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HCM City (VNA) - HCM City’s Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee has expressed its appreciation of the southern city’s Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s active engagement in local COVID-19 response over the last year, Standing Vice Chairman of the committee Nguyen Thanh Trung told a conference on January 26. The conference was held by the Executive Board of the VFF committee to review Buddhist affairs last year and map out orientations for 2021. Trung said the VBS proved itself an important VFF member and became a symbol of national unity. Recognising its achievements in Buddhist affairs in 2020, he also praised the VBS for proactively supporting the city in combating COVID-19 and joining humanitarian, charitable, and social welfare programmes. Such efforts have helped inspire and promote patriotism and consolidate the national great unity while contributing to developing HCM City as a civilised, modern city with a good quality of life, he said. The conference … [Read more...] about HCM City’s Buddhist unit hailed for active engagement in COVID-19 response

Emin Turan, country lead for Sanofi Indochina, said, "Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still evolving in many countries around the world, Viet Nam has kept the pandemic well under control and gradually entered the stage of economic recovery.”  … [Read more...] about Health minister honours Sanofi for contribution to COVID prevention

Foreign affairs and international integration will be promoted, with stronger ties between Party diplomacy, State diplomacy and people-to-people diplomacy; building a modern diplomatic foundation with a focus on defence and security diplomacy to protect the country from afar, on economic diplomacy to boost economic development (aiming to take full advantage of the opportunities brought about by international integration, especially free trade deals), and on expanding cultural diplomacy to promote the image and brand value of Việt Nam to the world. … [Read more...] about Việt Nam aims to become a socialist-oriented developed nation by mid-21st century

As one of the few countries that could make this report, Vietnam identified resources to implement the SDGs in five key areas: education, health, transport, rural areas, electricity and water by 2030, with about US$108 billion, of which the public sector can only provide $75.8 billion. The remaining resources can be mobilized from the private sector through public-private partnerships (PPP) projects, ODA and other financial sources. The Vietnamese Government has always determined that if the problem of poverty is not addressed, the development objectives such as economic growth, stability and human rights cannot be fulfilled. … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved

Better delivery MNCs made some advances in Vietnamese operations in 2020 despite COVID-19. While this past year has been a real test to the whole world, AZ’s innovative and patient-centric spirit has helped it not only rise to the unique challenges posed by the pandemic but also maintain remarkable growth. … [Read more...] about Pharma groups redouble patient-centric efforts