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Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous locality and largest financial centre in Vietnam, is speeding up procedures to build three more metro lines with a total capital of more than US$5 billion alongside the two ongoing Metro lines No.1 and No.2.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 6 attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the Hue Vsico port and another to inaugurate Phu Son waste-to-power plant, and inspected a project to build Nguyen Hoang road and a bridge crossing Huong river in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

(CPV) - Miss Intercontinental 2022 Le Nguyen Bao Ngoc together with Gaia Nature Conservation Center have recently participated in planting forests at Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Thanh Hoa province in order to improve watershed protection, absorb CO2, protect water security and respond to climate change.

On October 11, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly elected Vietnam and 13 other countries to be members of the Council of Nations for the 2023 - 2025 term. Continuing the ongoing tasks and goals assuming this position, from the beginning of 2024, Vietnam actively prepared for activities at the high-level meeting of the 55th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHUN), held from February 26-29, 2024, in Geneva (Switzerland).

On the occasion of the Bunpimay Festival of Laos and the Chol Chnam Thmay Festival of Cambodia, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong has sent letters and flowers of greetings to General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, and President of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and President of the Cambodian Senate Hun Sen.

A number of original documents and records about the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and the 1954 Geneva Conference were made public for the first time and introduced to the media on April 5.

Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Ha Tinh Provincial Party Committee Tran The Dung suggested that each officer, Party member, and public security soldier continue to improve revolutionary moral qualities, considering studying and following Uncle Ho’s example as a regular daily job.

Through the first 3 months of 2024, the number of Vietnamese laborers going to work abroad reached nearly 36,000, including 11,000 female laborers, the Overseas Labourer Management Department under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has reported.

Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Bac Ninh Provincial Party Committee and Head of the Provincial Delegation of National Assembly, recently has a working session with SonKim Land Company on exploring investment in the field of urban development in the province.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 4 highlighted the important role of preschool education to the national education system as well as the country’s human resources development.

Speaking at the ceremony to celebrate the university’s 30th anniversary and grant the First Class Labour Medal, Acting President Vo Thi Anh Xuan said that the university’s scientific research had achieved many important results.

On April 3, Acting State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and the delegation came to offer incense to commemorate President Ho Chi Minh at the Memorial House on top of De Pass, Phu Dinh commune, Dinh Hoa district in Thai Nguyen province.

Ho Chi Minh City needs to create about 75,400-77,100 jobs; of which, the human resource needs of four key industries is about 12,300-12,500, accounting for 16.8% of the total need, according to the Center of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information of Ho Chi Minh City (FALMI).

Cherry blossoms bloom throughout Japan from March to May every year. In Vietnam, this flower also blooms in the historical land of Dien Bien province.

Acting President Vo Thi Anh Xuan on April 3 visited and presented gifts to those who have rendered service to the nation, and disadvantaged children in Dinh Hoa district, the northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen, once a revolutionary base.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the Government’s regular meeting and a teleconference between the Government and the 63 localities on April 3 to discuss the socio-economic situation in March and the first quarter and set tasks for Q2.

On April 2, at Nam Hai hamlet, Dai Hai commune (Ke Sach district, Soc Trang province), monks and the Management Board of Ante Kosey Sirey Labach Pagoda held a ceremony to announce the decision to recognize Ante Kosey Sirey Labach Pagoda as a base of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha under the management system of the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Soc Trang province.

A delegation of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) led by Mr. Nguyen Ho Hai, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee, has offered flowers at President Ho Chi Minh’s Monument at Ho Chi Minh Park in Cerro Navia district, Chile, within the framework of a working visit to the Republic of Chile.

The Department of Education and Training of Dien Bien province on April 2 opened a Lao language training course for 21 officials, civil servants and public employees of the province.

The Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City has just issued a plan to construct Ho Chi Minh cultural spaces in the field of Culture and Sports until 2025.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 2 chaired a hybrid conference with Vietnamese representative agencies abroad and provinces and cities nationwide to discuss enhancing economic diplomacy and its role in Vietnam’s development in 2024 and beyond.

(CPV) - On the occasion of their traditional New Year festival Chol Chnam Thmay 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent a letter of congratulations to Khmer people, monks and nuns.

On April 1, the Hai Duong Provincial Party Committee Commission on Popularization and Education launched the writing contest "Uncle Ho with Hai Duong, Hai Duong with Uncle Ho".

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a teleconference with ministries, agencies, localities and units on April 1 to review the progress of the 500kV circuit-3 power transmission line linking Quang Trach in the central province of Quang Binh and Pho Noi in the northern province of Hung Yen.

On March 30, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited Phu Quoc Martyrs’ Cemetery, offered incense at Phu Quoc Martyrs' Memorial Temple and inspected the construction site of President Ho Chi Minh's monument during a working visit to Phu Quoc city, Kien Giang province.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on March 30 held a ceremony to receive the certificate of membership of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities.

Since the beginning of the year, the Government, ministries, branches and localities have supported 17,700 tons of rice for the people, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has reported.

On January 30, the Binh Chanh District Public Security Party Committee held the inauguration of the President Ho Chi Minh Memorial Room.

A high-ranking delegation of the National Assembly (NA) led by its Vice Chairman Tran Quang Phuong paid a working visit to Poland from March 27-30, after their attendance at the 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-148) in Switzerland.

Following his tour of Phu Quoc city in Kien Giang province, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a meeting with provincial and city leaders on March 30 afternoon, during which he asked the island city to soon solve the problem of rapid but unsustainable development, and address bottlenecks in infrastructure, water sources, and environmental sanitation.