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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam welcomes positive political, security & socio-economic progress in Central Asia despite COVID-19 challenges and hopes the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) will maintain its effective activities in the region, according to Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. at the Vietnamese mission to the UN. Addressing the UN Security Council’s online meeting on UNRCCA operations on January 27, Anh expressed support for and appreciated the work of the centre and its head Natalia Gherman, describing the centre as the UN’s role model in promoting preventive diplomacy in the region. Natalia, who is Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Central Asia, reported to the meeting on the centre’s main activities since the council’s session in July 2020. Specifically, the UNRCCA focused on supporting Central Asian countries in boosting political progress, … [Read more...] about Vietnam appreciates UN Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia’s operations

Fourteen-day rolling averages of new daily figures were calculated for confirmed cases, confirmed cases per million people, confirmed deaths, confirmed deaths per million people, confirmed cases as a proportion of tests, and tests per thousand people, the Lowy Institute said. … [Read more...] about New Zealand, Vietnam top COVID performance ranking; U.S., UK languish

The ECB did not name the nine banks in its annual review of lenders on its watch but a chart in the report showed four of them barely met their requirements even after taking into account the pandemic-relief measures. … [Read more...] about Nine euro zone banks eat into capital buffers during pandemic: ECB

Prices were frozen throughout 2020 except for a spike in June, which was caused by three consecutive increases in gasoline prices after a series of declines since the Lunar New Year, as well as the rise in pork prices in the first days of June, with transportation climbing the strongest with 6.05 per cent. … [Read more...] about Forestalling impending deflation risk

She had come into contact with a woman who left Vietnam for Japan on January 17. That woman tested positive in Japan on Tuesday for the new variant, which has raged in the UK and been confirmed to be 70 percent more transmissible than the old one. … [Read more...] about Social distancing reinstated in Vietnam’s Hai Duong Province after COVID-19 cluster detection