 ảnh 3PM Pham Minh Chinh meets US President Joe Biden. (Photo: VNA)

Chinh and Biden agreed to maintain the exchange ofall-level delegations. Chinh held that bilateral relations havepositively developed over the recent past, with the economic-trade cooperationbeing the focus. President Biden spoke highly of the outcomes of the phonetalks with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has suggestedthe International Monetary Fund (IMF) continue with policy counselling for theVietnamese Government regarding economic management and improvement of toolsand policies related to fiscal, monetary and financial restructuring.

☀️ Morning digest May 22 ảnh 4PM Pham Minh Chinh (R) and IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva (Photo: VNA)

PM Chinh made the suggestion during a meeting withIMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Hiroshima city on May 20 on theoccasion of his attendance at the expanded Summit of the Group of Seven (G7)countries. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talkswith his Japanese counterpart Kishida Fumio on May 21 within the framework ofhis trip to attend the G7 expanded Summit.

☀️ Morning digest May 22 ảnh 5Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (L) and his Japanese counterpart  Fumio Kishida. (Photo: VNA)

This is the first Vietnam-Japan high-level talksto take place in Hiroshima, the hometown of PM Kishida, and the fifth betweenthe two PMs in more than a year. Read full story

- National flag carrier Vietnam Airlinesrecently launched a direct air route connecting Hanoi with India’s Mumbai so asto strengthen trade, and socio-cultural connectivity between the two nations.

This is the carrier’s second route connectingVietnam and India, after New Delhi capital. Read full story

- Occupations relating to informationtechnology, high-tech and supporting industries are employment groups with highrecruitment demand, experts have said.

Tran Anh Tuan, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh CityVocational Education Association, said the Fourth Industrial Revolutionhas fueled the expansion of labour market and professions, addingthat engineering technology is the most in-demand job of thefuture, accounting for 35% of the country’s total demand. Read full story

- Vietnam’s tourism may attract 10 millionforeign tourist arrivals this year, surpassing the target of 8 millionpreviously set by the sector, according to deputy head of the Vietnam NationalAdministration of Tourism (VNAT) Ha Van Sieu.

☀️ Morning digest May 22 ảnh 6Foreign tourists visit Temple of Literature (Photo: VNA)

In the first four months of this year, nearly 3.7million foreign tourists travelled to Vietnam, and the number of domestictourists was 38 million. Total revenue from tourists was estimated at 196.6trillion VND (8.3 billion USD)./. Read full story

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PM arrives in Vientiane, beginning official visit to Laos

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