☀️ Morning digest on July 21

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

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

- The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) is willing to help Laos train officialsin people-elected agencies as well as experts for the Lao NA Office, NA ChairmanVuong Dinh Hue said while receiving Vice President of the Lao NA SounthoneXayachack in Hanoi on July 20. Read full story

- President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 20chaired a scientific symposium on theoretical and practical issues related tonational protection in the new situation.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc addresses the event (Photo: VNA)

The event aimed to seek valuable scientific foundations for policies of theParty and State in order to firmly protect the Socialist Vietnamese Fatherlandin the new situation. The event’s organisers received more than 50 reports withrich scientific contents. Read full story

- Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and his Indonesiancounterpart Retno Marsudi on July 20 co-chaired the fourth meeting of the JointCommittee on Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC-4) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read full story

- The European Union (EU) appreciates Vietnam's potential and wishes to furtherstrengthen cooperation with the country to build a sustainable agriculturalproduct supply chain, Janusz Wojciechowski, EUCommissioner for Agriculture, said at a working sessionwith Ambassador Nguyen Van Thao, head of the Vietnamesedelegation to the EU on July 19. Read full story
 
- Vietnam's TH Group will accelerate the implementation of its project in Moscowprovince of Russia, which is expected to be completed by June next year. Theinformation was unveiled during a working session between Vietnamese Ambassadorto Russia Dang Minh Khoi and the management board of TH Volokolamsk farmcomplex in Volokolamsk district. Read full story

- Budget carrier Vietjet and Boeing successfully reached an agreement toreaffirm a previously announced order for 200 737 MAX aircraft during the 2022Farnborough International AirShow in the United Kingdom.

Representatives of Vietjet and Boeing signed an agreement at the Farnborough International Airshow 2022 (Source: Vietjetair.com)

Accordingly, both sides will execute a flexible aircraft delivery schedule tosupport Vietjet’s growth plans as traffic across the world continues torecover. The first 50 aircraft will be delivered to Thai Vietjet, an affiliatecompany of Vietjet in Thailand. Read full story

- The press award on reducing plastic pollution in the ocean was launched inHanoi on July 20, along with a photo contest themed white pollution and itseffects on marine ecosystems. Jointly organised by the UNDP Vietnam, the WorldWide Fund for Nature in Vietnam (WWF-Vietnam), and the VTC News e-newspaper,the press award and the photo contest aim to promote the role of the media inreducing plastic pollution in the ocean. Read full story

- The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/ Dioxin (VAVA), incoordination with the Chemical Arms of the Vietnam People's Army and thePeople’s Committee of Kon Tum province, has opened an exhibition at Kon TumMuseum to mark the 61st anniversary of the Agent Orange (AO) disaster inVietnam and the 75th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day. Read full story./.
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