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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) stipulates that players cannot be quarantined for more than four days when they visit a country for a match, but in Vietnam the requirement is 14 days. Saigon had expressed a desire to play host, but that honors falls on Singaporean club Lion City Sailors, who have met all the AFC’s requirements. Besides Saigon and Lion City Sailors, Group H also consists of Malaysian club Kedah and a qualifier. The games will be played from June 22 to 28. This is Saigon’s maiden appearance in the event -- they qualified by finishing third in the V. League last year -- but, with weaker opponents in the group, are expected to sail through to the next round. The host of group G, in which Hanoi FC take on Indonesia’s Bali United, Cambodia's Boeung Ket and the play-off winner, has yet to be decided. This is Hanoi’s fifth appearance in the AFC Cup. They finished second in the V. League and won the National Cup last year. Vietnam’s representative in the top-flight AFC Champions League, Viettel FC, will play their group matches in Bangkok from April 21 to May 7. This year, the AFC Cup group stage has been expanded by three teams to 39 with a new Central Asia Zone group. The first and second placed teams in each group will advance to the next round. The champions will be awarded a spot in the preliminary stage of 2022 AFC Champions League. …

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For over 30 years of Doi Moi, ensuring and promoting human rights has made great achievements, which are important for the cause of building socialism and protecting the country. For over 30 years of Doi Moi, ensuring and promoting human rights has made great achievements, which are important for the cause of building socialism and protecting the country. The consistent viewpoints of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the State of Vietnam on ensuring and promoting human rights have been deeply understood and implemented thoroughly by the Party Committees and administrations at all levels, creating fundamental and positive changes in the entire political system. The documents of the XII CPV Congress defines: Exercising human rights, basic rights and obligations of citizens in the spirit of the 2013 Constitution; attaching rights with responsibilities, obligations, upholding social morality. The Party and the State have mechanisms and policies to protect and ensure the good implementation of human rights and citizens' rights, in the direction of: attaching importance to the care of happiness of comprehensive development of people, protecting and ensuring legitimate rights and interests of the people, respecting and implementing international human rights treaties on human rights that Vietnam has signed. Recently, the Conclusion of the Secretariat of the XII Party Central Committee on the continued implementation of Directive No. 44-CT/TW, dated July 20, 2010 of the Secretariat of the X Party Central Committee on human rights tasks in the new situation clearly stated: Institutionalizing the Party's line, the legal system has been gradually improved, especially the National Assembly passed the 2013 Constitution, which creates a solid legal basis for the protection and enforcement of human rights and for prevention and handling of violations of human rights. At present, the impact of the socialist-oriented market economy and international …

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Vietnam racks up $1.29 billion in trade surplus in two months The country’s trade turnover during January-February topped some 95.81 billion USD, a year-on-year surge of 25.4 percent. Vietnam’s trade balance posted positive, 1.29 billion USD, in the first two months of the year, the General Department of Customs said on December 28. The country’s trade turnover during January-February topped some 95.81 billion USD, a year-on-year surge of 25.4 percent. Of the total, exports amounted to 48.55 billion USD, a yearly hike of 23.2 percent, while imports were estimated at 47.26 billion USD, or 25.9 percent higher than the same time last year. Foreign-invested companies accounted for 76.4 percent, or 37.07 billion USD, of Vietnam’s total export turnover. Meanwhile, the domestic sector shipped abroad 11.48 billion USD worth of products. There were nine commodities joining the billion-USD export club, including telephones and parts (9.3 billion USD, up 22.8 percent year-on-year); electronics, computers and parts (6.9 billion USD, up 27.3 percent); equipment, machines and parts (5.5 billion USD, up 72.6 percent); footwear (3.2 billion USD, up 15.4 percent); and wood and wooden products (2.4 billion USD, up 51 percent). They made up 73 percent of the country’s export turnover. The US was Vietnam’s biggest importer as it splashed out 14.2 billion USD on Vietnamese products, or 38.2 percent higher than the amount it spent the same time last year. China came second with 8.5 billion USD, followed by the EU with 6.3 billion USD, ASEAN 4.2 billion USD, the Republic of Korea 3.4 billion USD, and Japan 3.2 billion USD. Meanwhile, the country spent big (47.26 billion USD) on imports, with foreign-invested sector purchasing 31.64 billion USD worth of products from abroad for production, up 31.4 percent, while that of the domestic sector surged 16 percent to 15.62 billion USD. In the two-month period, China was the largest exporter of Vietnam, with revenue …

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