Vietnam remains the sixth leading country of origin for all international higher education students in the US, with 21,631 students studying at American institutions in the academic year 2020-2021, the Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) reported.
The Government’s Resolution No.128/NQ-CP promoting provisional regulations on safe, flexible adaptation to and effective control of COVID-19 is a sound policy at present, said experts at a seminar held by the Government Portal on October 18.
Despite COVID-19, foreign investors’ new capital registered in Vietnam reached 22.15 billion USD in the first nine months, up 4.4 percent compared to the same period last year, as heard at the Government Portal’s online conference held on September 27 with the participation of a number of localities housing foreign direct investment (FDI) projects.
The northern province of Bac Ninh licensed 119 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth 334.8 million USD in the first eight months of 2020, according to the provincial Statistics Office.
More than 400 billion VND (around 17 million USD) have been mobilised for COVID-19 prevention and control work after Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called for public support to the fight against COVID-19.
The Government has adopted an intellectual property strategy setting goal to further improve Vietnam’s global innovation index (GII), Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) reported.
As many as 1,609 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, worth 22.3 billion USD, landed the Mekong Delta in the first half of 2019, reported the Vietnam Government Portal (VGP).
More than 10 million people were yet to be covered by health insurance as of May 2019, it was reported at an online discussion on sustainable development of health insurance held by the Government portal on June 25.
Kon Tum province has been to focus on synchronously launching measures to improve capacity and quality, expand production scale, enhance agricultural restructuring and striving to make the province become the nation’s key pharmaceuticals region.
The HCM City Electricity Corporation encourages households to install rooftop solar panels and now there are 475 of them connected to its grid with a total capacity of nearly 5.3MW.
More than 100 scientists, policy makers, researchers, lecturers and press experts from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) were brought together at a workshop in Hanoi on November 1 to share experience in communicating public policy to promote social consensus in specific arenas such as healthcare and nuclear energy.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministers, leaders of relevant agencies and chairpersons of provincial and municipal people’s committees to speed up replies to comments and petitions they receive from the public.
First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee (HCYUCC) Nguyen Dac Vinh on March 14 held an online dialogue with youths at home and abroad via the Government Portal.
The Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) is posting information on social networks as part of a pilot programme, according to top officials at the Government Office.
The customs sector should build on the positive outcomes in the past two years and further reduce procedure processing time, an official told a workshop in Hanoi on August 11.
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