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Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam has highlighted India’s economic achievements despite global instabilities, trade tension and the COVID-19 pandemic at the WTO’s 7th review of India’s trade policies and practices. At the event held on January 6 – 8, Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation (WTO), and other international organisations, said the economy kept its average growth at 7.36 percent for 2015-2020 and 4.2 percent for 2019-2020. Underscoring increasingly strengthened comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and India, the diplomat said India has been one of important trade and investment partners of Vietnam in the past decade and among the top ten biggest trade partner of Vietnam in recent years. She agreed with a number of India’s stances and affirmed that adhering to the WTO’s trade rules is the only solution to the emerging crisis and it will continue to play an … [Read more...] about Vietnam lauds India’s growth at WTO trade review

First to get one of two vaccines granted "emergency approval" will be 30 million health and other frontline workers, followed by around 270 million people aged over 50 or deemed high-risk all over the vast nation. About 150,000 staff in 700 districts have been specially trained, and India has held several national dry runs involving mock transportation of vaccines and dummy injections. Authorities will use the experience from holding elections in the world's biggest democracy, and from regular child immunisation programmes for polio and tuberculosis. But in an enormous, impoverished nation with often shoddy transport networks and one of the world's worst-funded healthcare systems, the undertaking is still daunting. Regular child inoculations are a "much smaller game" and vaccinating against Covid-19 will be "deeply challenging", said Satyajit Rath from the National Institute of Immunology. The two vaccines approved by India -- AstraZeneca's Covishield, made by local partner the … [Read more...] about India readies colossal coronavirus vaccine rollout

Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh and Indian Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar co-chaired the 13th Vietnam-India defence policy dialogue at deputy ministerial level which was held on January 12 via videoconference. The two sides agreed that despite impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the defence cooperation between Vietnam and India has been maintained and developed with the implementation of agreements signed by leaders of the two countries and Defence Ministries. They spoke highly of the organisation of online conferences to carry out agreed plans and exchange experience in preventing and fighting COVID-19 as well as seek measures to promote post-pandemic cooperation. Both sides agreed that in the future, they will continue to effectively conduct cooperation contents, especially outcomes of the high-level talks between the two Prime Ministers on December 21, 2020 and the telephone talks between the two Defence Ministers on November  27, … [Read more...] about Vietnam, India strengthen defence ties

A dog drinks water from a puddle of water next to the cracked soil at Manjara dam in Osmanabad, India, April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui … [Read more...] about Trafficking risk rises as villagers flee India’s worst drought in decades

However, Cường, a powerful boxing manager, prevents Long from returning to the ring because of Long’s supposed insolence toward him. Long faces a struggle between the pride of a man who does not know how to bow his head and the peace of his family. … [Read more...] about Việt Nam-India film about retired boxer opens nationwide today