Sunday, April 04, 2021, 18:30 GMT+7
Vietnam s Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung (L) claps during a ceremony to receive a Politburo decision to appoint him as chief of the Hanoi Party Committee in the capital on April 3, 2021. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre
Vietnam’s Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung has been named chief of the Hanoi Party Committee this week, taking over from his predecessor Vuong Dinh Hue, who had been elected as chairman of the legislature.
Dung received a Politburo decision to appoint him to the post from Vo Van Thuong, a top Party official, in Hanoi on Saturday.
“I’ll try my best to complete the political missions assigned by the Party, state, and capital’s people,” Dung said during the handover ceremony.
Friday, March 05, 2021, 16:31 GMT+7
Do Thang Hai, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, speaks during a regular government press meeting on March 2, 2021. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre
Leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Public Security as well as the State Bank of Vietnam have concurred that operations of foreign exchange (forex) platforms are illegitimate, while cryptocurrencies are not methods of payment compliant with law in the nation.
The statements were made during a regular government press meeting on Tuesday.
According to Dao Minh Tu, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, foreign currency trading and derivative services can only be provided by licensed credit institutions and commercial banks.
Tuesday, February 02, 2021, 16:54 GMT+7
A student stays inside Xuan Phuong Elementary School in Hanoi for quarantine after one of his schoolmates tested positive for COVID-19, January 31, 2021. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre
Nearly 80 students and teachers of Xuan Phuong Elementary School in Hanoi were sent to quarantine at the cordoned campus on Sunday after a third grader tested positive for the COVID-19 pathogen on Saturday.
Khong Minh Tuan, deputy director of the Hanoi Center for Disease Control, told
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Sunday morning that 79 people at Xuan Phuong Elementary School in Nam Tu Liem District had been quarantined inside the school premises.
Friday, December 11, 2020, 20:03 GMT+7
Participants stop at a pho stall at the gala dinner of this year’s ‘Day of Pho’ event in Hanoi, December 10, 2020. Photo: Nam Tran / Tuoi Tre
A gala dinner titled ‘The Story of
Pho’ was organized in Hanoi on Thursday evening within the framework of this year’s ‘Day of
Pho’ event, attended by diplomats from the U.S., France, Japan, South Africa, Argentina, and some Southeast Asian nations.
Held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, the event attracted nearly 100 people including many diplomats, politicians, and representatives of international organizations and foreign news agencies.