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Vung Tau city in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province (Photo courtesy of the provincial People’s Committee) HCM City (VNA) - The southern coastal province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau has asked the Government to allocate capital from the central budget to speed up progress of national key projects in the province over the next five years. Of the 16 major public-invested projects , three of the most important projects are the Bien Hoa – Vung Tau expressway , Phuoc An Bridge and 991B Road, according to the provincial People’s Committee. Nguyen Van Tho, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said the three national key projects would connect the southern key economic region with the Cai Mep – Thi Vai deep water port, a key port in the region. “The port system can receive large container vessels of up to 200,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT) and is capable of international goods transport, which allows direct export to the EU and the US without transshipment, reducing logistics costs and improving the competitiveness of Vietnamese goods,” he said. The expressway, connecting Bien Hoa City in Dong Nai and Ba Ria City in Ba Ria - Vung Tau, is expected to be completed and opened to traffic by 2025. The province said it had asked the PM to approve the pre-feasibility study for the first phase of the project, which will be implemented under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) investment model. To build the expressway, around 34.2km of the road will be built in Dong Nai and 19.5km in Ba Ria-Vung Tau. The project requires an estimated investment of 23.07 trillion VND (995.5 million USD), according to the provincial People’s Committee. The province proposed that 9.95 trillion VND should be sourced from the State budget to fund site clearance and construction of the section in the province, and that 13.125 trillion VND should come from the private sector. The developer of the project will mobilise the remainder from its own budget and bank loans. To recover …

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Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A workshop on opportunities, challenges and solutions to promote the participation of people with disabilities in politics was held in Hanoi on April 15. Co-organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam and the Centre for Education Promotion and Empowerment of Women ( CEPEW ), the event aimed at enhancing the right to political engagement of people with disabilities in Vietnam where is home to more than 6 million disabled persons. Speaking at the workshop, Diana Torres , UNDP Assistant Resident Representative in Vietnam, said there will be a political gap between non-disabled and disabled people unless the community joins hands to promote equality and empower people with disabilities on political platforms. Without their voices in agencies under the National Assembly and People’s Councils, the people with disabilities will find it difficult to really integrate into society, she added. Le Ngoc Hoan, a member of the Blind Association of Lang Son province, who is a self-nominated candidate for the election of deputies to the 15th  National Assembly, said people with disabilities need representative voices in the law-making body so that their legitimate aspirations and needs will be heard. According to a quick assessment of the group’s readiness for political involvement as candidates in the elections of deputies to the National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils, 92 percent of people surveyed hoped to have disabled deputies and 63 percent said they are ready for self-nomination to the elections in the next five years. The assessment, jointly conducted by the UNDP Vietnam and the Norwegian Embassy in Vietnam, was released as part of the workshop. It showed three challenges facing the group in elections – feeling unconfident in the possibility of success, lacking knowledge on self-nomination and campaigning, and distrusting that the community will vote for people …

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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (centre) speaks at the Government meeting on April 15 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a Government meeting on April 15 to launch tasks for the time ahead. This is the first Government meeting since new Cabinet members were elected at the 11th session of the 14th National Assembly earlier this month. During the day-long event, participants are discussing the Government’s action plan to implement the resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the Government’s working regulations, the disbursement of public investment, the COVID-19 prevention and control, and the COVID-19 vaccination. The preparations for the elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils for 2021-2026, along with the organisation of the national high school examinations, are also under consideration./. VNA …

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