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Joining the program for the first time, Kang Sung Hun was happy while doing a meaningful activity for local children and community. The Korean student promised to promote the charity program to friends at home. … [Read more...] about Korean students help build communal house

People in Phu Tho village, An Thuy commune, Quang Binh province's Le Thuy district face various difficulties during historic flooding in Oct. 2020 At the handover ceremony, UNFPA Representative in Vietnam Naomi Kitahara said the elderly are the most vulnerable group in case natural disasters occur in residential areas, as public health programs are disrupted. … [Read more...] about UNFPA presents aid to senior citizens in flood-hit central provinces

For her part, SBV Governor Hong said as the international situation is expected to remain complex and unpredictable in the 2021 - 2025 tenure and the following years, to help successfully carry out the banking sector’s political tasks and the congress’s resolution, it is needed to stay persistent in the target of keeping inflation under control and maintaining macro-economic stability. She stressed the importance of improving statistical, analysing, and forecasting activities; staying proactive, prudent, and flexible in using solutions and monetary policy tools; closely coordinating with other macro-economic policies, especially the fiscal one, so as to enhance the economy’s flexibility and resilience in the face of global economic and monetary changes; and raising the State’s foreign currency reserves. It is also necessary to tackle difficulties facing enterprises and people, assist post-pandemic economic recovery, and boost lending for production and … [Read more...] about Officials highlight circular economy, macro-economic stability at Party Congress

Some of it travelled as far as three kilometres (two miles) away from its peak, Indonesia's geological agency said. Authorities told residents to stay outside a five-kilometre no-go zone, warning about possible lava flows. Fiery red lava has been seen flowing down the volcano in recent days, but authorities have kept its alert status at the second-highest level. Mount Merapi's last major eruption in 2010 killed more than 300 people, and forced the evacuation of around 280,000 residents from surrounding areas. That was its most powerful eruption since 1930, which killed around 1,300 people, while another explosion in 1994 took about 60 lives. Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", a vast zone of geological instability where the collision of tectonic plates causes frequent quakes and major volcanic activity. The Southeast Asian archipelago nation has nearly 130 active volcanoes. … [Read more...] about Indonesian volcano erupts, spewing hot ash three kilometres away

Hanoi (VNA) – The Times Kuwait news portal on January 27 posted an article on the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), describing this as one of the most important political events in the country in 2021. It wrote that with the results and accomplishments achieved in 2020 in particular, and during the past five years, Vietnam has made a mark with breakthroughs, outstanding in the difficult circumstances and situations facing the world. Over the past many years, Vietnam has been known as a safe country with index on human security gradually improving. With political stability, the Vietnamese people now believe in the political system and in the leadership levels of the CPV, as a result of which the important decisions of the Party are often fully supported by the Vietnamese people. In 2020, the highlight for Vietnam was the very early control of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also managing to promote economic growth; and the success of the government … [Read more...] about Vietnam makes a mark with breakthroughs amid difficulties: Kuwaiti news portal