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Vietnamese Ambassador Le Linh Lan in Switzerland speaks at the launching event. — VNA/VNS Photo The Vietnamese Embassy in Switzerland recently held a ceremony to launch the non-profit Switzerland-Vietnam business group (SVBG), which aims to promote exchanges and investment and trade co-operation between enterprises of the two nations. Based in Lausanne, the SVBG, the first of its kind founded by Vietnamese expatriates in Switzerland, will focus on offering trade information via workshops, forums, and internal bulletins; providing legal consultations and guidance; developing links for technological transfers and improvement; and introducing quality human resources. It will also make recommendations for a more favourable business climate to agencies of both nations while organising socio-cultural activities serving its goals. Speaking at the debut ceremony, Vietnamese Ambassador Le Linh Lan said the group came into being at a special time as Viet Nam has placed the COVID-19 pandemic under control and prepared the best conditions possible to welcome Swiss investors. Lan said the would embassy support the operation of the SVBG. According to the diplomat, Switzerland is the sixth-largest European investor in Viet Nam, with its investment totalling US$2 billion, mostly in manufacturing – processing and electricity. Currently, close to 100 Swiss firms are operating in Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Viet Nam is the fourth-biggest trade partner of Switzerland in ASEAN, with bilateral trade exceeding $3.6 billion in 2019. Since 2012, Viet Nam and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – the intergovernmental organisation of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland – began negotiations for a trade deal which is expected to be signed this year. — VNS …

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Phạm Bình Minh speaks at the Informal Meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers held online yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Phạm Bình Minh has urged all ASEAN members to find a peaceful way to resolve the ongoing violence and political crisis in Myanmar. Speaking at the Informal Meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers held online yesterday, the Deputy PM said: “The increasing violence and tension causing the loss of people's lives in recent days in Myanmar has affected the peace and stability not only of Myanmar but that of the whole region.” He called on all ASEAN member nations to “refrain from causing any types of violence, ensure safety for the people, and facilitate peaceful dialogues that will help the situation to return to normal.” He also asked the member nations to closely coordinate, promote the bloc’s role and effectively use existing cooperation tools and mechanisms – including coordination with global organisations such as the United Nations – to help Myanmar stabilise the situation for the benefit of the Burmese people and the country, as well as for peace and stability of the region, and solidarity and credibility of ASEAN. The discussions come as protesters, many wearing hard hats, began marching in the biggest city Yangon for what they said would be another big demonstration. Several shopping malls have closed because of the unrest. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters in Yangon on Monday and later combed side streets, firing rubber bullets, witnesses said. At least 21 protesters have been killed since the turmoil began. The army said one policeman was killed. The coup on February 1 halted Myanmar's tentative steps towards democracy after nearly 50 years of military rule, and has drawn condemnation and sanctions from the United States and other Western countries, and growing …

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The Hanoitimes - Sending elite health workers to Danang and speeding up testing are among measures to curb the coronavirus outbreak in the famous beach city. Vietnam is making all-out efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak in the beach city of Danang by the end of this month. Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long at a meeting on Aug 14. Photo: VGP The Ministry of Health (MOH) is supporting Danang and the neighboring province of Quang Nam to accelerate sample taking for the community testing, Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said at a meeting on August 14. Over the past weeks, the ministry has deployed several teams of elite medical professionals to Danang while necessary medical equipment has also been sent there. Since the first community infection was detected in Danang on July 25, a group of leading doctors from Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City traveled to Danang to assume responsibility for intensive care unit (ICU), emergency, dialysis, and hemodialysis treatment in Danang and Quang Nam. Among the doctors is Tran Thanh Linh who directly treated Patient No.91, the British man that recovered and was sent to his home country in mid-July. Since then, dozens of health groups from Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Haiphong, Thua Thien-Hue, and Binh Dinh have come to Danang to support the treatment of Covid-19 patients. Notably, a task force of nearly 100 leading health professionals led by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son has been in Danang in the very first days after the detection of local infections. Health workers from Haiphong come to support Danang. Photo: Baohaiphong In a latest move, the MOH has sent some top health professors in Hanoi to support the treatment of acutely-ill patients. So far, nearly 300 elite doctors and health workers have been dispatched to Danang to support the battle against the pandemic in the famous beach city. In addition, Danang has increased the …

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