Hanoi (VNA) - The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has ordered the tightening of border control to prevent any illegal entry. Representatives from the Ministries of Health, National Defence, and Public Security told a meeting of the committee in Hanoi on January 21 that the repatriation of overseas Vietnamese should be based on assessment of domestic quarantine capacity, especially given the appearance of new coronavirus variants. Vietnamese abroad should be encouraged to follow COVID-19 prevention and control regulations in their host countries, they said, stressing the need to ensure absolute safety on repatriation flights. Regarding vaccine research, production, and distribution, the Ministry of Health will actively partner with other ministries and agencies to complete relevant mechanisms and push ahead with vaccine trials. The Ministries of Education and Training, Industry and Trade, and Transport were asked to report on COVID-19 prevention … [Read more...] about Committee orders tightened border control to prevent illegal entry
Reporting on internal financial controls
Việt Nam to tighten border controls to prevent spread of COVID-19
Chairing a meeting of National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam asked localities to strengthen disease prevention and control measures and strictly inspect said measures ahead of and during the Tết (Lunar New Year) celebrations. … [Read more...] about Việt Nam to tighten border controls to prevent spread of COVID-19
Investing in innovation to aid growth potential
With both an advisory and financial background, how will you leverage your experience to help Techcombank’s operations, especially the bank’s DNA of being customer-centric? There are techniques to get to a much deeper customer understanding than just having an individual fill out a survey. If you do ethnographic research, you will actually accompany a customer for a day, observe what he/she is doing, what kind of financial transactions they are doing, and how complicated life can be for a customer to do his or her daily banking. I think we need to get to that level of customer understanding. So I hope that I can encourage everyone to be more questioning on how we are truly helping our customers and not think they know everything. … [Read more...] about Investing in innovation to aid growth potential
Stable structure for state budget
Stable structure for state budget ( source: freepik.com) Rough estimates from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) showed that last year, total state budget revenues hit over VND1.507 quadrillion ($65.52 billion), up by nearly VND184 trillion ($8 billion) as compared to the sum earlier reported to the National Assembly (NA), which determines the nation’s state budget plan annually, and remained lower than the sum of over VND1.54 quadrillion ($66.95 billion) in 2019. … [Read more...] about Stable structure for state budget
Vietnam a global bright spot in electronics production
"Vietnam, not being embroiled in trade disputes with major economies such as the U.S. or Europe, also positions it favourably for exporters seeking to use it as an exports manufacturing hub or in some cases, another manufacturing hub in addition to their Chinese operations so as to diversify their supply chains." … [Read more...] about Vietnam a global bright spot in electronics production