☀️ Morning digest January 6
Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
-Leaders of Vietnam on January 5 offered condolences to the Vatican on the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.Read full text
-Lawmakers
on January 5 passed a resolution with 476 out of 484 votes, or 95.97%, on
the dismissal of two Deputy Prime Ministers from their position during the 15th
National Assembly (NA)’s second extraordinary session.
Under the resolution, Pham Binh Minh and Vu Duc
Dam are removed from the position of Deputy Prime Minister in the 2021-2026
tenure.Read full text
-The
National Assembly (NA) passed a resolution approving Prime Minister Pham Minh
Chinh’s proposal on the appointment of two Deputy Prime Ministers at its second
extraordinary session in Hanoi on January 5.
Tran Hong Ha and Tran Luu Quang officially became
new Deputy Prime Ministers for the 2021-2026 tenure after the resolution
received “yes” votes from all of the 481 participating legislators, equivalent
to 96.68% of the total number of NA deputies.Read full text
- More
than 200 documents, photos and objects featuring the Paris negotiations for the
signing of an agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam (Paris
Peace Accords) 50 years ago are being displayed in Hanoi.
The exhibition, opened on January 5, is held by
the National Archives Center III under the Ministry of Home Affairs' State
Records and Archives Department. The documents, images and artifacts on
display are being preserved at the National Archives Centers II and III; the
archives of the Foreign Ministry, the Vietnam National Museum of History, the
national archives of the US and Russia, the liaison board of war veterans who
once served in the Joint Military Group at Davis Camp, and some witnesses
of the negotiation.Read full text
-The
Vietnam Report JSC and VietNamNet online newspaper on January 5 revealed the
list of the 500 largest enterprises in Vietnam (VNR500) and top 10 prestigious
companies in the fields of pharmacy, logistics, tourism, transportation and
animal feed in 2022.
The VNR500 list includes Samsung Electronics Thai
Nguyen Co. Ltd., Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam), Vietnam Electricity
(EVN), Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex), Hoa Phat Group JSC,
Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel), Vingroup JSC, Vietnam
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank), Mobile World Investment
Corporation and Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of
Vietnam (BIDV), among others.Read full text
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Police have launched criminal proceedings against and temporarily detained
former Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia Tran Viet Thai for the charge of
“abusing position and power while performing duties”.
Nguyen Hoang Linh, a former official of the
Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia, was also prosecuted for the same charge and
banned from leaving his residence place, Lt. Gen. To An Xo, Chief of the Office
and Spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), said on January 5.Read full text
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More than 549 million USD worth of new and additional investment was poured
into export processing and industrial zones of Ho Chi Minh City in 2022, about
9.8% higher than the target, statistics showed.
The capital comprises 196.6 million USD in foreign
investment and over 8.15 trillion VND (352.48 million USD) in domestic
investment, the HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority
(HEPZA) said on January 5.Read full text/.