Vietnam Today

(CPV) – On January 18, the working delegation of the Party Central Committee (PCC) Secretariat led by Nguyen Trong Nghia, Secretary of the PCC and Head of the PCC Commission on Popularization and Education, visited and gave presents to workers of the Long Giang Industrial Park, poor households, and disadvantaged families with people infected with COVID-19 in Tien Giang Province.

The AFP news agency has posted a video about the production of incense in the traditional incense village in Ung Hoa District, Hanoi, as the Lunar New Year approaches.

On January 18, Pakistani Ambassador to Vietnam Samina Mehtab and a delegation of the Pakistani Embassy laid flowers and paid homage to President Ho Chi Minh in his mausoleum, starting activities to mark the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations between Vietnam and Pakistan (November 8).

Vietnam enjoyed an increased market share of processed fruit and vegetables (coded HS 20) in China’s total import value in the Jan-Nov period of 2021.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will conduct agricultural restructuring in tandem with growth model reform and new-style rural area building under an action plan in 2022 recently approved.

In 2022, Hanoi is expected to welcome and serve 9-10 million visitors, including 1.2-2 million international visitors. Total revenue from tourists is forecast to hit 28- 36 trillion VND.

On January 18, the delegation of the Embassy of Israel in Vietnam led Ambassador Nadav Eshcar and and Miss Universe Vietnam 2017 H'Hen Nie coordinated with the northern mountainous Ha Giang provincial People's Committee to open friendly library for ethnic students in the locality.

Vietnam is an important partner of the UK, especially in the post-Brexit context, Speaker of the House of Commons of the UK Lindsay Hoyle told a Vietnamese diplomat.

Analysis data from Google Destination Insights shows the number of international searches on Vietnam’s tourism is on the rise.

The Government Office has just announced the conclusion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the meeting of permanent Government members in Hanoi on January 18 on considering reopening schools.

An exchange with international scientists, who are members of the VinFuture Prize Council and Pre-Screening Committee, was held in Hanoi on January 18, as part of the VinFuture Award Week.

Among the five centrally-run cities, the northern port city of Hai Phong took the lead in the gross regional domestic product growth in 2021, registering a rise of 12.38 percent.

Hai Phong, the biggest port city of Northern Vietnam, aims to welcome and serve 4.53 million tourists in 2022, earning revenue of 3.7 trillion VND.

Nissan’s press release on January 17 said that the company’s plant in St. Petersburg, Russia has produced 45,040 cars in 2021.

The second week of the online contest studying Uncle Ho with Thanh Hoa Province and Thanh Hoa Province obeying Uncle Ho’s teachings, which ended on January 17, attracted 125,024 participants with 326,500 entries.

The UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) has brought about positive results though it took effect recently, said head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s Multilateral Trade Policy Department Luong Hoang Thai at a seminar held in Hanoi on January 18.

The relations between the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and political parties in Germany have contributed to creating a foundation for the relationship between the two countries, said a Vietnamese high-ranking Party official.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has expressed his belief that the public and business community will actively support the building of national database on population and management of citizen ID cards, contributing to promoting national digital transformation and socio-economic management in the next period.

Sixty-seven journalism works in Party building will be honoured at the Bua Liem Vang (Golden Hammer and Sickle) Award, to be held in Hanoi this week, heard at a meeting on January 18.

An Giang should bring into full play its advantages in high-tech agriculture and tourism to move ahead, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc told incumbent and former leaders of the Mekong Delta province on January 18 as part of his working trip to the locality on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

An event was organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Tiger on January 16 with the participation of Vietnamese diplomats, businesses, expatriates and students in the country.

Despite pandemic-caused difficulties, Vietnam still posted a trade surplus of 4 billion USD, an impressive achievement partly attributed to free trade agreements (FTAs), especially the new-generation ones.

Fast digital transformation is considered the best way for Vietnamese agricultural sector to overcome difficulties to recover and develop in the post-pandemic period, thus affirming its role as a key pillar of the economy, according to experts.

Authorized by Head of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party External Relations and Lao Ambassador to Vietnam, Lao Deputy Ambassador Chanthaphone Khammanichanh presented 3 second-class Labour Orders and 10 third-class Labour Orders to leaders, managers and cadres of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy (HCMA) of Politics and the Su That National Political Publishing House.

Ambassador of Israel to Vietnam Nadav Ashca spoke highly of Vietnam’s successful response to COVID-19 during a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency, saying he is impressed to see the significant growth in the trade volume between the two countries over the last two years despite the COVID-19 challenges.

The Republic of Korea Embassy in Vietnam and the Vietnamese Embassy in the RoK on January 17 worked together to announce a design as the logo marking the 30th anniversary of Vietnam-RoK diplomatic relations.

The first online medical station for COVID-19 patients has been launched at Truc Bach ward in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district, Hanoi.

On January 17, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in HCM City, the HCM municipal Board for Ethnic Minority Affairs and the People’s Public Security Newspaper organized a ceremony to present scholarships to 55 ethnic students in the city.

The national flag carrier has resumed regular flights to eight countries and territories after a long hiatus due to COVID-19.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has affirmed that Vietnam had a successful tenure as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for 2020-2021, a difficult period for the world and the UNSC in particular due to complicated, uncertain and unprecedented developments in the world.