Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries r🧸eported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
-The Party Delegation of the NationalAssembly (NA) led by Secretary of the delegation and NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hueheld a meeting with the Hanoi Party Committee’s Standing Board on March 5 todiscuss the draft revised Capital Law and the plans on local development.
NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue speaks at the meeting between the NA's Party Delegation and the Hanoi Party Committee’s Standing Board on March 5. (Photo: VNA) Chairman Hue said the draft revised Capital Lawhad been submitted to the NA for the first consideration at the 15th-tenureparliament’s sixth session in late 2023. It is scheduled to undergo furtherdiscussion and be voted on at the coming seventh session.
- Foreign Minister Bui Th💮anh S♉on hada meeting with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong on March 5 within theframework of the ASEAN - Australia Special Summit commemorating the 50thanniversary of bilateral relations in Melbourne.
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (left) and Australian counterpart Penny Wong (Photo: VNA) FM Son thanked the Australian official forcollaboration in preparing for Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s official visitto Australia, expressing his belief that the summit will be a great success.
-Minister of Public Security General ToLam hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 5 for Khonsi Naova⛦lat, head ofthe Lao Ministry of Public Security's representative agency in Vietnam.
Minister of Public Security General To Lam (left) receives Khonsi Naovalat, head of the Lao Ministry of Public Security's representative agency in Vietnam on March 5 (Photo: VNA) Minister Lam congratulated NaoValat on beingappointed head of the representative agency, and wished that he wouldfulfil all tasks on his new position.
-Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief ofthe General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Minister of NationalDefence, had bilateral meetings w🍒ith Indonesian Deputy Mini🥃ster of DefenceMuhammad Herindra and Philippine Undersecretary of National Defence Irineo C.Espino in Luang Prabang, Laos, on March 5.
Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong (R), Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Minister of National Defence, meets with Indonesian Deputy Minister of Defence Muhammad Herindra in Luang Prabang on March 5. (Source: VNA) The events took place on the sidelines of theASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) Retreat.
-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs NguyenMinh Hang paid a worki🎃ng visit to Iran from March 3-4, during whichshe co-chaired the eighth political consultation with her Iraniancounterpart Ali Bagheri Kani.
The eighth political consultation at deputy foreign ministerial level between Vietnam and Iran (Source: VNA) At the political consultation, discussions centredon specific measures to boost bilateral ties across politics, diplomacy,economy, trade, culture, education, tourism, people-to-people exchange,including the exchange of all-level delegations, facilitating visa issuance forfirms to increase connectivity, share information and expand businessopportunities.
-As many as 1,000 national flags and thesame number of multifunctional life jackets were presented to disadvantagedfishermen in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on March 5.
The flags and jackets, worth over 1.5 billion VND(60,700 USD) donated by two businesses, were handed over via the Vietnam RedCross Society (VRC) under a programme named “Safety for poor, disadvantagedfishermen”.
-A delegation of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) led by theorganisation's chairman Luong Quoc Doan paid a courtesy visit to Politburomember of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of the LaoFront for National Construction (LFNC) Central Committee SinlavongKhoutphaythoune in Vientiane on March 5.
Atthe meeting, Doan said the delegation’s vi♑sit to Laos aims to exchange information,share experiences in mass mobilisation work, and determine cooperationmechanisms between the association a😼nd the Lao front.
-The total retail sales of goods andconsumer service revenue in February increased by 8.5% over the same periodlast year to 509.7 trillion VND (20.63 billion USD), according to the GeneralStatistics Office (GSO).
The figure contributed to a year-on-year rise of8.1% in total retail sales of goods and revenue from consumer services in thefirst two months of this year to 1.03 quadrillion VND.
-Vietnam exported 35,000 tonnes ofpeppercorn worth 143 million USD in the first two months of 2024, down 12.3% involume but up 12.9% in value, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (MARD).
The US was the biggest importer of Vietnamesepeppercorn, accounting for 29% of the total shipments. It was followed by India8% and Germany 6%.
-A senior official of the northernprovince of Thai Binh highlighted the productive cooperation in healthcare withDenmark while meeting with a visiting delegation of the Danish Ministry of theInterior and Health on March 5.
Providing a brief introduction of Thai Binh, ViceChairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Thi Bich Hang said herprovince has an evenly developed healthcare system with many quality trainingand treatment institutions. Recently, the local health sector has applied manynew and modern techniques to treatment, thus helping improve publichealthcare and protection.
-Vietnam posted 862 cyber attacks inFebruary 2024, a drop of 9.3% from January and 48.9% compared to the sameperiod last year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.
More than 432,400 Internet Protocol (IP) addresseswere found to be in virus-infected computer networks (botnets), an 𒀰incr🅘ease of13% over the same period in 2023./.
