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☀️ Morning digest on June 30

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

☀️ Morning digest on June 30

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

- Party General Secretary and State President To Lam ordered a systemic shift from reactive disaster response to proactive risk management at a June 29 meeting in Hanoi, directing the Government Party Committee and agencies to brace for storms, floods, extreme weather and climate change through late 2026.

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Party General Secretary and State President To Lam speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA)

Disaster prevention must be woven into national development planning, public investment, production, business, investment attraction, social welfare and livelihood protection, he stressed. Read full text

- Prime Minister Le Minh Hung called on Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) to deepen their comprehensive cooperation and work towards achieving bilateral trade of 100 billion USD during a reception on June 29 for outgoing RoK Ambassador to Vietnam Choi Young-sam.

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Prime Minister Le Minh Hung (right) and RoK Ambassador to Vietnam Choi Young-sam at their meeting on June 29. (Photo: VNA)

The PM congratulated Choi on successfully completing his term in Vietnam and highly appreciated the ambassador’s positive contributions to the Vietnam-RoK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which is becoming increasingly profound, effective, and beneficial to the people of both countries. Read full text

- Vietnam always considers Australia a trusted friend and a Comprehensive Strategic Partner with ample potential, which plays an increasingly important role in the region and shares strategic interests with the Southeast Asian nation, said Prime Minister Le Minh Hung.

During a reception in Hanoi on June 29 for Australian Ambassador Gillian Bird, PM Hung praised the diplomat and the Australian Embassy for driving the Vietnam–Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership forward in recent years. Read full text

- Vietnam wants to deepen its Comprehensive Partnership with Canada in a more substantive and effective manner, and elevate ties to a new level, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung told Canadian Ambassador Jim Nickel during a reception in Hanoi on June 29, calling the North American nation an important partner.

PM Hung praised the ambassador and Canadian Embassy for propelling bilateral ties. He extended greetings and thanks to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for a congratulatory letter following his election by Vietnam's National Assembly (NA) to the current post. Read full text

- National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man has called on the NA Party Committee to operate with greater discipline, closer coordination, sharper strategic advice and more decisive action so that the legislature truly serves as the centre for institutionalising the Party’s guidelines, while fulfilling its role as the highest organ of State power and as the representative of the people’s will and aspirations.

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National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man chairs the fifth conference of the NA Party Committee on June 29. (Photo: VNA)

Chairing the fifth conference of the NA Party Committee on June 29, the leader said the committee must continue improving its leadership capacity to meet increasingly demanding tasks in 2026 and throughout the current tenure. Read full text

- Vietnam always considers the Republic of Korea (RoK) one of its most important strategic partners across trade, investment, tourism, culture, national defence-security, and sci-tech, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man told Director of the Kimhakmin E-roun Institute for Economic Research Prof. Kim Hak-min during a reception in Hanoi on June 29.

Chairman Man pointed to the RoK’s four-decade transformation into a developed economy fueled by sci-tech, innovation and digitalisation, saying that he expects the two nations to expand cooperation and further accelerate Vietnam’s own innovation drive. Read full text

- Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang hosted outgoing Ambassador of Malaysia to Vietnam Dato' Tan Yang Thai in Hanoi on June 29.

Congratulating Dato' Tan Yang Thai on successfully completing his mission in Vietnam, Giang commended the diplomat's significant contributions to strengthening the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Malaysia, particularly between the two countries' defence ministries. Read full text

- Vietnamese Government, Ministry of National Defence and Vietnam People's Army always attach importance to strengthening friendship and expanding cooperation with their UAE counterparts, for the legitimate interests of the two peoples as well as for peace, stability, cooperation and development in each country, the region and the world, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Gen. Phan Van Giang has said.

Receiving Undersecretary of the UAE Ministry of Defence Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Nasser Mohammed Al Alawi in Hanoi on June 29, Giang stressed that defence cooperation has played an important role in strengthening mutual trust and promoting the Vietnam–UAE relations./. Read full text

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