☀️ Morning digest on July 26
Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
- Vietnam and
Australia enjoyed strong growth in two-way trade in the first half of this year
at 38.45% to 8.01 billion USD for the first time, according to the Vietnam
Trade Office in Australia.
Head of the office Nguyen Phu Hoa said that in the first six months
of this year, Vietnam exported 2.78 billion USD worth of goods to Australia,
691.35 million USD higher than the same period last year. Read full story
- The Soc Son
waste-to-energy (WTE) plant, located at the Nam Son Waste Treatment Complex in
Hanoi, was connected to the national grid on July 25.
Nguyen Thi Hong Van, general director of market development
in Southeast Asia for Thien Y Environmental Energy JSC, the project’s investor,
said from now until the end of September, the plant will operate an incinerator
with a capacity of handling 800 tonnes of waste daily. It can produce 15MW of
electricity for the grid per hour. Read full story
- Japan’s Sharp
Corporation would build another large-scale project in the southern province of
Binh Duong, specialising in smart, high-tech products, its Senior Executive
Managing Officer Yoshihiro Hashimoto has said.
The electronics giant is running two projects in Binh Duong,
one at the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park I (VSIP I) and another at the
expanded VSIP II, contributing to the global supply chain, Hashimoto added. Read full story
- A former
high-ranking immigration officer at the Ministry of Public Security has been
arrested for allegedly taking bribes in organising repatriation flights during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tran Van Du, 61, former Deputy Director of the Immigration
Department at the Ministry of Public Security, was among six people arrested on
July 25 as investigations into the repatriation flight scandal was expanded,
said Lt. Gen. To An Xo, Chief of the Office and Spokesman of the Ministry of
Public Security. Read full story
- The
Declaration of the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) has contributed to
promoting peace, trust and cooperation between the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, former Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nguyen Dy Nien told a conference held by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs on July 25.
Organised to mark the 20th anniversary of the DOC, the virtual event brought together incumbent and former Foreign Ministers of ASEAN member states, including those joining the signing of the document in 2002, as well as a number of scholars from both sides./. Read full story