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Consul General Nguyen Dang Hung on November 24 led a delegation of the Consulate General of Vietnam in Luang Prabang to congratulate the Party Committee, Government and people of Luang Prabang province on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the National Day of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (December 2nd, 1975 - December 2nd, 2021).

The Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese (ALOV) recently had a working session with the Department of Continuing Education under Ministry of Education and Training on issues related to the compilation contest of books and materials for teaching and learning Vietnamese for overseas Vietnamese.

The AEON 1% Club Foundation, a member of Japanese retail and financial services corporation AEON, granted 60 scholarships to Vietnamese university students at an online ceremony on November 24.

On November 24, a batch of 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Argentinean Government arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.

Belgium is one of Vietnam’s leading export markets in Europe, and has achieved a high growth rate over the past 10 months. In particular, export of iron and steel products to the market enjoyed robust growth.

A Singaporean enterprise has just signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to invest in a Data Center area worth about 100 million USD in the Da Nang IT park.

An online conference to promote Thai investment in the southern province of Binh Duong has been held with the participation of more than 100 investors.

The France - Vietnam Friendship Association (AAFV) on November 19 and 20 held its 17th Congress in Montreuil city, a suburb of Paris.

Vietnam and Japan on November 24 issued a joint statement toward the opening of a new era in the bilateral extensive strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia on the occasion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s official visit to Japan from November 22-25.

Quang Ninh Province will spend at least VND4 trillion implementing the master program on supporting 160,000 people in ethnic minority, mountainous, border and island areas for sustainable socio-economic development, ensuring national security.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on November 24 underlined the need to continue building, preserving and developing an advanced culture deeply imbued with national identity, making it a spiritual foundation and a growth motivation lighting the people's path ahead.

Doctors from the Central Military Hospital 108 have successfully operated an endoscopic surgery to take the right liver part from a living donor for a liver transplantation.

Consul General of Vietnam in Guangzhou Vu Viet Anh recently attended the 14th Dialogue between Consulates General of ASEAN countries in Guangzhou and Hainan’s Haikou City, China.

(CPV) - ADM Animal Nutrition Vietnam (ADM) and Aid for social protection program Foundation Vietnam (AFV) have collaborated to hold the project “Clean water for poor communities in Ben Tre” to support poor farm households overcome the negative impacts from droughts and saltwater intrusion in Mo Cay Nam District, Ben Tre Province.

A webinar on promoting young Vietnamese intellectuals in the process of national digital transformation was recently held in Russia.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach recently had a meeting with Mr. Garyaga Oleg Alexandrovich, Chief of Kiev’s Shevchenko District at the Embassy’s headquarters.

(CPV) - Since coming to Vietnam to assume her responsibilities, Mexican Ambassador Sarah Valdez Bolano has constantly made efforts to maintain and promote the cooperation relationship between Vietnam and Mexico in many fields, from politics-diplomacy to foreign policy, trade, economy, education, culture, local cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.

(CPV) - The Ministry of Finance and the Military Industry-Telecoms Group (Viettel Group) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in digital transformation in the 2021-2025 period.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade on November 22 coordinated the City Export Processing Zone and Industrial Park Authority (HEPZA) to launch a program for mobile price-stabilized goods at the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in District 7.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has signed Decision No.1909/QD-TTg approving a cultural development strategy until 2030.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (RoK) Nguyen Vu Tung presented President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s Friendship Order to Mr. Kim Sang Yeol, former Honorary Consul General of Vietnam in the Gwangju-Jeonnam region for his many active and effective contributions to promoting economic, cultural and educational exchanges, and strengthening the strategic cooperative partnership between the two cou

Up to now, Vietnam is considered as one of the most active members of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), proposing 29 initiatives and co-sponsoring 31 initiatives in areas practical for localities, businesses and people.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 23 paid a working visit to Tochigi prefecture, where he received its Governor Fukuda Tomikazu, and attended a conference on cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese localities as part of his official visit to Japan.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with former Japanese PM Suga Yoshihide and Chairman of the Japan - Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance Nikai Toshihiro in Tokyo on November 23.

Vietnam wants to foster cooperation between its localities and Belgium’s Antwerp province in potential fields such as seaports, renewable energy, climate change adaptation and education, Ambassador to Belgium Nguyen Van Thao said during his working sessions with leaders of the Belgian province and the Port of Antwerp on November 22.

An event was recently held by the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association in the Russian Federation’s Primorye province to celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Children's Palace in Vladivostok city.

The 2nd Vietnam Summit in Japan was organized on November 20-21 with the participation of nearly 1,000 Vietnamese people studying and working in Japan, together with Vietnamese intellectual associations in many parts of the world.

On November 22, major Japanese media outlets such as Mainichi, Nikkei and Jiji published articles about Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's official visit to Japan from November 22-25.

Ho Chi Minh City has spent more than VND12 trillion supporting more than 8.8 million people facing difficult circumstances because of the COVID-19 pandemic, including over 8.7 million people and over 100,000 businesses.

On November 22, 2021, the delegation of the Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) visited the memorial area at Quan La communal house (Xuan La ward, Tay Ho district, Hanoi).