Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported b🎃y the Vietnam News Agency.
-Adelegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) led by NA Vice ChairmanTran Quang Phuong attended the opening ceremony of the 148th Assembly of theInter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-148) and a plenary session in Geneva,Switzerland, on March 24.
NA Vice Chairman Tran Quang Phuong (second from right) attends the 148th IPU Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: VNA) During the IPU-148, themed “Parliamentarydiplomacy: Building bridges for peace and understanding”, the delegates arescheduled to take part in plenary sessions of the assembly and the GoverningCouncil, along with meetings of the Standing Committee on Peace andInternational Security, the Committee on SustainableDevelopment, Finance and Trade, the Committee on Democracy andHuman Rights, and the Committee on United Nations Affairs.
-Vietnamcondemns all acts of terrorism in any form targeting civilians, including theterrorist attack that caused great loss in Russia on March 22 evening, saidVietnam♏ese Ambassador Dang Minh Khoi.
According to latest statisticsreleased by Russian authorities, at least 137 people were killed and 182 othersinjured, many in severe conditions, after armed attackers stormed Crocus CityHall in Moscow and opened fire.
-Experience in social supervision and criticism was shared between the V♊ietnamFatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Chinese People’sPolitical Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Shanghai Committee at their talks in𝔍Ho Chi Minh City on March 25.
At the talks between the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee on March 25. (Photo: VNA) Briefing the Chinese side of the city’seconomic-cultural-social situation in 2023, Vice Chairman of the VFF Committeeof Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Trung said that the city faced formidablechallenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts as well as complicated andunprecedented global and regional political-economic developments.Read full text
-Secretaryof ✅the Party Committee of Ninh Binh province Doan Minh Huan expressed his hopefor stronger multi-faceted cooperation between the northern locality and theRepublic of Korea (RoK) at his reception for Korean Ambassador to Vietnam ChoiYoung-sam on March 25.
At the meeting between Secretary of the Party Committee of Ninh Binh province Doan Minh Huan (R) and Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Choi Young-sam. (Photo: VNA) Briefing the ambassador on Ninh Binh’ssocio-economic situation, potential, strengths and development orientations,with its economy growing 7.27% last year, Huan lauded contributions by Koreanpartners to the province’s achievements.
-AVietnam – Canada business forum was held in Hanoi on March 25, aiming toenhance the bilateral economic relations via the Comprehensive and ProgressiveAgreement for Trans-Pacific P▨artnership (CPTPP).
In his opening remarks,Vice Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs underthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Manh Dong highlighted that OVs and OVbusinesses have unceasingly developed and affirmed their positions in foreigncountries over the past time.
-Visa, a global leader in digital payments, has provided its insights intoVietnam’s payment lands๊cape 🅠with its latest Consumer Payment Attitudes studythat highlights the surge in cashless transactions among Vietnamese consumers.
Accordingto the study, 56% of Vietnamese respondents surveyed are now carrying lessphysical cash than they did a year ago, signaling a progressive mindset towardsembracing new financial technologies. Particularly, young consumers are playinga pioneering role in the shift towards cashless payment, with 89% of thesurveyed having successfully adopted cashless methods.
-The southern pro🐈vince of Tra Vinh has approved an investment worth 576 billionVND (23.26 million USD) to develop𒐪 a petroleum storage terminal project by theTra Vinh Petrochemical and Energy Joint Stock Company.
The project isdeveloped on an area of more than 46ha in Kim Son commune, Tra Cu district. Itwill build a petroleum storage with a capacity 50,000cu.m and a terminal whichis capable of receiving 20,000 tonne vessels.
-TheAgency of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the ASEANSecretariat on March 25 opened a joint session of ASEAN and Korean experts onthe transposition of ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Agreement (AKFTA) product specificrules from haཧrmonise✱d system codes HS 2017 into HS 2022.
An overview of the joint session. (Photo: VNA) 
