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CPTPP trade deal officially takes effect
The 11-member Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) officially came into force on December 30, creating a free trade area covering more than a tenth of the global economy.The CPTPP will cut tariffs on agricultural and industrial products, ease investment regulations and enhance protection ...
Draft resolution for achieving 2019 socio-economic goals announced
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue announced a draft resolution of the Government on key tasks and solutions to achieve socio-economic development goals and State budget estimate for 2019 during a conference on December 28.The governmental Resolution No.1 was crafted based on 12 major goals ...
Vietnam’s exports more sophisticated: WB
Vietnam’s exports have become more sophisticated with an impressive diversification of exports and increases in higher-value manufacturing exports, according to a recent World Bank report.The report found that manufacturing exports now accounted for about 85 per cent of total exports, up from 65 per cent in ...
New general educational curriculum unveiled
The Ministry of Education and Training on Thursday unveiled a new general educational curriculum which aims to reduce pressure on students and allow them to choose subjects they enjoy.The new curriculum, which focuses on students’ activities to develop their competence, is divided into two phases. The ...
Social network etiquette for journalists released
The Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA) has publicized social network rules for journalists, highlighting the four do’s and eight don’ts for them. Accordingly, journalists should use their accounts on social networks to interact with one another, share and post information that serves interests of the society ...
Vietnam conducts tsunami warning exercise
The standing office of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, in collaboration with the Institute of Geophysics, conducted an exercise on the operational mechanism of disaster warning systems in case of a tsunami, in Hanoi on December 26.The Prime Minister issued ...
Nguyen Minh
Nearly 100 new procedures facilitate National Single Window in 2018
There are 145 administrative procedures by relevant ministries and agencies which have been connected to the National Single Window (NSW), according to the latest data from the General Department of Vietnam Customs.Notably, the number of such procedures in 2018 was up to 98, while from ...
12th CPV’s ninth session opens, discusses personnel preparation
Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng opened the ninth session of the 12th Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee today. During the session, members of the Party Central Committee are expected to discuss personnel planning for the CPV Central Committee for ...
Record-breaking Vietnamese organ transplants from a single donor
Vietnamese doctors have successfully transplanted six organs from one donor to four patients for the first time.Tran Binh Giang, head of Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital announced on December 24 that the donor was a 40-year-old brain dead patient. According to his family, he had expressed the ...
Hoang Hai
Law ensures citizens’ right to information access
The Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) co-held a seminar in Hanoi on December 24 to introduce leaflets on the Law on Access to InformationCatherine Phuong, a UNDP representative in Vietnam, ensuring people’s right to information access is one of the ...
