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
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V-pop star joins Garena Free Fire as playable character
Tung released his first single in 2013 at the age of 19 and has since become one of the biggest pop stars in Vietnam. His music is a fusion of traditional Vietnamese music, K-Pop and U.S.-U.K. pop. … [Read more...] about V-pop star joins Garena Free Fire as playable character
Vingroup to launch Vietnam’s first powerful authentication cloud service
On the occasion of product launching, VinCSS is providing a free trial package of VinCSS FIDO2 Public Cloud service to the first 100 corporate customers who register for the experience*. Please contact [email protected] or visit passwordless.vincss.net/fido2cloud for more details and support about VinCSS FIDO2® Cloud service as well as VinCSS FIDO2 Ecosystem. * Trial Package Conditions: Supports up to 20 users and 10 apps for a trial period of 45 days. … [Read more...] about Vingroup to launch Vietnam’s first powerful authentication cloud service
If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved
The Prime Minister has directed local ministries and agencies to take action to make the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development the focus of the socio-economic development strategy in the 2021-2030 period, with specific plans and tasks. The Prime Minister also requested to speed up the process of restructuring and improving economic institutions in the direction of using natural resources more efficiently, saving energy, raising economic competitiveness, renovating technology, adapting to climate change, reducing poverty, ensuring sustainable economic development. … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved
Efforts to empower ethnic minority women
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