– Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the Vietnam -Australia Business Forum in Melbourne on March 5 morning (local time) as partof his ongoing trip to Australia to attend the ASEAN - Australia Special Summitand pay an official visit to Australia.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh addresses the Vietnam - Australia Busine🐼ss Forum in Melbourne on March 5 (Photo: VNA) – The Vietnamese Government always creates all favourableconditions for airlines, both state-owned and private, to develop and competehealthily, and encourages Australian carriers to fly to Vietnam, Prime MinisterPham Minh Chinh stated at a ceremony to mark 30 years of Vietnam – Australiadirect air route in Melbourne city on March 5 morning.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (6th from the left) and other delegates at the ceremony. (Photo: VNA) - President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel has affirmed healways treasures and highly evaluates the traditional friendship andmulti-faceted cooperation with Vietnam while receiving Vietnamese AmbassadorDuong Hoai Nam who came to present President Vo Van Thuong's credentials inPrague on March 4.
President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel (R) and&♕nbsp;Vietnamese Ambassꦺador Duong Hoai Nam. (Photo: VNA) – Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army(VPA) and Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuongled a Vietnamese delegation to the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Retreat(ADMM-Retreat) held in the northern Lao city of Luang Prabang on March 5.
Heads of delegations at ADMM Retreat (Photo: VNA) – President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour(VGCL) Nguyen Dinh Khang shared VGCL’s outstanding activities at the secondconference of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) Presidential Councilheld in Sao Paolo, Brazil from March 1-2 (local time).
Khang, who is also WFTU Vice President, said inhis speech on March 1 that under the leadership of the Communist Party ofVietnam, the VGCL has reaped important achievements in its tasks ofrepresenting, caring for and protecting trade union members and workers. Italso successfully held the 13th National Congress for the 2023-2028 tenure lastyear, which aligned with working orientations set at the 18th World Trade UnionCongress. Read full story
– The export of products of the foreign direct investment(FDI) and traditional products of domestic enterprises are expected to reboundthis year, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan has saidin a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).
The official revealed that the number of exportproducts logging over 1 billion USD in turnover each has increased over theyears and accounts for a significant proportion of the country's total exportvalue. There were only 23 commodities with export earnings of over 1 billionUSD in 2013, and the figure increased to 29 in 2018 and 35 in 2023. Read full story
– The foreign direct investment (FDI) sector maintained itsrole as an export pillar of Vietnam’s economy with revenue of 43.2 billion USDin the first two months of this year, up 14.7%, and accounting for 72.8% of thecountry’s total export value.
Exports of items as phones, computers, machinery,equipment and garments-textiles experienced strong growth, ranging from 4.1% to33.9%, Dau tu (Investment) Newspaper reported./. Read full story
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