Vietnam

HANOI, May 23 (NNN-VNA) – Over 69 million voters across Vietnam are casting their votes today, to elect deputies to the country’s National Assembly (NA) and members of People’s Councils at all levels.

Held every five years, the election this year, started at 7.00 a.m. local time, at around 80,000 polling stations nationwide.

HANOI, Apr 29 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam recorded an estimated 206.51 billion U.S. dollars of two-way trade value, in the first four months of this year, with a trade surplus of 1.29 billion dollars, the country’s General Statistics Office said today.

The total value surged 29.5 percent year on year, the highest four-month growth rate for the country, over the past 10 years, according to the office.

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam’s National Assembly confirmed Pham Minh Chinh, a career security official, as the south east Asian country’s next prime minister at an official ceremony on Monday.

The move completes the five-yearly renewal of Vietnam’s top four positions, as it looks to maintain economic growth, keep the coronavirus pandemic at bay, and balance relations with Beijing and Washington.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam administered its first COVID-19 doses Monday to the front-line workers who made the nation’s relative success in controlling the pandemic possible — health workers, contact tracers and security forces who handled quarantine duties.

The Southeast Asian nation of 96 million people has a goal to inoculate at least half of the population by the end of the year.

Thousands of doctors, nurses and technicians working at hospitals designated to treat COVID-19 patients lined up in the morning and received the first jabs of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

HANOI, Mar 1 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam recorded export turnovers of nearly 48.6 billion U.S. dollars and import turnovers of roughly 47.3 billion U.S. dollars, in the first two months of this year, with a trade surplus of around 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, according to the General Statistics Office today.

The export and import revenues respectively rose 23.2 percent and 25.9 percent, year on year, said the office.

HANOI, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) concluded Monday morning in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi.

During the eight-day congress, delegates reviewed the party building work and the leadership of the 12th CPV Central Committee (CPVCC), before electing new leaders for the 13th term. They also reviewed the past 35 years of the country's reform cause, discussed the implementation of the 10-year socio-economic development strategy, among other issues.

HANOI (Reuters) - Nguyen Phu Trong, re-elected as Vietnam’s most powerful man on Sunday, is one of the Southeast Asian country’s strongest and longest-serving leaders since founding revolutionary Ho Chi Minh.

Trong, 76, winning a rare third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party at a five-yearly party congress, combines decades at the pinnacles of power with the cultivated image of a frugal wordsmith serving the nation of 98 million people.

HANOI (Reuters) - Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party chief, has been nominated for a rare third term, a Party official said, according to several state media articles that were published on Wednesday then subsequently amended, removing the comments.

On Monday, more than 1,600 delegates began nine days of mostly closed-doors meetings at the Party’s five-yearly Congress, during which a new leadership team will be picked to bolster Vietnam’s ongoing economic success - and the legitimacy of the Party’s rule.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Almost 1,600 leading members of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party meet this week to approve future policy and help select the nation’s top leaders amid talk whether the current party chief will stay.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, 76, defied conventional wisdom by winning a second term in 2016 against a favored opponent. Trong has made his name by presiding over economic growth and waging a popular war on corruption.

HANOI, Jan 14 (NNN-VNS) — Three volunteers who received a 25mcg dose of Nanocovax – the first Vietnamese COVID-19 vaccine to be tested on humans – last December received their second shot Wednesday.

The three, comprising one male and two females aged between 20 and 25, are among the first 20 volunteers given the vaccine on Dec 17, 2020.

Professor Do Quyet, Director of the Hanoi-based Vietnam Military Medical University, said the second shot comes 28 days after the first one.