The Peace Trees Vietnam’s mobile bomb and mine clearance team announced on January 7 that they had successfully moved a 227kg MK-82 bomb to a safe area to wait for deactivation.
The bomb was found by a man in Ta Rung village, Huong Viet commune, Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri.
Located in a depth of 2m, the bomb has a diameter of 274mm, a length of 1.54m and weighs 227kg.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
The Hanoi municipal Department of Industry and Trade presented the title of Hanoi artisans and outstanding rural industrial products 2021 during a ceremony in the capital city on January 7.
Among 71 products joining in the selection, 61 were recognised as outstanding rural industrial products.
Speaking at the event, acting Director of the department Tran Thi Phuong Lan said in order support artisans and craft villages, Hanoi will continue effectively carrying out the national and Hanoi industrial encouragement programmes, thus creating a new driving force for the sustainable development of industrial and rural handicraft production.
The city will also make it easier for rural industrial establishments to access digital economic development opportunities, improve their competitiveness and effectively join in global economic integration.
Owners of rural industrial establishments will also be assisted in building technical demonstration models, technological transfer and use of advanced technologies in production, she said.
On the occasion, Hanoi presented the insignia “For the cause of Vietnam’s industry and trade development” to 57 outstanding individuals in recognition of their contributions to the sector.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a decision approving a project on developing the application of population database, e-identification and e-authentication for national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision to 2030.
Under the scheme, national population database, e-identification and e-authentication system as well as citizen ID cards with electronic chips will be used flexibly and creatively to serve administrative procedures and online public services supply, socio-economic expansion, digital citizens development, the completion of the ecosystem on connecting, exploiting and enriching population data, and the directions by leaders at all levels.
In 2022, the old and new versions of citizen IDs will be integrated, enabling the e-identification of all citizens.
The connection and sharing of data between the national population and tax databases are expected to complete in the first quarter of 2022, while personal paper documents, including health insurance card, driving licence, job licence, and vaccination certificate, will be generally integrated into the citizen IDs and the e-identification app VNEID. In 2022, e-authentication will be used for all information provided on the citizen IDs and VNEID.
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Citizen ID with electronic chips is used for QR scanning in Hanoi’s urban railway system (Photo: VNA)
In the 2023-2025 period, e-identification and e-authentication are expected to be applied on all people conducting administrative procedures at one-stop-shop office at all levels.
Meanwhile, in 2022-2023, the e-identification and e-authentication system will be upgraded, completed and applied in e-transactions serving socio-economic development.
Major measures to implement the scheme include completing relevant legal regulations. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam was assigned to direct the project implementation and settle all relevant matters.
A working group on the project implementation will be formed with Minister of Public Security being the head. It aims to guide ministries, sectors and localities on realising tasks of the project, making periodic reports to Deputy PM Dam on the results.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
The Border Guard Command of the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong on January 7 presented food and medical supplies to armed forces of Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province to serve the COVID-19 combat.
The donations, worth 170 million VND (7,490 USD), are expected to help the Cambodian armed forces better perform their tasks of border management and pandemic fight, said Colonel Nguyen Van Lu, head of the Border Guard Command.
A representative from the Cambodian armed forces expressed his belief that the two countries’ border guards will continue their coordination in border management and pandemic prevention and control.
On this occasion, the two sides exchanged information about territorial sovereignty, activities of hostile forces and crime at border areas.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
Credit institutions warn of a continuous increase in credit risks in the first half of 2022, according to a survey on credit trends by the State Bank of Vietnam’s Forecast and Statistics Department.
The survey was conducted from December 3-15, 2021 on all credit institutions and foreign bank branches in Vietnam, with the response rate being 94 percent.
According to them, the increase rate of credit risks in the first half of this year will be lower than that in the last six months of the previous year. The figure in the whole year 2022 is forecast to decrease slightly against 2021.
Commenting on the credit growth momentum in 2022, credit institutions said that wholesale and retail, export and import, loans for living needs, and construction continue to be the main drivers for credit growth in the last six months of 2021 and 2022.
Meanwhile, the field with the highest growth rate chosen by most of credit institutions switches from wholesale and retail in 2020 and 2021 to export and import in 2022.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
The south-central coastal region, the most disaster-prone in Vietnam, must focus on improving disaster forecasting so early warnings can be produced to facilitate proactive response, an official told the Vietnam News Agency.
Last November, the region was severely hit by torrential rains and flooding, leaving dozens of people dead and missing.
The National Strategy on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control for the 2021 – 2030 period, with a vision towards 2045, highlights tasks and solutions to help the region prevent and mitigate impacts of natural disasters, particularly storm, flood, drought, landslide, and coastal and river erosion, said Tang Quoc Chinh, Director of the Department of Disaster Safety Control under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Vietnam Disaster Management Authority. Focus must be placed on improving disaster forecasting to produce early warnings and proactive response, he said.
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Rescuers use a boat to move children to safety in Vietnam. Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA)
The region needs to develop a multi-disaster warning system to monitor rainfall, flood, landslide and others, while providing guidelines for building disaster-resilient structures and evacuation shelters and financially supporting disadvantaged households to construct storm- and flood-resistant houses, he noted.
It must enhance the effectiveness of risk zoning, establish a communal-level disaster warning map and tighten control on construction of housing and infrastructure, particularly coastal and riverside tourist sites, he suggested, adding more attention should be paid to forest management, protection and development, preservation of coastal sand dunes and shift to disaster-resilient farming.
In the long run, the region should harmonise disaster response efforts among state management agencies and advisory bodies and build capacity for governmental staff specialised in natural disaster prevention and control, while applying advanced technology and developing database in this matter, the official added.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
China has announced the reopening of Pingmeng border gate with Vietnam’s Soc Giang border gate in Cao Bang province from 10:00 on January 7.
The border gate was reopened just one day after the first meeting of the Working Group on Vietnam-China Trade Facilitation, the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s Asia-Africa Market Department said.
Earlier, the Tra Linh (Vietnam) – Longbang (China) border gate had also been reopened.
On December 29, 2021, Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien sent a letter to Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China Liu Ning to discuss customs clearance and measures to handle cargo congestion at border gates.
In the letter, the minister asked the Chinese side to realise common perceptions reached by high-ranking leaders of the two countries on the expansion of the bilateral trade and the maintenance of the supply chain.
He suggested Guangxi and Vietnam’s border localities work together to deal with the goods congestion.
The Guangxi side said it has assessed COVID-19 prevention and control at the border gates with Vietnam, noting that other gates would be gradually restored based on the latest pandemic situation.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
