Foreign affairs

Localities with a large number of industrial zones must ensure workers strictly comply with coronavirus infection prevention and control measures and prepare field hospitals for quarantine and treatment. Local authorities must continue suspending religious gatherings. … [Read more...] about Social distancing prevents Covid-19 upsurge: PM

Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to archive electronic documents of State-run agencies from 2020-2025. The project aims to make it easier for people and businesses to access and use the archives of State agencies. It will also improve the system of legal and professional guidance documents stored in electronic archives, and ensure at least 80 percent of the documents stored at State agencies are created online in accordance with the law on e-transactions and e-archiving. The Government leader assigned the Ministry of Home Affairs to supervise the implementation of the project and make annual reports to the Prime Minister. He tasked the ministry with submitting reports to the National Assembly for amendments and supplements to the Law on Archives to meet the requirements of e-archive management due to be completed in 2021./. … [Read more...] about PM approves project to increase use of e-documents

Hanoi (VNA) – The Secretariat of the Party Central Committee has ordered stronger leadership, inspections, supervisions and actions against wrongdoings in personnel work in general and in the recruitment of officials and public employees in particular. In a recently-issued conclusion, the Secretariat pointed out bottlenecks in handling wrongdoings even found in the appointment of leading and managerial positions, or in the personnel preparation for Party Committees for the 2020-2025 tenure.  Given this, all-level Party Committees and organisations, and leaders of relevant agencies and units were asked to promptly detect and handle the wrongdoings. Recruitment decisions may be revoked in case of violations, the Secretariat said, stressing the need to identify the responsibility of those involved. The Government’s Party Civil Affairs Committee will assign the Ministry of Home Affairs to issue documents guiding the settlement of wrongdoings this month. The Party … [Read more...] about Party Secretariat urges stronger actions against recruitment, appointment wrongdoings

According to Tracey McDermott, group head of Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing, in the past 18 months, the bank has made a series of commitments which are all geared towards supporting the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the transition to a cleaner, greener, fairer economy. … [Read more...] about Standard Chartered commits $75 billion toward SDGs

The report also pointed out that the manufacturing sector with foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports will continue to be the main growth engines of Vietnam. The increase in the number of tourists coming to Vietnam as well as domestic visitors thanks to the increase in wage income is expected to help the country maintain its growth rate. … [Read more...] about Vietnam becomes high-light of ASEAN in trade growth