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Current events
· Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh met President of the Communist Party of Brazil Renato Rabelo (Dailies, p1).
· President Nguyen Minh Triet received the Beninese State Minister and Special Envoy (Nhan dan, p1).
· Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom to visit Vietnam (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· The 12 th National Assembly’s third working day: the Government presented two bills and a report on the results of the five-year vocational training and job generation programme for former drug addicts (Dailies, p1).
· Vietnam to join global efforts to stabilise rice price (Saigon Giai phong, p8). The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman answered the press about an initiative to establish an organisation of rice export countries.
· The Vietnam-Ukraine Inter-government Committee for Economic, Trade and Scientific Cooperation signed the minute of its ninth meeting (Nhan dan, p8).
Socio-economic Affairs
· Activities to mark European Days in Vietnam (Nhan dan, p8).
· RoK film festival takes place in Hanoi (Nhan dan, p8).
· Military-run mobile phone operator Viettel donated 20,000 USD to Myanmar ’s cyclone victims (Nhan dan, p1).
· Ho Chi Minh City prioritises the implementation of policies for the poor (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· The 2 million USD Vietnam-RoK Peace Village to be built in central Quang Nam province (Saigon Giai phong, p2).
· The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange cooperates with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Saigon Giai phong, p2).
· An additional 400 million USD to be poured into the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park (Saigon Giai phong, p8).
· The 2008 “Businesspeople with charity” Golf Tournament: businesspeople donate close to 120 billion VND (Saigon Giai phong, p9).
· Locally-manufactured cars join the race of price hike (Saigon Giai phong, p4).
· Development in northern key economic region faces 9 major problems that need to be resolved (Hanoi Moi, p1).
· Vietnam to attend the sixth ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for young audience (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· Vietnam to host the final round of the 2008 Women’s Football Championship (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· 500 companies to take part in the International Industry Expo in Hanoi (Hanoi Moi, p4).
· The Central Institute for Economic Management released the 2007 Vietnam economic report, forecasting a 7.2 percent GDP growth rate for 2008 (Hanoi Moi, p1 and Lao dong, p3).
· The Ministry of Industry and Trade to reinforce surveillance over textile and apparel exports to the US (Lao dong, p3).
· The 2008 United Nations Day of Vesak – a big religious-cultural event in Vietnam (Lao dong, p3).
· Sanyo starts construction of a plant producing electronic components in northern Bac Giang province (Lao dong, p3).
· Israel assists Vietnam in training on web security (Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· When golf courses encroach on farming land: farmers’ life turns chaotic (Tuoi tre [Youth], No. 123, p1). Thousands of farmers had to give their years-old farms and gardens to golf course projects. There were 30 golf course projects, which will occupy thousands of hectares of farming land, in 6 provinces and cities.
· Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh: construction of office buildings must be halted (Tuoi tre, No. 123, p3). Experts pointed out ineffective budget expenditure as one of the reasons behind inflation. The paper interviewed the finance minister on the issue on the sideline of the National Assembly’s on-going third session on May 7.
· Will a high special consumption tax be levied on imported cars? (Thoi bao Kinh te Vietnam [Vietnam Economic Time], No. 111, p1). The Finance Ministry is garnering opinions for its revisions to the Special Consumption Law before submitting them to the Government in June this year.
· Vietnam is an attractive investment destination to SCG (Thoi bao Kinh te Vietnam , No. 111, p4). An interview with Dhep Vongvanich , Vietnam SCG Director General.
· Vietnam did not dump textile and apparels (Thoi bao Kinh te Vietnam , No. 111, p8). The Vietnam Textiles and Apparels Association reported that the US Department of Commerce on May 6 announced its second review of garment and apparel imports from Vietnam , saying it had no evidence to automatically initiate a anti-dumping investigation.
· Alert on on-line gold and currency transactions (Thanh nien [Young people], No. 129, p1).
· Preparations for the 2008 Miss Universe are underway (Thanh nien, No. 129, p14). Preparations on facilities the 2008 Miss Universe event, which is hosted by Vietnam for the first time, is being sped up.
International Affairs
· UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemns recent Darfur bombings (Nhan Dan, p8)
· Russian Parliament overwhelmingly confirms Putin as PM (Nhan Dan, p8; Hanoi Moi, p8)
· Lebanon on the brink as violence erupts (Nhan Dan, p8)
· Indonesia ’s Papua landslide death toll rises to 19 (Nhan Dan, p8)
· Russia celebrates victory over Nazism (Saigon Giai phong, p12; Lao Dong, p6)
· Cyclone in Myanmar likely kills 100,000 victims (Lao Dong, p6)
· Venezuela proposes to create oil-for-food fund (Saigon Giai phong, p12)
· China 's hand-foot-mouth infections rise to 20,000 (Saigon Giai phong, p12)
· Cambodia-Thailand find common ground on Preah Vihear issue (Hanoi Moi, p8)
· Thailand kicks start Cobra Gold 2008 military exercises (Hanoi Moi, p8)
· Russia expels two US envoys (Hanoi Moi, p8).- Enditem
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