Day: June 27, 2021

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of southern Long An province has proposed building a freshwater reservoir project in Thanh Hoa district to ensure water supply in the dry season.

The department, which has completed zoning and procedures for the project, said it would cost more than 718 billion VND (31 million USD). The reservoir will store fresh water in the rainy season.

Long An has been severely affected by saltwater intrusion and drought in recent years.

The reservoir project and existing irrigation works will secure irrigation water for 1,500ha of hi-tech farming areas, as well as water for households, industrial production, and fire prevention for 3,300ha of protective forests in border areas.

Nguyen Thanh Truyen, Director of the department, said that in 2016 the Prime Minister asked the province to submit its reservoir plan for consideration.

The province’s budget for public works for the 2021 – 25 period cannot cover all construction costs for the project, so the department asked the provincial People’s Committee to petition the Government to allocate funds to build the reservoir.

The project will cover 140ha and have two lakes with a combined area of 106ha, and a 4.8 km dam.

The project includes four water regulating sluices with pumping systems, a water transport canal system, a management building, and new trees. It will also have a water plant and an ecotourism resort.

In the 2019- 20 dry season, saltwater intrusion and drought damaged more than 2,700ha of rice and caused a shortage of water to 3,500 households.

In addition, the low level of floodwaters in the delta caused by the rising water level of the Mekong River during the rainy season in recent years has caused freshwater shortages.

In 2016 the province decided to set up four different areas for freshwater reservoirs in the Dong Thap Muoi (Plain of Reeds) region, including the one in Thanh Hoa district’s Thuan Binh commune. The other three reservoirs will be located in Tan Hung and Vinh Hung districts and Kien Tuong town.

Of the four projects, the freshwater reservoir project in Thanh Hoa district’s Thuan Binh commune will be given priority./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy and Vietnamese Association in the Czech Republic have visited and comforted Vietnamese households affected by a strong tornado and hailstorm in South Moravia.

During the visit on June 25, the delegation launched a fund-raising campaign to aid the affected people. More than 200,000 CZK (over 9,300 USD) were raised by Vietnamese in the Czech Republic within a day along with essential goods and foods.

Tran Ngoc Dung, Vice President of the Vietnamese Association in Brno and South Moravia said right after the tornado and hailstorm ended, he visited the affected families.

The tornado and hailstorm, considered the strongest over the past century, on June 24 (local time) swept through several villages in South Moravia where many Vietnamese families are living.

As of June 25 night, the natural disasters killed five and injured hundred others, according to local authorities.

The association said nearly 30 Vietnamese families in the villages were hit hard by the natural disasters, with six suffering serious property losses./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Ho Chi Minh City is building more than 10 hectares of public parks and two hectares of public green spaces by the end of the year.

According to the city’s park and green spaces’ plan, seven new parks will be built in districts and Thu Duc city by the end of this year.

The city is also planting or rehabilitating about 6,000 trees, and growing two hectares worth of greenery on empty land plots around the city.

According to the city’s Department of Construction, the city aims to improve local quality of life and the environment, as well as increase the amount of land for greenery.

The department will focus on planting trees, building parks and renovating deteriorated green spaces in housing projects until 2025.

The city also plans to build a minimum of 150 hectares of parks and around the city by 2025.

Thu Duc city and districts are working with investors on green space investment plans, and searching and evaluating appropriate land plots for the plans.

The city currently has more than 500 hectares of parks.

Many residents who live outside the city centre – especially Binh Tan district, the most populated district – have complained about the lack of public parks for outdoor activities./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 27 led a Government delegation to inspect the COVID-19 prevention and control and treatment for COVID-19 patients in southern Binh Duong province that houses numerous industrial parks.

Binh Duong should actively roll out the present COVID-19 prevention and control measures, he said, suggesting the province impose social distancing and maintain on-the-spot production and business at the same time.

Reiterating the dual goals of pandemic containment and socio-economic development, Chinh asked the province to take suitable quarantine measures and pilot home quarantine for F1 cases.

Although the changes are important, they must be carried out in line with regulations, the leader said. Earlier the same day, Chinh and the Government delegation inspected COVID-19 prevention and control, and treatment at the Binh Duong General Hospital in Hiep Thanh ward, Thu Dau Mot city.

Local medical facilities are providing treatment for 228 COVID-19 patients, including 226 cases found in the community, one relapse case from the central province of Khanh Hoa, and one imported case.

He also visited a factory of Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk) at the My Phuoc 2 Industrial Park in Ben Cat town, where he lauded the company for its pandemic response and efforts in maintaining production./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Vietnam reported 50 new local infections of COVID-19 in the past 12 hours to 6am on June 27, according to the Ministry of Health.

Among the newly-detected cases, 40 were in Ho Chi Minh City, seven in Long An, and three in Bac Giang. Forty-thee were recorded in quarantine sites or sealed off areas.

The new cases brought the national tally to 15,325, with 1,760 imported and 13,565 locally transmitted ones.

The ministry said 6,137 patients have been given the all-clear so far. The death toll was 74.

Among the patients being under treatment, 370 have tested negative once for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the disease, 125 twice, and 152 thrice.

As of 4pm on June 26, nearly 3.3 million vaccine doses had been injected. The number of people getting two shots was 155,488.

Fourteen localities have gone 14 days without new infections and 12 localities have recorded no new secondary infections./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The official visit to Vietnam by General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, from June 28-29, is a significant event in the great friendship and special solidarity between the two countries.

This is the first overseas trip by Thongloun Sisoulith in his capacity as Lao Party General Secretary and President for the 2021-2026 tenure. This is also the first high-ranking Party and State delegation of Laos to visit Vietnam after the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

It contributes to affirming the two countries’ foreign policies of attaching great importance to preserving and continuously developing the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation, and deepening the close and trusting relations between leaders of the two Parties and countries in the time ahead.

Over the past more than eight decades, the traditional relationship and close-knit, faithful ties between Vietnamese and Lao peoples, founded by Vietnam’s President Ho Chi Minh and Presidents Kaysone Phomvihane and Suphanouvong of Laos, and promoted by generations of the two countries’ leaders and peoples, have become an invaluable asset shared by the two nations.

The two countries signed the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation on July 18, 1977, creating a firm legal foundation for the enhancement and expansion of the special ties in the new period, and a foundation for the two sides to reach a range of cooperation agreements later.

Vietnam and Laos have also provided mutual support in their reform process, and both have reaped significant achievements in economy, and social and foreign affairs. Notably, the bilateral political ties have developed more intensively, extensively and firmly.

Despite the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and early 2021, the two countries maintained a number of high-level meetings in suitable forms.

Cooperation in national defence and security has also been enhanced and proven more fruitful.

Vietnam is one of the three biggest investors in Laos. Two-way trade in the first five months of this year when the COVID-19 was still ravaging exceeded 570 million USD, up 25 percent year-on-year.

The two countries have continued to prioritise cooperation in education and training. Vietnam grants up to 1,220 scholarships to Lao students this year.

Thongloun Sisoulith’s selection of Vietnam for his first overseas trip after he was elected as the top Party and State leader of Laos will help consolidate and deepen the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation, bringing pragmatic interests to peoples of both sides./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and State President Thongloun Sisoulith’s selection of Vietnam for his first overseas trip after taking office demonstrates the importance that Laos attaches to the great friendship, special solidary and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries.

The statement was made by Lao Deputy Prime Minister Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

Thongloun Sisoulith, his wife and a high-ranking delegation of the Lao Party and State will pay an official visit to Vietnam from June 28-29, at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and their spouses.

This is the first overseas trip by Thongloun Sisoulith in his capacity as Lao Party General Secretary and President for the 2021-2026 tenure.

During his visit, Thongloun Sisoulith will meet with Vietnamese high-ranking leaders, and hold a dialogue at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) to reaffirm the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation, according to the Lao Deputy PM.

Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune, who is also head of the National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, highlighted the mutual support of Vietnam and Laos in the pandemic combat.

Since the pandemic broke out, Vietnamese and Lao leaders have exchanged information and shown the closest and most timely cooperation in this regard, he added.

The Deputy PM appreciated Vietnam’s medical supplies and dispatch of health experts, who stood side by side with their Lao colleagues in the fight, saying Vietnam’s selfless support was in the spirit of fraternity.

Vietnam was also the first country to launch a special flight carrying medical supplies and experts to Laos when the second wave of the pandemic hit the country, he continued.

Apart from the mutual support of the two States, Vietnamese and Lao ministries, agencies, all-level authorities and localities have also assisted each other in COVID-19 prevention and control, he added.

Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune thanked the timely, valuable and effective assistance of the Vietnamese Party, State and people to Laos, pledging that Laos will make the best use of Vietnam’s financial aid and medical supplies./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has extended congratulations to the Central Committee of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) on the 70th anniversary of the CPP (June 28).

In the message, the CPV and Vietnamese people congratulated the CPP and Cambodians on major achievements they recorded across spheres in the past time.

“We believe that with the tradition and achievements, the CPP will continue to lead the country to reap new, greater attainments in implementing the Party’s Platform for the 2018-2023 period and the Rectangular Strategy – Phase 4 of the Cambodian Government, soon contain the COVID-19 pandemic, ensure socio-economic development, and successfully build a Cambodia of peace, independence, democracy and social progress,” the message read.

“We are very pleased at and proud of the fine neighbourliness, traditional friendship, and comprehensive, sustainable and long-term cooperation with Cambodia, which is thriving.”

The Vietnamese Party, State and people will make every effort to work, together with their Cambodian counterparts, to preserve and cultivate the bilateral relations, for the sake of the two countries’ peoples, and for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world, the message wrote.

The Vietnamese Party, State and people also thanked the CPP, State and people of Cambodia for their valuable support during Vietnam’s past struggle for the liberation of South Vietnam and national reunification, as well as the present cause of reform, national construction and defence.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also sent flowers to the CPP President and Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen, and CPP Honorary President and National Assembly President Heng Samrin.

Le Hoai Trung, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations also extended congratulations to Prak Sokhonn, Chairman of the CPP Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency