Foreign remittances to HCM City in the first nine months of the year increased by 22 per cent. – Photo vietnamplus.vn HCM CITY – Foreign remittances to HCM City in the first nine months of the year were worth US$5.1 billion, a 22 per cent increase year-on-year. Nguyễn Hoàng Minh, deputy director of the State Bank of Việt Nam’s HCM City branch, said the growth rate is impressive considering the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy. Overseas Vietnamese have faced difficulties travelling abroad or back to Việt Nam for the past two years due to the pandemic, and so “they might be having more savings than before,” he suggested. Most of the remittances was money sent back by overseas Vietnamese to their families to help them get through the pandemic or to invest in business activities, he said. The main sources remained the US, Australia, Canada, and Europe, he said. Total remittances this year could increase by 12 per cent from last year’s $6.1 billion, he said. …
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Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation donates 1,800 gifts to COVID-19 patients in Hanoi
The gifts containing high-quality, healthy, and nutritious South Korean instant porridge were presented to Thanh Nhan Hospital, Ha Dong General Hospital, and Dong Da General Hospital in Hanoi, all of which participate in the quarantine and treatment of COVID-19 patients. Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation donated 1,800 instant meals to COVID-19 patients in Hanoi Dao Ngoc Trieu, chairman of the Hanoi Red Cross Society said, "More than five months have passed since the pandemic heavily affected the lives of the people. To date, the pandemic has basically been under control nationwide, but there are still many patients under treatment, and many of them are in difficult situations. In the meantime, we are greatly pleased to collaborate with many organisations, including aT, that present aid packages and encourage people to overcome this challenge”. Park Min Cheol, representative of aT ASEAN Hanoi shared, “aT is a state-owned corporation under the South …
The Local Game: Steve Darby and winning recognition at home
Darby had a brief stint in charge of the Vietnamese national women's team. — Photo laodong.vn Peter Cowan That Roy Hodgson is revered in Sweden rather than his home country says a lot more about England than it does the coach or the Scandinavian country. If it didn’t happen in the English top flight after 1992, it’s not worth knowing about for fans and pundits alike, whether you revolutionised the professional game in another country or not. If Roy Hodgson must suffer the indignity of being remembered for his struggles with a limited England team rather than his many successes overseas, what chance does Steve Darby have of some well-deserved recognition in Blighty? Not that the Liverpudlian is desperate for acknowledgement in his home country, at least judging by his recently released biography. The Itinerant Coach – the Footballing Life and Times of Steve Darby was written by Antony Sutton of the Jakarta Casual blog fame and tells the story of Darby’s career as a player …
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