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A text message campaign to pool support for the poor and Agent Orange (AO) victims on the Lunar New Year Festival has been launched.

The southern province of Binh Duong has attracted 9.9 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) from 2016 to October 2019, exceeding the locality’s set plan for attracting FDI in the 2016-2020 phase, the Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) reported.

The Da Nang People’s Committee and the Vietnam Software Association (VINASA) will jointly host a series of international events on IT from October 21-24, reported the Vietnam Government Portal (VGP).

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue welcomed cooperation and investment proposals by Japan’s Aichi prefecture while meeting with its Governor Omura Hideaki in Hanoi on September 12.

The National Conference on Sustainable Development will be held in Hanoi on September 12 with three key topics namely, sharing economy, public-private cooperation and human resource development.

The Government has adopted an intellectual property strategy setting goal to further improve Vietnam’s global innovation index (GII), Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) reported.

The Prime Minister will chair a central region economic development conference on August 20 to propose measures for sustainable development in the central region, including the central key economic region, the 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).

India’s solar PV module manufacturer Waaree Energies announced on June 4 that it has officially put into operation a 50MW ground-mounted solar plant in Vietnam.

Vietnam is willing to share its experience with Ivory Coast in many fields, particularly the building of development strategies, e-government, digital economy and hi-tech agriculture, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has said.

The Government Office of Vietnam and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in e-government development in Hanoi on May 30.

Vietnamese security forces are fighting day and night to stop the flow of drugs into the country, said panellists during an online conference host by the Vietnam Government Portal on May 8.

Vietnam continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of detected online infections, according to Kaspersky Security Network data.

Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong received visiting deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Department of the Russian President Alexander Anikin in the city on February 20.

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung on January 28 hosted a reception for Evans F.David, President of the Asia Area of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints (LDS Church or Mormon Church).

Vietnamese citizens are set to enjoy faster, more convenient and more secure border crossings with new biometric passports to be rolled out by 2020.

A ceremony was held at the Embassy of Vietnam in Moscow, Russia on November 13 to present the Friendship Order and Friendship Medal to several staffers at the Federal Protective Service (FSO) of Russia for their contributions to Vietnam’s information security sector.

A delegation from the Government Committee for Religious Affairs led by its head Vu Chien Thang recently visited Russia to share experience in State management over religious affairs with local agencies and organisations.

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 total import-export tax revenue through e-tax payment of the customs sector reached 191.145 trillion VND , accounting for 95 percent of the total revenue to the State budget, from January 1, 2018 to September 5, 2018.