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☀️ Morning digest May 30

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest May 30 ảnh 1

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

- Deputy PrimeMinister Tran Hong Ha received visiting Lao Minister of Technology andCommunications Boviengkham Vongdara in Hanoi on May 29.

☀️ Morning digest May 30 ảnh 2Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha (R) receives visiting Lao Minister of Technology and Communications Boviengkham Vongdara. (Photo: VNA) 

Welcoming agreements signed between the VietnamAcademy of Science and Technology (VAST) and the Lao Ministry of Technology andCommunications, Ha expressed his wish that the two sides will actively promotecooperation and technology transfer so that Vietnam and Laos can jointlyimplement digital and green transformation as soon as possible. Read full story

- A delegation of theVietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee held talks withrepresentatives from the National Council of the Solidarity Front for theDevelopment of Cambodian Motherland in Hanoi on May 29.

☀️ Morning digest May 30 ảnh 3At the talks between the delegations of the VFF Central Committee and the National Council of the Solidarity for the Development of Cambodian Motherland. (Photo: VNA)

At the talks, Vice President and Secretary Generalof the VFF Central Committee Nguyen Thi Thu Ha affirmed the fruitful relationsbetween the two sides, with the signing of cooperation documents. Read full story

- Agro-forestry-aquaticproduct exports were estimated at 20.26 billion USD in the first five months of2023, down 11.1% year on year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development (MARD).

Meanwhile, the country's imports also dropped 8.7%to 13.15 billion USD, resulting in a five-month trade surplus of 3.55billion USD, falling 21.1% from a year earlier. Read full story

- The Civil AviationAuthority of Vietnam (CAAV) will pilot the use of level-2 electronicidentification (eID) authentication for air passengers at airports nationwidefrom June 1 to August 1, it said in its recent report sent to the Ministry ofTransport.

The level 2 account is created in case theinformation of the declarant has been verified by a portrait photo or afingerprint that matches the information recorded in the country’sdatabases on population, citizen identity, or immigration. Read full story

- The first-everVietnam NASA Space Week will be held in Ho Chi Minh City and Hau Giang and BinhDinh provinces in the South from June 5-9, heard a press conference on May 29.

The event will be co-organised by the People’sCommittees of Hau Giang province, Thu Duc city (HCM City), and Binh Dinhprovince, and the HCM City Computer Association, with the support of the USNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Read full story

- A team of Vietnamesestudents won the third prize in the Cloud Track category of the Huawei ICTCompetition 2022-2023 Global Final held in China’s Shenzhen city, the Ministryof Information and Communications announced on May 29.

☀️ Morning digest May 30 ảnh 4Vietnamese students win the third prize in the Cloud Track category of the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final. (Photo courtesy of Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023)

The team members included Nguyen Quoc Hung fromthe Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), Tran Duc Lamand Vu Quang Hai from FPT University, under the guidance of Dr. Tran Tien Congof the PTIT. Read full story

- More than 77,000computers in Vietnam have suffered data encryption since December 2022,according to Bkav – a leading Vietnamese technology corporation thatspecialises in cyber security and software.

The corporation’s Technical Support Centre hasalso received hundreds of calls, asking for assistance in handling dataencryption malware./. Read full story

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