☀️ Morning digest on July 7

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

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

- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central CommitteeNguyen Phu Trong hosted a reception for Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs SergeyLavrov in Hanoi on July 6, during which host underscored the significance ofthe Russian FM's visit to Vietnam at a time when the two countries arecelebrating the 10th founding anniversary of their comprehensive strategicpartnership. Read full story

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) receives Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov. (Photo: VNA)

- Also on theday, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Russian Minister of ForeignAffairs Sergey Lavrov, during which the PM affirmed that Vietnam has attachedgreat importance to its comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia andwanted to deepen and make the bilateral cooperative ties more effective in allspheres. Read full story

- Russia isalways one of the most important partners in Vietnam's foreign policy, ForeignMinister Bui Thanh Son told his visiting Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrovduring their talks in Hanoi on July 6. Read full story

- PresidentNguyen Xuan Phuc on July 6 urged the Supreme People’s Procuracy tocontinue renovating its operation to meet the requirements of judicial reformand the building and perfection of a rule-of-law socialist state.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (standing) addresses the meeting. (Photo: VNA)

He made therequest while chairing a working session with the Party delegation to theSupreme People’s Procuracy on the drafting of a strategy on building andperfecting the rule-of-law socialist state of Vietnam until 2030 with a visionto 2045. Read full story

- Head of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’sCommission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung hold online talks with LiuJianchao, head of the International Liaison Department of the CommunistParty of China (CPC) Central Committee on July 6. Read full story

- The UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam and the Embassy of Japan (EOJ)jointly launched in Hanoi on July 6 the global strategic partnership betweenUNDP and the Government of Japan to advance responsible business practices inJapanese companies and their supply chains in Vietnam.

The newproject will help strengthen the understanding and capacity of nationalgovernments, Japanese businesses, their suppliers, and partners to implementthe UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Vietnam is oneof the 17 countries prioritised by the Government of Japan for this globalproject to advance responsible business practices in Japanese companies andtheir supply chains in Vietnam. Read full story

- Workers’ average monthly income stood at 6.5 million VND (278 USD) in thefirst half of this year, respectively rising 5.3% and 11% from the same periodof 2021 and 2020, statistics showed.

Inparticular, workers in the processing - manufacturing industry had averageincome of 7.3 million VND, rising by some 476,000 VND year on year, whilesalary earners saw an increase of 417,000 VND in their monthly income to 7.4million VND, Pham Hoai Nam, Director of the Population and Labour StatisticsDepartment under the General Statistics Office, told a press meeting in Hanoion July 6. Read full story

- The number of unemployed people in Vietnam stood at nearly 1.1 million in thefirst half of 2022, down 47,600 year-on-year, said an official from the GeneralStatistics Office (GSO) at a press conference on in Hanoi on July 6.

There werearound 410,300 people aged 15 – 24 without a job during the period, accountingfor 36.8% of the total figure, Pham Hoai Nam, Director of the GSO’s Departmentof Population and Labour, told the press conference held to announce the Q2 andH1 labour market updates. Read full story

- A knowledge contest on Vietnam’s seas and islands and a virtual realityexhibition with the theme of “To quoc ben bo song” (Fatherland by the waves)was launched in Hanoi on July 6.

Le Hai Binh,Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information andEducation and head of the steering committee for the contest, said that thecontest and the exhibition aim to raise public awareness of Vietnam’s seas andislands as well as the role of seas and islands in the cause of nationalconstruction and defence. Read full story./. 
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