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The Vietnamese Government and the World Bank have signed an agreement for financing of 221.5 million USD to support Vietnam’s post-pandemic recovery through policy reforms aimed at improving financial inclusion and spurring greater environmental resilience.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and National Assembly (NA) deputies of Ho Chi Minh City joined a working session with the municipal People’s Committee and relevant agencies on December 27 regarding the implementation of policies and regulations on planning in the city since the Planning Law takes effect.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked each revolutionary public security officer to place national and public interests above others in any circumstance, deserving the solid “steel shield” of the Party, State and people.

This is the fourth year that the Vietnam - Czech Shelter Charity visited and presented gifts to Czech elderly and children in difficult circumstances on the occasion of Christmas.

Digital transformation can be regarded as a necessary "vaccine" that needs to be increasingly used in order to aid the economic recovery process in the near future to allow it to be faster and more sustainable than expected.

The Vietnam-Japan Family Association in Japan’s Kyushu-Okinawa region has been established, gathering families whose wives or husbands are Japanese.

Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son suggested that provinces and cities complete the third dose of COVID-19 vaccinations for people aged 18 or more by the first quarter of 2022.

Localities have been asked to organize mobile vaccinations at home, ensuring that no one in the high-risk group is unvaccinated, especially those who cannot move.

(CPV) - On December 26, in the northern province of Hai Duong, the Editorial Board of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Online Newspaper and Hai Duong Provincial Party Committee held a conference to sign a communications cooperation program for the period 2022-2025.

Vietnam recorded around 11,500 traffic accidents nationwide in 2021, causing nearly 5,800 deaths and more than 8,000 people injured.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 25 had a working session with leading officials of the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang.

The Vietnamese tourism sector aims to welcome five million international visitors and 60 million domestic tourists in 2022 to earn approximately VND400 trillion in revenue.

Participants in a tourism conference, held on December 25 in the presence of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, recommended several measures to help revitalise the tourism industry which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In order to strengthen immunity against COVID-19, the Ministry of Health continues to request localities to speed up the progress of vaccinations, to achieve full coverage for the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 and implement booster injection for people as prescribed.

Vietnam logged 15,586 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours till 4pm on December 25, including 27 imported cases, reported the Health Ministry.

A seminar on the role of crisis settlement in economic diplomacy in the Middle East-Africa took place in Hanoi on December 24.

Rice production is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture, and how to reduce the emissions while still ensuring food security and raising farmers’ income in the Mekong Delta is now a hard nut to crack to many.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien has asked the Directorate of Fisheries to pool all possible resources and take synchronous measures to soon remove “yellow card” warning on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Vietnam's target of bringing its GDP growth to 6-6.5 percent in 2022 as set in the recent session of the National Assembly is entirely possible if it can effectively control the COVID-19, and improve the supply – demand balance, an official of the World Bank (WB) has said.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan are eyeing bigger shares of Vietnam’s agricultural product and food market, given that the festive season is approaching with growing customer demand.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official visit to Cambodia on December 21 – 22 demonstrated the good relationship between the two countries and further stepped up bilateral cooperation, said Uch Leang, Acting Director of the Department of Asian, African and Middle East Studies of the International Relations Institute of Cambodia.

Vietnam’s textile-garment export revenue is expected to reach 39 billion USD in 2021.

People staying in Vietnam less than 14 days for work purposes are not required to undergo quarantine, but need to fully adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures, according to a guideline by the Ministry of Health on December 24.

Vietnam is looking to increase the average housing floor area per person to 27 sq.m by 2025, in which the floor area per person will be 28 sq.m in urban areas, and 26 sq.m in rural areas.

Despite COVID-19 impacts, Vietnam has seen an impressive reversal in import-export activities in the last months of the year, securing trade surplus for the sixth consecutive year.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission convened its 10th meeting in Hanoi on December 22-24.

The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Trading Cooperatives (Saigon Co.op) has cooperated with Saigon Liberation Newspaper to launch a campaign for green consumption in 2021.

Two-way trade turnover between Vietnam and Russia totalled 4.97 billion USD in the Jan- Nov period of 2021, a year-on-year increase of 12.07%; accounting for 0.83% of the country’s total export turnover, according to statistics of the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Vietnam Airlines on December 23 announced it is planning to resume regular international flights linking Vietnam with 15 countries and territories in the first half of 2022.

“FAVIJA Kanto Cup 2021", a football cup for the Vietnamese community in Japan, has taken place successfully.