Hanoi (VNA) -
Current events
· Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung chaired a live-televised teleconference on socio-economic issues with leaders from eight localities: focusing on removing difficulties to step up food production (All dailies, p1).
· Vietnam ’s reunification anniversary of April 30 marked in Cuba (Nhan dan, p8).
· Southern provinces and cities: rice prices skyrocketed due to speculation (Quan doi Nhan dan and Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· Ho Chi Minh City is ready for the Olympic torch relay (Nhan dan, p8).
· Strictly measures to prevent and curb illegal exploitation and trade of coal in northern Quang Ninh province (All dailies, p1). Illegal exploitation and trade of coal in Quang Ninh have spread on large-scale since late 2007.
· Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung instructs tightened control over foreign indirect investment sources (Sunday Saigon Giai phong, p1). The establishment of wholly foreign-invested investment fund management companies to be allowed.
· Truong Sa archipelago celebrates its 33rd anniversary of liberation (Sunday Quan doi Nhan dan, p1).
· Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s “Khuong Viet” Review was made public (Sunday Nhan dan and Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· Genting city opens to Vietnamese culture (Sunday Ha Noi Moi, p1). A cultural week entitled “Charming Vietnam Weeks” will be held in the Malaysian city from April 18 to May 4.
Socio-economic Affairs
· Sao Khue Award Ceremony 2008 in the field of software industry held in Hanoi on April 27 (Nhan dan, p1)
· Satellite VINASAT 1 reached orbit at 131 degrees east (Nhan dan, p1).
· Recruitment of foreign workers increased by 67 percent (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· Third-birth rate increased mainly among State employees and well-off families (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· Hotels Sofitel Metropole Hanoi and Sofitel Plaza Hanoi granted 30 million VND to children living with HIV/AIDS in the capital city (Ha Noi Moi, p3).
· 10,000 billion VND paid out as subsidy for petroleum businesses (Lao dong, p1).
· Control of rice exports will be conducted monthly (Lao dong, p3).
· State Bank resumed the provision of capital to support banks’ payment capacity (Lao dong, Monetary page).
· Vinaconex Cam Pha cement plant inaugurated (Ha Noi Moi, p1)
· 70,000 poor households in Hanoi were provided with loans (Ha Noi Moi, p1).
· Work started on the Pearl Phuong Nam Towers – an office building with an investment of 1,400 billion VND (Ha Noi Moi, p1).
· A steel plant with a designed annual capacity of 1 million tonnes will be built (Nhan dan, p1).
· Vietnamese eloquence contest held for Japanese expats (Nhan dan, p8).
· Ho Chi Minh City effectively uses ODA capital provided by Japan (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· Blue ear epidemic in pigs showed signs of waning (Quan doi Nhan dan, p1).
· Carnival Ha Long 2008 tourism festival kicks off (Sunday Nhan dan, p1).
· Nearly 2.8 trillion VND earmarked for urgent projects in 2008 (Sunday Nhan dan, p1).
· Southern Dong Nai province drew 11.6 billion USD in FDI (Sunday Nhan dan, p7).
· Winter-spring crop’s output in the Central and the Central Highlands regions dropped more than 100,000 tonnes (Sunday Nhan dan, p1).
· Supplies of newsprint drop strongly (Sunday Nhan dan, p2).
· April sees lower increase in Consumer Price Index than March (Sunday Nhan dan, p8).
· Four-month export revenue up 27.6 percent in comparison with the same period of last year (Sunday Quan doi Nhan dan, p1).
· Ho Chi Minh City-based processing-exporting and industrial zones enjoyed a year-on-year increase of eight folds in investment attraction (Sunday Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· All rivers flow to the sea (Sunday Saigon Giai phong, p1). More and more overseas Vietnamese singers came back to the homeland for performance.
· Australia plans to recruit Vietnamese nurses (Sunday Saigon Giai phong, p8).
International Affairs
· Afghanistan President H. Karzai survived an assassination (All dailies, p8).
· Turkish troops attacked PKK forces (Nhan dan, p8).
· Workers at a UK oil refinery factory went on strikes (Saigon Giai phong, p8). Risks of oil price hikes.
· Malaysian Prime Minister is under pressure to resign (Saigon Giai phong, p8).
· Thailand will not reduce rice exports (Ha Noi Moi and Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· Syria is willing to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (Sunday Nhan dan, p8).
· President H. Karzai criticised the US and the UK for their control of the war in Afghanistan (Sunday Nhan dan, p8).
· The US implements a package of solutions to stimulate the economy (Sunday Nhan dan, p8).
· Latin America seeks ways to cope with food crisis (Sunday Nhan dan, p8).
· The US , the UK and Interpol warned risks of terrorist attacks in China (Sunday Ha Noi Moi, p8).
· Turkey staged air attacks onto northern Iraq (Sunday Ha Noi Moi, p8).
· The US announced the third encounter with Iranian ships (Sunday Ha Noi Moi, p8).-Enditem
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