Ha Noi (VNA) -
Current Events
· Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh wrapped up Angola visit: opening up a new stage in Vietnam-Angola relations. Joint Vietnam-Angola communique was issued (All dailies, page 1).
· Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh started a State visit to Mozambique (All dailies, page 1).
· A delegation from the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) attended the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (Nhan dan and Quan doi Nhan dan, page 1).
· Vietnam strives to fulfill Millennium Development Goals (Nhan dan, page 8).
· Vietnam takes part in Cambodia ’s Information Technology and Telecommunications Exhibition (Nhan dan, page 8).
· France : charitable concert held in support of Vietnamese Agent Orange /dioxin victims (Quan doi Nhan dan, page 8).
· The 12th ASEAN Finance Ministers’ Meeting: cooperating in finance in order to realise the ASEAN Economic Community (Saigon Giai phong, page 8).
Socio-economic Affairs
· ORBIS experts provided training for eye doctors in the central region (Nhan dan, page 7).
· As much as 17 trillion VND will be poured in building and upgrading district-level hospitals (Nhan dan, page 1).
· Providing free medical check-ups and medicine for nearly 2,000 Lao people (Quan doi Nhan dan, page 1).
· Two more hydroelectric plants will be built in the northwestern region (Quan doi Nhan dan, page 1).
· Effectively taking measures to curb inflation: Deputy Head of the Vietnam Institute of Economics Tran Dinh Thien said it was essential to take comprehensive measures and to apply the art of guidance and management (Quan doi Nhan dan, page 1).
· Additional 5.1 billion VND will be used to support disadvantaged children (Saigon Giai phong, page 1).
· The Ministry of Planning and Investment: listing projects in need of construction tempo delay (Ha Noi Moi, page 1).
· Construction started for a job-training school for disabled and disadvantaged children in northern Thai Binh province. The AL & Peggy Dematteis Family Fund donated 180,000 USD to the project (Ha Noi Moi and Lao dong, page 7).
International Affairs
· NATO Summit : many important issues are at standstill (Nhan dan and Saigon Giai phong, page 8).
· There exits signs of slowdown in the global economy (Nhan dan, page 8).
· Tension increased in the Korean Peninsula (Nhan dan, page 8).
· The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) rejected a proposal to unilaterally release Ingrid Betancourt (Quan doi Nhan dan, page 8).
· Russia allows NATO’s demilitarised products to be transited via the country to Afghanistan (Quan doi Nhan dan and Ha Noi Moi, page 8).
· Heads of negotiation delegations of the US and the Republic of Korea will meet next week (Ha Noi Moi, page 8).
· Iranian Prime Minister ordered an end to attacks and hunts (Ha Noi Moi, page 8).
· As many as 232,000 US workers lost jobs in the first quarter of this year (Ha Noi Moi, page 8).
· South Asia is likely to recover the global economy (Ha Noi Moi, page 8).-Enditem
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