- President Vo Van Thuong on February 22 visited the Children’s Hospital 1 inHo Chi Minh City on the occasion of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27).
The State leader lauded achievementsrecorded by the hospital, which is striving to be listed in the top fivechildren’s hospitals in Southeast Asia.
- The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee convened its 30th meeting inHanoi on February 22, with its agenda focusing on five major contents.
NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said the committee will discuss adjustments to thedraft Law on Archives (revised), which is scheduled to be submitted to the NA’s7th session in May.
- Vietnam emphasised the need for ensuring security and safety for the forcesand bases of peacekeeping missions and enhancing women’s role in peacekeepingoperations, at a recent plenum of the UN Special Committee on PeacekeepingOperations (C34).
Minister Counsellor Nguyen Hoang Nguyen, Deputy Permanent Representative ofVietnam to the UN, stressed the requirement, especially amid risks of increasedhostilities and intentional attacks on UN personnel.
- The Office of the Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authorityand Enquiry Point (SPS Vietnam) on February 22 signed a memorandum ofunderstanding (MoU) with the Tentamus Innovation Hub of Germany’s TentamusGroup, under which the two sides will cooperate in providing technicalexpertise on food safety control for Vietnamese exporters.
Accordingly, the two sides will support and coordinate with each other toeffectively notify contents related to hygiene, epidemiology and plant andanimal quarantine to Vietnamese manufacturers and exporters, while answeringtheir questions in order to support Vietnamese products to meet technicalstandards and enable them to enter markets that require high technicalstandards.
- The northern province of Quang Ninh attracted eight foreign direct investment(FDI) projects with registered capital totaling 478 million USD in January.
Notably, the Gokin Solar of Hong Kong (China) project's photovoltaic celltechnology complex has the highest capital investment, amounting to 274.8million USD.
- VinFast, Vietnam’s first electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, on February 22announced that it has just signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) withthree Indonesian business clients to provide 600 EVs for their corporate fleets.
The MoU, which was signed at the Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS)2024, where VinFast had earlier introduced a complete line-up of right-handdrive electric vehicles, opens up an avenue for the Vietnamese EV maker to tapinto the strong potential of the local market, and promote the greentransportation development in the region.
- Vietjet Air has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Airbus forthe purchase of 20 A330-900 wide-bodies, the leading aircraft manufacturer of Europeannounced on February 22.
When finalised, this will be Vietjet’s first-ever wide-body order. The aircraftwill be operated on the carrier’s growing long range network, as well as onhigh capacity regional services. They will replace the carrier’s current fleetof leased A330-300s, as well as provide for network expansion.
- The Ministry of Education and Training has announced the admission of 1,000students to study in Russia in 2024 under a scholarship agreement signedbetween the two countries.
Accordingly, the Russian government has granted 1,000 scholarships toVietnamese citizens to pursue study in various fields at universities andresearch institutes, including undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees,as well as specialised internships and Russian language courses. ./.
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