Conversations on Vietnam Development
Người phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao khẳng định các hoạt động thăm dò, khảo sát tại EEZ cần được sự cho phép của Việt Nam, khi được hỏi về tàu Hải Dương 4 trên Biển Đông.
Tiếp tục đọc “Việt Nam lên tiếng về tàu thăm dò Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông”
Tiếp tục kiểm soát nhập cảnh, duy trì sẵn sàng các đội phản ứng nhanh… là các biện pháp phòng, chống dịch của Việt Nam để thực hiện mục tiêu kép.
Báo cáo cập nhật tình hình và các biện pháp phòng, chống dịch Covid-19 phục vụ hội nghị Chính phủ với các địa phương ngày 2/7, Bộ Y tế nhận định, Việt Nam đang phải đối mặt với làn sóng dịch thứ hai nếu xảy ra các ca lây nhiễm tại cộng đồng do bỏ sót các trường hợp nhập cảnh mắc bệnh, hoặc các bệnh nhân nhiễm bệnh nhưng không có triệu chứng trong cộng đồng.
Tiếp tục đọc “Các nhóm biện pháp chống Covid-19 của Việt Nam”
It said on its website that no vessel is allowed to enter the area in the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, when the drills are underway.
Lãnh đạo Chính phủ đề nghị các bộ ngành, địa phương hiến kế để “cỗ xe tam mã” gồm đầu tư – xuất khẩu – tiêu dùng bứt tốc.
Phát biểu khai mạc hội nghị Chính phủ với các địa phương sáng 2/7, Thủ tướng Nguyễn Xuân Phúc cho rằng, hai tháng rưỡi qua không có ca nhiễm Covid-19 trong cộng đồng nhờ Việt Nam đã có đối sách đúng.
Kinh tế Việt Nam có nhiều điểm sáng khi sớm đưa ra chủ trương thực hiện mục tiêu kép (chống dịch bệnh và phát triển sản xuất kinh doanh). Ông dự báo tình hình sản xuất kinh doanh của doanh nghiệp sẽ ổn định và tốt hơn trong quý III và cho rằng chủ trương kích cầu du lịch và hàng không nội địa của Chính phủ khá thành công.
Thủ tướng Nguyễn Xuân Phúc phát biểu khai mạc hội nghị Chính phủ với các địa phương, sáng 2/7. Ảnh: VGP
Tiếp tục đọc “Thủ tướng: ‘Phục hồi kinh tế cấp bách hơn bao giờ hết’”
Al Jazeera, July 2, 2020
Several of Israel’s staunchest allies have criticised its annexation plans as jeopardising the status quo.
![A demonstrator holds a cane and a Palestinian flag during a protest against US President Donald Trump's "Middle East plan" in the Jordan Valley [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/6/29/0f5a72d75d004827a3f5dc007ab471d6_18.jpg "Global reaction to Israel's imminent annexation plans")
Israel’s annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank has been fiercely criticised by not only Palestinians but by the international community at large.
The plan, which aims to annex all illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank – including the strategic Jordan Valley – amounts to one-third of the territory and is in line with US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Middle East plan,” which envisages a demilitarised Palestinian state on a patchwork of disjointed parts of the Palestinian territories.
Tiếp tục đọc “Global reaction to Israel’s imminent annexation plans”
Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate against Israel’s plan to annex a third of the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley.
![Palestinians have decried Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley as the end to a future Palestinian state [Majdi Mohammed/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/7/1/a4261542389345fa8bd60ce7f756f055_18.jpg "Israeli annexation a 'final nail in the coffin' of Palestine")
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Despite a delay in the long-anticipated declaration of an Israeli plan to annex one-third of the already illegally occupied West Bank, including parts of the strategic Jordan Valley, Palestinians decried the plan with some holding protests in Ramallah and Gaza City.
Tiếp tục đọc “Israeli annexation a ‘final nail in the coffin’ of Palestine”
Council of the EU Press release 1 July 2020 10:50
The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress adopted the National Security Law in Hong Kong on 30 June and subsequently promulgated it in Hong Kong the same day. The European Union reiterates its grave concerns about this law which was adopted without any meaningful prior consultation of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council and civil society. Tiếp tục đọc “Declaration of the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the adoption by China’s National People’s Congress of a National Security Legislation on Hong Kong.”
BANGKOK: Laos is pushing ahead with a hydropower project on the Mekong River, despite reservations aired by neighbouring countries over its potential to harm fisheries and farming downstream, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said on Wednesday (Jul 10.
The 1,400-megawatt (MW) Luang Prabang project will be Laos’s third and largest dam on the river, with construction originally set to begin this year. Tiếp tục đọc “Laos to move on third Mekong dam project despite neighbours’ green concerns”
MONTREAL: Canada must have an “urgent rethink” of its relationship with China, former prime minister Brian Mulroney said on Wednesday (Jul 1) as tensions build over the possible extradition to the United States of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Tiếp tục đọc “Former Canadian PM Mulroney calls for revised relations with China”
WASHINGTON, DC: US lawmakers on Wednesday (Jul 1) urged further action against China over its imposition of a security law in Hong Kong, where police broke up defiant protests. Tiếp tục đọc “US lawmakers seek more action on Hong Kong after arrests”
BEIJING: Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people on Wednesday (Jul 1) as protesters took to the streets in defiance of a new security law. Tiếp tục đọc “Hong Kong police arrest more than 300 protesting China’s ‘birthday gift’ of security law”
Foreigners who entered Vietnam as of March 1 but still stuck due to Covid-19 pandemic’s travel restrictions can have theirs temporary stay permits extended one more month until July 31.
The move involves a one-month extension to the current policy, issued in mid-May that allowed foreigners entering the country on a tourist visa, e-visa or visa exemption since March 1 to have their stay automatically extended until June 30, vnexpress reported.
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| British tourist Gavin Wheeldon raises a thumbs-up with two medical staff in his room at Son Tay Military School quarantine camp in Hanoi. Photo: Gavin Wheeldon |
With the latest announcement made by the Immigration Department under the Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday, foreigners will be automatically given free permit extensions until July 31, meaning they could leave Vietnam within the time period without undergoing official procedures. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam extends temporary stay permits for foreigners as Covid-19 continues”
The Company for Vaccine and Biological Production (VABIOTECH) under the Ministry of Health had two trial injection phases on lab mice, that produced good results and the facility is planning to conduct a trial of the Covid-19 vaccine on human.
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| Vietnam tests Covid-19 vaccine on lab mice. Photo: Vnexpress. |
Speaking to Zing.vn, Head of the Hanoi-based VABIOTECH company Do Tuan Dat said that the indigenous Covid-19 vaccine researched and produced by the facility in collaboration with UK’s Bristol University is heading to the next phase of the human trial, which is expected to implement in early 2021. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam prepares to put indigenous Covid-19 vaccine on human trial “
VGP – Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on June 30 held a working session with five localities in the Mekong Delta to tackle difficulties and obstacles in launching projects from the Official Development Assistance (ODA) and preferential loans.
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Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh holds a working session with five localities in the Mekong Delta to tackle difficulties and obstacles in launching projects from the Official Development Assistance (ODA) and preferential loans, Can tho City, June 30, 2020 – Photo: VGP |
Participants in the meeting included leaders and representatives of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport and leaders from Can Tho City, the provinces of Bac Lieu, Vinh Long, Ben Tre and Long An.
The Deputy PM stressed the Government’s viewpoint on accelerating the disbursement of public investment capital, including the ODA, regarding it as one of the crucial solutions to recovering and enhancing socio-economic development amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tiếp tục đọc “DPM asks Mekong Delta localities to hasten ODA, preferential loan disbursement”
HÀ NỘI — The free trade agreement between the European Union and Việt Nam, known as the EVFTA, which was signed on June 30 last year, will enter into force on August 1.
The announcement was made by the European Commission in a notice published on Tuesday.
The EVFTA will abolish 65 per cent of the duties on EU exports to its developing partner, with the remainder phased out over a 10-year period.
For Việt Nam’s exports to the EU, the EVFTA will also eliminate 71 per cent of export duties from August 1, and the rest will be eliminated over a seven-year period. Tiếp tục đọc “EVFTA to come into effect in a month”
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