- The National Assembly Standing Committee started a Q&A session on financeand foreign affairs on March 18 under the chair of NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue,as part of its ongoing 31st sitting.
The session is broadcast live nationwide on the Vietnam Television and theVietnam NA Television channels.
- Chairman of the People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho TranViet Truong highlighted the potential benefits awaiting Japanese enterprisesinvesting in the city during a working session on March 18 with a delegation ofexecutives of Japanese banks led by Managing Executive Officer of Gunma BankUchibori Takeo.
- Vietnam, one of the world’s leading agricultural exporters, wants to bolstercooperation in the field with the Republic of Korea (RoK) who boasts strengthsin applying advanced technology into cultivation and processing, Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan said on March 18.
At a workshop jointly held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Developmentand the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Hanoi, Hoanhighlighted that both countries hold great potential to cooperate in developingagriculture, elaborating Vietnam has been famous for its rice, vegetables andfruits and aquatic products while the RoK has a modern agriculture with variouskinds of seedlings.
- Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Phan Thi Thang had a meeting withDeputy Assistant US Trade Representative (USTR) for Southeast Asia and thePacific Sarah Elleman, within the framework of Vice State President Vo Thi AnhXuan’s recent working visit to the US.
The two sides assessed the official upgrade of the Vietnam - US relations to acomprehensive strategic partnership on September 10, 2023, as a historicmilestone in bilateral ties, in which economic and trade cooperation willcontinue to be an important driving force, playing a pioneer role in promotingcommon prosperity between the two countries.
- The association of female businesswomen in France - Association EntraideFemmes Entrepreneurs Vietnamiennes en France (AEEV) - on March 17 organised anevent to honour Vietnamese women in France for their contributions to societyin general and to the AEEV’s activities in particular and to celebrateInternational Women's Day (March 8).
The event attracted influential businesswomen in the Vietnamese community inFrance, especially Stéphanie Do - the first female parliamentarian ofVietnamese origin in France and Dr Phan Bich Thien, member of the CentralCommittee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Chairwoman of the Vietnamese Women'sForum in Europe, and Chairwoman of the Vietnamese Women's Association inHungary.
- Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) should better theirmanagement capacity and business strategies so as to draw capital from bothdomestic and foreign investment funds who are holding hundreds of billions ofUSD, economists have said.
The funds are able to provide SMEs with effective financial solutions, theysaid, elaborating instead of investing in financial tools, they are targetingunlisted companies and listed ones who are planning to withdraw their stocksfrom the market to engage in the firms’ management and business growth.
- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will hold aconference in May to announce the export of chicken meat products to Islamicmarkets with an estimated volume of around 1,000 tonnes per month, according toDeputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.
The Deputy Minister said the market of Muslim countries with a total populationof around 2.2 billion people offers opportunities for a number of Vietnam'sagricultural products.
- John Pellower, representing Meyer Sound Laboratories (USA) - the supplier ofsound equipment for Broadway stages and theatres worldwide - shared insightsabout the Ho Guom Opera House during a recent visit to Hanoi.
Pellower said the selection of the Ho Guom Opera House as the onlyrepresentative from Vietnam to be included in the top 10 best opera houses inthe world on the 10 best website of the World Travel Awards organisation – WTAis truly great news not only for the Opera House but also for Hanoi as a whole. Read full story
- In response to the Earth Hour campaign that will take place on the evening ofMarch 23rd, the Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment, and Industryand Trade, and the World Wide Fund for Nature in Vietnam (WWF-Vietnam) havecalled on people to join hands in reducing carbon footprint, towards net zeroemissions. ./.
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