☀️ Morning digest May 22
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 that promoting a more substantive and effective global partnership, international solidarity, and multilateral cooperation is key to solving today's complex challenges.
In his remarks at the first plenary session of the expanded
Summit of the Group of Seven (G7) in Hiroshima, Japan, the PM noted it is
necessary to ensure that people are the centre, driving force, subject,
resource and goal of development. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met US
President Joe Biden and President of the European Council (EC) Charles Michel
on May 20, within the framework of the ongoing expanded summit of the G7.
Chinh and Biden agreed to maintain the exchange of
all-level delegations. Chinh held that bilateral relations have
positively developed over the recent past, with the economic-trade cooperation
being the focus. President Biden spoke highly of the outcomes of the phone
talks with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has suggested
the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continue with policy counselling for the
Vietnamese Government regarding economic management and improvement of tools
and policies related to fiscal, monetary and financial restructuring.
PM Chinh made the suggestion during a meeting with
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Hiroshima city on May 20 on the
occasion of his attendance at the expanded Summit of the Group of Seven (G7)
countries. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks
with his Japanese counterpart Kishida Fumio on May 21 within the framework of
his trip to attend the G7 expanded Summit.
This is the first Vietnam-Japan high-level talks
to take place in Hiroshima, the hometown of PM Kishida, and the fifth between
the two PMs in more than a year. Read full story
- National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines
recently launched a direct air route connecting Hanoi with India’s Mumbai so as
to strengthen trade, and socio-cultural connectivity between the two nations.
This is the carrier’s second route connecting
Vietnam and India, after New Delhi capital. Read full story
- Occupations relating to information
technology, high-tech and supporting industries are employment groups with high
recruitment demand, experts have said.
Tran Anh Tuan, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City
Vocational Education Association, said the Fourth Industrial Revolution
has fueled the expansion of labour market and professions, adding
that engineering technology is the most in-demand job of the
future, accounting for 35% of the country’s total demand. Read full story
- Vietnam’s tourism may attract 10 million
foreign tourist arrivals this year, surpassing the target of 8 million
previously set by the sector, according to deputy head of the Vietnam National
Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Ha Van Sieu.
In the first four months of this year, nearly 3.7 million foreign tourists travelled to Vietnam, and the number of domestic tourists was 38 million. Total revenue from tourists was estimated at 196.6 trillion VND (8.3 billion USD)./. Read full story