The Consulate General of India in Ho Chi Minh City will team up with the Vietnam Yoga Federation to roll out the 2023 International Yoga Day in 22 provinces and cities in Vietnam’s southern region at the end of June. This edition will be the biggest ever since the yoga fest was first launched in the Southeast Asian nation in 2015, Consul General of India in Ho Chi Minh City Madan Mohan Sethi told a press briefing on Tuesday. The yoga event is part of a wide range of cultural exchange, tourism, trade, and investment promotion events to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and India, said the consul general. Speaking at the press conference, Sethi affirmed that Vietnam plays an important role in India’s Act East Policy, an effort by the Indian government to cultivate extensive economic and strategic relations with Southeast Asia. India strongly believes in Vietnam’s support, he added. “Both India and Vietnam see mutual respect and trust as the pivot of long-lasting … [Read more...] about Int’l Yoga Day to take place in 22 localities across Vietnam in late June
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Hanoi to ensure food safety for ten million residents
Hanoi will apply many solutions to improve the efficiency of enforcing food safety regulations in 2023 and the future. The Hanoi People's Committee has issued a plan to ensure food security for ten million people in the capital by 2030. The plan, signed by Deputy Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Manh Quyen, aims to strengthen the responsibilities of local governments and socio-political organizations to ensure food safety and security in Hanoi in all circumstances. The plan also aims to promote the resources of all economic sectors and support from the State to develop agriculture in a sustainable way. A farmer introduces a new rice variety in Hanoi’s outskirts. Photo: Lam Nguyen/The Hanoi Times According to the plan, by 2030, Hanoi will have approximately 55,000 hectares of rice production with an annual output of at least 660,000 tons of rice. In addition, the city has set targets to increase food consumption, reduce the rate of … [Read more...] about Hanoi to ensure food safety for ten million residents
Prime Minister issues directive to enhances data sharing for e-commerce development
The directive highlighted that Vietnam's digital economy has witnessed a strong development with the important contribution of e-commerce in recent years. The Government has issued many policies, regulations and drastic measures to improve the efficiency of state management over e-commerce activities, business on digital platforms and tax management. However, the rapid development of the e-commerce market has posed big challenges to the management of e-commerce activities and tax administration, it said. To adapt to the change in the business environment on the digital platform, there must be close coordination between specialized management agencies to control payment transactions and authenticate information of business organizations, individuals and taxpayers. In order to increase the effectiveness and promote digital transformation in the state management of e-commerce activities, trading on digital platforms and cross-border business as well as the sharing of data among … [Read more...] about Prime Minister issues directive to enhances data sharing for e-commerce development
Second home real estate on the slow path to recovery
Hotel supply in Vietnam has tripled over the past decade, photo Le Toan According to a report by DKRA Vietnam, the supply of villas and town houses across the country continued to decrease from the end of the second quarter of 2022. Specifically, in April only two projects were opened for sale, providing 12 apartments to the market, down 69 per cent from the previous month and down 98 per cent compared to the same period last year. Particularly, the Central region recorded the fourth consecutive month that no new projects were introduced to the market. “It is expected that in the next few months, supply and demand may increase slightly. However, the market will not have obvious fluctuations with key transactions, except from expected transactions on Phu Quoc island,” according to DKRA’s report. The primary selling price did not alter greatly compared to the previous month. Instead, investors have aggressively launched discounts up to 30-40 per cent to stimulate market … [Read more...] about Second home real estate on the slow path to recovery
More practical activities to help ethnic people
Thanks to the Party and State’s ethnic policies, over the past years, the living quality of the ethnic groups has been improved. However, the hostile forces always try to divide and destroy the great bloc of national unity and make use of land disputes to cause instability. In order to conduct the ethnic work in the areas, Division 330 has directed its affiliated units to work with the local authorities to grasp local situations. One of the measures that they have taken is gradual mass mobilization work. Therefore, all troops are well aware of the importance of the task. Especially, troops tasked with mass mobilization work have good knowledge of ethnic groups. “This is the core force in implementing mass mobilization work among ethnic groups,” affirmed Political Commissar of Division 330 Colonel Duong Cong Sang. Accordingly, the troops have focused on disseminating information about the guidelines and policies of the Party, State and military on ethnic groups, hostile forces’ … [Read more...] about More practical activities to help ethnic people
Prime Minister issues directive to enhance data sharing for e-commerce development
Illustrative image. (Photo: congthuong.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 31 signed Directive No. 18/CT-TTg on promoting data connection and sharing for e-commerce development, preventing tax loss, and ensuring monetary security. e-commerce activities and supply of cross-border digital products and services. The plan should be finished in the third quarter of this year. The development of electronic payments will facilitate e-commerce (Photo: tapchinganhang.vn) The SBV is to collaborate with the MoF and other agencies in establishing a mechanism for the supervision of payment transactions to support tax administration of cross-border service provision in line with the Law on Tax Administration and related laws. The MoPS is asked to accelerate the integration of the national database on the population with databases and information systems of ministries, agencies and localities for the application of e-identification and … [Read more...] about Prime Minister issues directive to enhance data sharing for e-commerce development