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Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (Photo: VNA) Beijing (VNA) – Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong ’s article “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path towards socialism in Vietnam ” affirms the soundness of the path towards socialism of Vietnam, said a Chinese official. In his recent article on Vietnam’s contributions to human civilisation, Han Fangming, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Chairman of Chahar Institute, a well-known think tank of diplomacy and international relations, the article systematically analyses the original ideal and development of socialism in Vietnam from the perspective of its reality. It points to the origins and goals of as well as persistence and firmness in a number of theories of Vietnam’s socialist-oriented market economy and the human-centered development strategy. Han wrote that the …

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Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen (L) and Italian doctors (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A series of online conferences themed “ Overseas Vietnamese join hands in overcoming the pandemic” will be launched on July 31 by a Vietnamese Italian expert team led by Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen. The activity aims to respond to the call by the Party and State leaders for the Vietnamese community’s support to the COVID-19 fight. In the first conference, the experts will share experience with Ho Chi Minh City in deploying family doctor system in Italy for treatment of COVID-19 patients. Speaking to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Italy, Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen said that since the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Government has valued ideas and experience shared by overseas Vietnamese in pandemic prevention and control. She held that Vietnam showed strong performance in pandemic control in 2020 with low numbers of infections and deaths, and high number of …

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Vegetables being loaded into a bus belonging to Bao Yen Construction Services Tourism Co., Ltd. in HCM City last week. Five such buses are being used to distribute vegetables around the city. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - I was surprised to receive a call from an American friend who lives in Singapore, asking about the pandemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam’s current COVID-19 epicentre with a daily record of thousands of cases. He was concerned that the situation could spin “out of control”, comparing it to India or Indonesia. I told my friend that he had called at a good time as I had just read a news story from the Singapore-based The Straits Times, headlined “Vietnam grapples with public frustration over COVID-19 pandemic missteps and transparency”, mentioning the growing unhappiness about the pandemic control measures. The story, I believe, described the situation in a superficial way. I have closely observed the global situation, especially …

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A police officer checks a delivery person in HCM City’s District 3. The city has created a database on delivery workers to ensure travel restrictions are not violated. — Photo thanhnien.vn HCM CITY — To ensure smooth delivery and distribution of essential goods amid the COVID-19 restrictions, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has created a database of delivery staff that can be easily accessed by inspectors and notified the public about businesses that sell essential products. It has apprised district authorities, the police and others about how to identify various people such as shippers working for delivery services and those supplying meals to hospitals, quarantine zones and other facilities, a key factor in combating the pandemic. People delivering for e-commerce companies need to be in uniforms and have a travel permit issued by their employers and employee identity card. Information about the shippers’ vehicles, address and delivery route are easily …

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President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc during his field trip to HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked HCM City to continue to strictly implement the current high level of social distancing measures. During his field trip to the city on Friday he emphasised to city leaders that the first and most important goal at this point is to protect the health and safety of people and to minimise fatalities. The president said the city needed to strictly implement social distancing measures with each family isolating itself from other families, one village from other villages, one commune from other communes, one province from other provinces. The city must proactively and urgently issue cards to allow motorbike drivers, taxi drivers and volunteers to deliver and support food, goods for the people. They should also prioritise vaccinating frontline forces, the president said. He suggested the city should have on-site consulting doctors for …

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Hanoi conducts vaccination against COVID-19 for locals (Photo: VNA) Berlin (VNA) – Germany ’s Jungewelt newspapers has run an article highlighting the mass vaccination campaign that Vietnam’s Hanoi capital is conducting to soon drive back the COVID-19 pandemic. The article said that Hanoi began the mass vaccination against COVID-19 on July 28. In Hoan Kiem district, which is flooded by tourists at normal times, around 4,000 doses per day are now administered at seven vaccination centres. Employees working in key public administration departments at high risk from COVID-19 and workers in industrial areas are the first to be injected. The vaccination campaign runs from July to April next year and benefits 5.1 million people between 18 and 65 years old. At the moment, the vaccines from Astra-Zeneca, Moderna and Sputnik V are mainly administered in Vietnam. The article also mentioned to the fourth wave of the pandemic which hit Vietnam in late April. From around …

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Participants at the event (Photo: VNA) Ottawa (VNA) – Experts from Canada and ASEAN member countries as well as leaders of businesses of both sides gathered at an online conference on July 29 by York University's Centre for Asian Studies to discuss the Canada-ASEAN connectivity , especially in business and education. Participants highlighted the Canada-ASEAN relations in business and education and sought ways to further deepen their collaboration. Rhonda L. Lenton, President of York University reaffirmed commitments to expanding partnership with ASEAN as well as hope to explore new cooperation opportunities. Meanwhile, Vietnamese Ambassador to Canada Pham Cao Phong underlined the high cooperation potential between ASEAN and Canada in various fields. He expressed his hope that connections among leading businesses of both sides will lie not only in trade and supply chains but also in investment, especially in the fields of green energy and climate change-related …

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A French citizen gets vaccinated at FV Hospital (Photo: courtesy of FV hospital ) HCM City (VNA) – FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City is running a vaccination drive targeting 5,000 French citizens and their family members in southern Vietnam, which began on July 29. Vincent Floreani, Consul General of France in HCM City, said: “I am very grateful to the Vietnamese Government for supporting us to be able to implement the vaccination programme for the French community. We also appreciate the organisation of FV Hospital from the phase of registration to vaccination”. Under the drive, 10,000 shots of Moderna vaccine will be given to the group. About 500 people are set to be vaccinated on a daily basis. Jean-Marcel Guillon, Chief Executive Officer of FV Hospital, said the injection procedure is done safely following COVID-19 prevention and control measures, including the city’s current social distancing regulations. Expressing her joy after getting her shot on July 29, …

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Pre-COVID-19 vaccination check-up (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health confirmed additional 4,992 COVID-19 cases in the past nearly 12 hours to 6am on July 30, including five imported patients. The current biggest hotspot of Ho Chi Minh City logged 2,740 new cases, followed by Binh Duong with 1,284 cases, Tien Giang 242, Dong Nai 203, Dong Thap 90, Tay Ninh 88, Ben Tre 79, Khanh Hoa 78, and Hanoi 63. The national tally of COVID-19 patients reached 133,405, including 31,780 recoveries. Among patients under treatment, 346 are being cared for in ICUs, while 19 are being treated with ECMO. Four localities experiencing at least 14 days without new infections are Yen Bai, Dien Bien, Quang Ninh and Bac Kan. The sub-section on treatment of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control announced 159 deaths due to COVID-19 from July 27-29, 132 of which are in HCM City, lifting the country's death toll to 1,022. On July 29, 208,041 doses of …

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Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked health authorities to promptly authorize Nano Covax, a vaccine being developed domestically, to make the first made-in-Vietnam vaccine available soon amid surging COVID-19 cases. The president made the direction during a meeting at Ho Chi Minh City-based Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, which he visited on Thursday to review its production progress. At the meeting, President Phuc emphasized the importance of the compliance with epidemic prevention and control rules and the acceleration of mass vaccination to prevent the rising coronavirus spread. The leader said the Party and State have been proceeding with securing vaccine supplies from abroad while speeding up domestic vaccine research and production, with a vision to ensure proactiveness in inoculation. Administrative procedures should be sped up so that the vaccine can be approved for emergency use soon provided it is safe for people, the president said. The …

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