Day: January 30, 2023

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue offered several development suggestions to the northern province of Tuyen Quang during a working session with its key officials on January 30.

 

NA Chairman Hue suggested Tuyen Quang complete the provincial planning pertaining land and urban development in line with the National Master Plan which was approved by the legislature during the recent second extraordinary meeting.

 

He noted that the province should review issues related to public investment, three national target programmes and resources for socio-economic infrastructure development.

 

In order to develop tourism, the province should improve livelihoods for residents in the immediate future, thus creating resources for consumption demand and socio-economic development, he said.

 

As a revolutionary base with a number of well-known relic sites, he proposed further heed to cultural development to facilitate ecological and historical tourism such as Tan Trao special national relic site and Na Hang – Lam Binh national landmark.

 

Further attention should be paid to social welfare, poverty reduction and new rural development as well as national defence-security, he said.

 

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Chau Van Lam said the Congress of the provincial Party Committee for the 2020-2025 tenure set the goal of achieving a five-year average of 8% growth in gross domestic product, reducing the rate of poor households to 9.99% by 2025, striving to turn Tuyen Quang into a fairly, comprehensively and sustainably developed province in the northern mountainous region.

 

In the afternoon the same day, Chairman Hue offered incense and planted trees at Tan Trao special national relic site./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance revised up the prices of petrol in the latest adjustment on January 30.

 

Accordingly, the retail price of RON 95 went up 990 VND per litre to 23,140 VND (0.91 USD) from 7pm the same day.

 

The price of E5 RON 92 rose by 970 VND per litre to 22,320 VND while diesel price increased by 890 VND per litre to 22,520 VND.

 

The two ministries also decided to extract 850 VND per litre from E5 RON 92 and 950 VND per litre from RON 95 for the petrol price stabilisation fund./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

 

A grand concert to welcome the Year of the Cat was held at Hanoi Opera House on January 29 with the performance of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) and the People’s Public Security Theatre.

 

The New year concert 2023 was sponsored by the Ministry of Public Security as a present to officers, soldiers and their relatives on the occasion of the new lunar new year.

 

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The audience at the event (Photo: VNA)

 

Following the success of the first one in 2022, the concert has been made an annual event on the 8th day of the first lunar year.

 

The event this year gathered about 100 artists. It introduced a number of famous songs of Vietnam re-composed for the symphony orchestra such as “Mua xuan dau tien” (The first spring) and “Nguoi Ha Noi” (The Hanoian); and other western and eastern classical pieces about Spring./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

 

The 2023 Khai ha (going down to the field) festival, the biggest traditional folk event of the Muong ethnic group in the northwestern province of Hoa Binh, took place at the provincial level for the first time from January 27 – 29 (the sixth to eighth day of the lunar new year).

 

The enticing festival featured a series of cultural, art, sport activities, and folk games, including a Muong Bi night market, Muong ethnic costume fashion show, musical exchange, and demonstrations of traditional crafts, among many others.

 

Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh said the annual event, preserved by local people, embodies many traditional, cultural and historical values and attracts a large number of locals and tourists.

 

In 2022, the Khai ha festival of the Muong people in Tan Lac, Lac Son, Cao Phong, and Kim Boi district was recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage.

 

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Locals join a ritual of going to the field to mark a new year of bumper harvest and prosperity. (Photo: VNA)

 

The festival, also dubbed as the ploughing or forest opening festival, has connection with the wet rice cultivation which carries a sign of civilisation of the ancient Vietnamese. It has become an indispensable cultural activity of the Muong people in the new year.

 

Khai ha in each Muong region takes place at different times and places. Each site is associated with the history of the gods meriting the land and the ethnic community./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Vietnam’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,526,461 with 53 new cases recorded on January 30, according to the Ministry of Health.

 

With three patients given the all-clear on the day, the number of recoveries rose to 10,612,147.

 

Meanwhile, there are eight patients needing breathing support.

 

The death toll from the disease was still kept at 43,186.

 

More than 266.07 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Vietnam so far./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

 

Police of Ho Chi Minh City have finished an investigation into Nguyen Phuong Hang, General Director of the Dai Nam JSC, and three accomplices for the charge of “abusing rights of freedom and democracy to infringe upon interests of the State, rights and legitimate interests of organisations and individuals”.

 

The police have proposed the municipal People’s Procuracy prosecute the four for the charge under Article 331 of the 2015 Penal Code.

 

According to investigation results, Hang, born in 1971 and residing in District 1 of HCM City, took advantage of her influence to spread unverified information about other people’s private lives via social networks.

 

In about March 2021, via her social network accounts, Hang organised many livestreams during which she talked about some people’s private lives and used words that were “humiliating and insulting” to their honour and dignity.

 

She was put into temporary detention on March 24, 2022.

 

On November 30, 2022, police launched a probe into Nguyen Thi Mai Nhi (born in 1983, assistant to Nguyen Phuong Hang), Le Thi Thu Ha (born in 1992, employee of the Dai Nam JSC), and Huynh Cong Tan (born in 1994, head of the communications division of the Dai Nam JSC), who were accused of helping Hang hold the livestreams. They were also banned from leaving their living places./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

 

There were 797 traffic accidents nationwide from December 15, 2022 to January 14, 2023, killing 508 people and injuring 505 others, reported Chief of the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee Tran Huu Minh on January 30.

 

Compared to the same period last year, the numbers of accidents, fatalities and wounded victims were down 17.75%, 10.88% and 14.26%, respectively.

 

On roads, 790 accident cases claimed 505 lives and left 504 others injured, representing respective decreases of 17.62%, 10.3% and 14.29%.

 

Meanwhile, seven railway accidents killed three people and injured one. Year-on-year, the numbers of cases and injured people were unchanged while that of fatalities was down by two.

 

No accident was recorded on waterway, compared to three cases leaving two dead the same period last year./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

 

 

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting with ministries, sectors, and Mekong Delta localities in Can Tho city on January 30 to look into the progress of some transport projects.

 

The working session followed his fact-finding tour of some key transport projects after the Lunar New Year holiday.

 

PM Chinh said the Mekong Delta, comprising 12 provinces and one city, holds a critically important role, boasts huge potential, but is also the region most vulnerable to climate change in Vietnam.

 

Breakthroughs in transport infrastructure and human resources will help this region develop more strongly in the coming time, he went on, noting that promoting transport infrastructure projects will also help accelerate public investment disbursement, one of the driving forces for national socio-economic recovery and development.

 

According to the PM-approved road network planning for 2021 – 2030, with a vision to 2050, the Mekong Delta will have six expressways with the total length of 1,166km. Some projects are underway and about 554km of expressways are expected to be completed by 2026, while the rest will be built between 2026 and 2030.

 

The PM affirmed that developing transport infrastructure, especially expressways, in the Mekong Delta is an objective requirement, so actions must be taken without hesitation to obtain observable and measurable results.

 

He demanded consensus, strong determination, great efforts, and drastic and effective actions, adding the sooner expressways are opened, the sooner the Mekong Delta can benefit from them.

 

Applauding ministries, sectors, and localities’ performance, the Government leader asked them to coordinate more closely in developing transport facilities, particularly expressways, in the region.

 

They need to quickly finish procedures in the first half of 2023 so as to start the remaining projects soon, PM Chinh said./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency