Day: January 11, 2023

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and a working delegation on January 11 visited and presented 200 Tet gifts to policy beneficiary families, poor and ethnic minority households and disadvantaged workers in Chau Doc district, the southern province of An Giang.

The NA Chairman extended best wishes to the provincial Party committee, authorities, people and arm forces in the locality on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival which falls on January 22 this year.

Hue expressed his delight that in addition to the attention and care of the Party and State, Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organisations at all levels have mobilised individuals and organisations to contribute to the Fund For the Poor and the Tet programme, thereby taking care of poor, near-poor households and people with difficult circumstances to enjoy a happy Tet holiday.

He suggested that the local authorities continue to care for local residents, ensuring it is a joyful, healthy, thrifty and safe Tet and that no one is left behind.

On the occasion, the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development donated 100 million VND (4,270 USD) to support Tet gifts for ethnic minorities while the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade offered 1,000 packages of gifts worth 500 million VND to poor households and policy beneficiary families.

The same day, the NA Chairman visited and extended New Year greetings to Tran Son Ha, a revolutionary veteran residing in Long Xuyen city./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited former senior leaders of Laos on January 11 as part of his official trip to the country.

He visited former General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Choummaly Sayasone, former Party General Secretary and State President Bounnhang Vorachith, and former PM Thongsing Thammavong.

PM Chinh thanked the former Lao leaders for their enormous contributions to the two countries’ faithful relations and special solidarity, as well as their support for the comprehensive development of bilateral friendship and cooperation.

He informed his hosts about the outcomes of his talks and meetings with leaders of the Lao Party, State, Government, and National Assembly, expressing his delight at the brilliant success of the Solidarity and Friendship Year 2022.

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Vietnam always gives the top priority to the special solidarity with Laos and considers this as a priceless asset of their revolutions, he noted, pledging utmost efforts to unceasingly nurture the countries’ great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation.

For their part, the former leaders of Laos stressed the close-knit ties with Vietnam and that they are delighted at the flourishing cooperation in all spheres.

They appreciated Vietnam’s assistance for Laos and called for increased cooperation and sharing of experience in socio-economic stabilisation and development.

They also emphasised the need to continue educating the two peoples, especially among younger generations, on the special relations between the two countries./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Major newspapers in Laos on January 11 published editorials spotlighting the official visit by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

In an editorial on its front page, Pasaxon, the official organ of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, said the visit on January 11 and 12, made at the invitation of Lao PM Sonexay Siphandone, aims to strengthen the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries.

It noted that 2022 was a significant year as it was designated as the Laos – Vietnam Solidarity and Friendship Year, marking the 60th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties and 45 years since the signing of their Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

Diplomatic relations turned 60 last year, but the solidarity between Laos and Vietnam is much older than that, especially after the Indochinese Communist Party was founded in 1930, the newspaper said.

After many decades, the special Laos – Vietnam relations have become increasingly intensive and effective in all aspects, particularly in politics, diplomacy, defence, and security. Economic and trade links have also proved fruitful, with Vietnam remaining the third largest foreign investor and trading partner of Laos.

In 2023, the two countries will continue enhancing all-round cooperation and assisting each other in socio-economic development so as to generate real benefits for their people, according to Pasaxon.

Meanwhile, Pathet Lao, a newspaper of the Lao News Agency (KPL), wrote in its article that PM Chinh’s visit once again affirms the consistent wish of the two Parties, States, and people of Laos and Vietnam to uphold their close-knit relations and mutual trust, which are so rare in today’s world.

The writing also emphasised the Solidarity and Friendship Year 2022, when a large number of activities were held in both countries to celebrate 45 years since the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations, and to honour the two countries’ precious support for each other throughout history.

Pathet Lao added the solidarity, friendship, and fraternity between the Lao and Vietnamese people was tested through struggles and become the decisive factor of their fights for national salvation as well as a solid and sustainable stepping stone for their long-term cooperation on the path of national development.

Concluding the editorial, the newspaper wished the Laos – Vietnam traditional friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation will continue to be unabated forever./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) hosted a ceremony in Hanoi on January 11 to present a “For peace and friendship among nations” insignia to outgoing Cambodian Ambassador to Vietnam Chay Navuth.

VUFO President Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga said it was an honour to present the “For peace and friendship among nations” insignia – the most noble award of VUFO – to the Cambodian Ambassador in recognition of his contributions to promoting the friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the Vietnamese and Cambodian people.

Political ties between the two nations have been consolidated and strengthened strongly with mutual visits by their senior leaders, she said, adding that cooperative relations in the fields of economy, trade, culture, education, national defence and security have also reaped important achievements.

Two-way trade exceeded 12 billion in 2022 and the two countries have successfully organised the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Year 2022 with a wide range of diverse activities, Nga added.

The important development steps of the Vietnam-Cambodia relationship and people-to-people exchange activities held over the past three years have seen contributions by Chay Navuth and the Cambodian Embassy in Vietnam, she stressed.

Chay Navuth said it was an honour for him to receive the most noble award of VUFO.

The ambassador affirmed that he will always remember and treasure VUFO’s assistance and sentiments Vietnamese people have reserved for him during his tenure.

He promised to make every effort to contribute to the enhancement of the traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation between Cambodia and Vietnam in the future./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

A press conference was held in Hanoi on January 11 to introduce a book written by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on resolutely and persistently fighting corruption and negative phenomena to contribute to building more transparent and stronger Party and State.

The book, jointly published by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs and the Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House, presents in a systematic manner directions of Trong as the leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam and head of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena.

It demonstrates the Party’s transparent and consistent ideology on the prevention and control of corruption and negative phenomena, Party building and rectification work, and the improvement of morality and lifestyle of officials and Party members.

The 600-page book has three parts, with the first on several issues drawn from the fight against corruption and negative phenomena in Vietnam; the second featuring 22 outstanding articles on Party building and rectification of the Party chief; and the last on opinions and assessments of people from different walks of life, National Assembly deputies, and foreign politicians and scholars on Vietnam’s fight against corruption.

Speaking at the press conference, deputy head of the Commission for Internal Affairs Nguyen Thai Hoc said that the book, which will make debut on the occasion of the 93rd founding anniversary of the Party and the 10th founding anniversary of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena this year, is of significance in the context that the fight against corruption has been implemented drastically in Vietnam.

An electronic version of the book will be available at the website stbook.vn.

In the past decade, relevant agencies nationwide have commenced legal proceedings against 2,657 corruption cases involving 5,841 people, and prosecuted 2,628 cases with 6,199 defendants./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang strives for industrial production value to reach more than 48.18 trillion VND (2.04 billion USD) this year, a year-on-year increase of 8%.

The industrial production value of Kien Giang province was more than 44.6 trillion VND last year, reaching 105.3% of the plan, up 13.7% compared to 2021.

Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Truong Van Minh said that since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this had been the first year that the province’s industrial growth reached double digits.

It showed that the process of recovering production and business of industrial production facilities in the area has had many positive changes and strong development, he said.

Among them, the processing and manufacturing industry was the main growth driver of the whole industry, accounting for 95.3% of the total structure of industrial production value of the province.

Accordingly, most industrial products have positive growth. Leather shoes, bricks of all kinds, packaging, beer, frozen seafood, and stone mining have a growth rate of over 13% compared to 2021.

This result is due to the fact that the supply chain of goods has been restored after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the purchasing power increased sharply again.

Enterprises have been proactive and have appropriate business solutions, and timely implementation of supply contracts, which have contributed to the overall growth of the whole industry in the province last year.

The vice chairman of the provincial people’s committee Le Quoc Anh said that the province had stepped up the activities of the province’s steering group on restoring industrial production to synchronously and effectively deploy solutions to restore industrial production to support enterprises to accelerate the recovery and development of production and business activities.

The province would strengthen support for investors and businesses to soon complete and put into operation investment projects to enhance the capacity of the industry in the new year, especially key investment projects./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The Vietnam Embassy in Cambodia, the Khmer-Vietnamese Association, and Sacombank Cambodia on January 11 gave Lunar New Year (Tet) presents to Cambodians of Vietnamese origin with disadvantaged circumstances living in Phnom Penh.

One hundred gifts, each consisting of cash, rice, and necessities, worth a total 100 million VND (4,200 USD) have been delivered on the occasion.

Besides, the embassy also presented five gifts to revolution contributors and families of former staff of the Khmer-Vietnamese Association.

During the 2023 New Year and the Lunar New Year celebrations this year, Sacombank Cambodia launched the 20th “Warm Spring” programme taking place from December 23, 2022, to January 14, 2023 in 51 provinces and cities of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia with a total budget of more than 7.8 billion VND.

For the last 20 years, through the programme, Sacombank has spent 85.3 billion VND on support for disadvantaged families during the festive season./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Chairman of the Lao National Assembly (NA) Saysomphone Phomvihane affirmed that they always treasure and give the highest priority to consolidating and strengthening the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries.

At their meeting in Vientiane on January 11, the two leaders expressed their delight at the development of bilateral ties across all fields despite COVID-19, notably their law-making bodies have maintained high-level meetings, thematic seminars, experience sharing, and mutual coordination and support at international and regional parliamentary forums.

PM Chinh, who is paying an official visit to Laos, lauded significant and meaningful achievements made by the Lao Party, State, people in the process of national construction and development.

The Vietnamese leader spoke highly of the outcomes of Chairman Saysomphone’s official visit to Vietnam in December 2021 in contribution to strengthening the sound relationship between the two NAs and the success of the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year 2022.

For his part, Chairman Saysomphone expressed his desire to constantly tighten the close collaboration between the two legislative bodies, including their effective coordination and implementation of joint inspection activities serving better implementation of the two nations’ high-level cooperation agreements.

He suggested the two sides continue to beef up their exchange and sharing of professional experiences; organisation of related conferences and seminars; and cooperate and support each other at regional and international parliamentary forums such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF), and Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie (APF).

Appreciating Vietnam’s great support and assistance to Laos over the past time, including the construction of the Lao NA House, the Chairman highlighted his support for the constant enhancement and deepening of the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two nations./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency