Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide said on October 20 that his country will provide 50 billion JPY (473 million USD) in low-interest loans to Indonesia to support its fight against COVID-19.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for ICTs have co-organised the ITU Virtual Digital World 2020.
The foreign ministers of Kuwait and Maldives on October 20 sent their sympathies over the heavy losses caused by serious flooding and landslides in central Vietnam.
The death toll during the recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains in the central region reached 106 as of 5 pm on October 20, while 27 others were missing, reported the Office of the Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
Vietnam will create optimal conditions for Samsung Electronics to invest in high technology projects, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on October 20
The southern province of Dong Nai handed over land for the first phase of the Long Thanh international airport project to the Ministry of Transport at a ceremony held on October 20.
The ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) has sent aid to the two Vietnamese provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Tri hit by flooding that has caused loss of life and property.
A campaign called “Career has no gender” has been launched to promote gender equality in workplaces nationwide, Le Thanh Hang, Director of the Vietnam Business Coalition for Women’s Empowerment (VBCWE), said on October 20.
The National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Control has alerted coastal localities and relevant ministries and agencies about a new storm which is moving towards the East Sea, especially when the central region is still struggling with large-scale flooding.
A new imported case of COVID-19 was detected during the past 12 hours, taking the national tally to 1,141 as of 6pm on October 20, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Swedish food processing and packaging solutions provider Tetra Pak has cooperated with MM Mega Market Vietnam to launch public drop-off stations for collecting used beverage cartons at seven MM Mega Market centres in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in 2020.
The third Congress of the Party Organisation of the Central Enterprises Bloc (CEB) opened in Hanoi on October 20 with the participation of nearly 293 delegates.
Japanese media has made extensive coverage of the visit by Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide to Vietnam from October 18-19 at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
The development and activation of a geographic origin and timber species risk category plays an important role in controlling the legality of imported timber, heard at a recent seminar in Hanoi.
Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his Peruvian counterpart Manuel Talavera Espinar convened the fourth deputy foreign ministerial-level political consultation on October 19, via video conference.
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