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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has recorded significant achievements in managing national foreign debts over the past three decades, said an official at a workshop held in Hanoi on January 26. Vo Huu Hien, Vice General Director of the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Debt Management and External Finance, made the statement, adding that the effective management has transformed Vietnam from a poor and heavily indebted country into a one receiving international organisations’ recognition as having a controlled external debt level and being excluded from the group of countries with a debt burden. According to data from the ministry, the public sector’s proportion in the structure of the national external debt decreased from 73.6 percent in 2010 to 63.4 percent in 2015 and 43.7 percent in 2020. The Government’s foreign loans are mainly official development assistance and concessional loans. To date, Vietnam has signed more than 85 billion USD worth of these loans. … [Read more...] about Progresses seen in Vietnam management of national foreign debts: workshop

Speaking at the general discussion session of the high-level meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2019, with the theme "Increasing power, ensuring equality and comprehension for the people”, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Van Trung shared Vietnam's experiences in integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the process of developing Vietnam’s social-economic development strategies and the ways to mobilize resources from the public and private sectors as well as foreign resources to implement the SDGs in Vietnam. … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved

In 2017, when participating in CSIP's project, mainly focusing on supporting poor and disadvantaged households, we were consulted by project staff, pointing out our strengths to carry out. implementing projects such as focusing on recycling brocade of black Mong people in Sa Pa (re-using brocade, innovating dresses, bags, belts by dyeing, cutting ...); homestay tourism development model. As a result, the lives of ethnic minority women have been increasingly improved, ensuring livelihoods and sustainable escaping from poverty. … [Read more...] about Efforts to empower ethnic minority women

Finally, HCMC is going to invest in more construction projects to build new specialized hospitals to make a group of hi-tech medical institutes in Binh Chanh District, comprising a blood bank, a verification center for medical tests, the second branch of Emergency Center 115, the second branch of Binh Dan Hospital, a practice hospital under the management of Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, specialized hospitals for oriental medicine, otolaryngology, odonto-stomatology, heart, spinal spine. … [Read more...] about HCMC aiming at becoming specialized medical center of ASEAN

Don Lam, deputy head of Vietnam’s Private Economic Development Research Board, said that the two countries are seeing positive figures in trade relations with Vietnam’s imports from India rising 65 percent between 2017 and 2020 to reach $4.5 billion. … [Read more...] about Indian investment in Vietnam yet to match potential: official