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Banking industry receives award for aiding renewal
Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday, April 27, awarded the Ho Chi Minh Order, the
second highest distinction of
the State after the Gold Star Order, to Viet Nam’s banking
industry for its 60th anniversary celebrations (May 6, 1951-May 6, 2011).
 | Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung awards the Ho Chi
Minh Order to the Viet Nam banking industry for its 60th anniversary
celebrations. (Photo: VNS) | Dung
said he highly appreciated the great contributions of the banking system to
development during the past 60 years, especially in supporting multi-sector
economic growth in the Doi Moi (renewal) era and controlling inflation. He added
that
the State Bank of Viet Nam had done a good job managing the
monetary system and improving the banking system in line with international
standards. To
achieve the
target of creating an industrialised nation by 2020, Dung told
bankers to complete legal frames for business, develop banking services and
improve foreign exchange management. In the
short term, he told
the State Bank to thoroughly combine monetary policy with fiscal
policy to implement the Government’s six sets of policy measures to restore
macro-economic stability and maintain social security. The
central bank must strictly monitor monetary and forex markets to ensure bank
safety and liquidity, establish credit quality to encourage exports, improve
trade balances and to increase foreign reserves. He said it must also restrict
the use of gold as a payment
tool. Viet
Nam’s banking system has three State-owned banks, two policy banks, 39
joint-stock commercial banks, five joint-venture banks, five foreign banks, 53
branches of foreign banks, and 18 financial companies. Average
credit growth of the system in the past 10 years has been 31 per cent.
Chief
judge chosen for council of the Supreme People’s Court
Tran Van
Co, a judge of the Supreme People’s Court, has been selected as a member of the
Council of Judges of the Supreme People’s Court. The
decision was finalised on the last day of the 39th session of the National
Assembly Standing Committee in the capital city yesterday. At an
official request submitted by the Supreme People’s Court and in accordance with
Clause 2, Article 21 of the Law on the Organisation of the People’s Court, the
numbers of the Court’s Council of Judges will be increased to 17 from the
present 13. Law
makers attending the meeting agreed with the proposal and unanimously selected
Judge Co as one of four additional members with 81.18 per cent of votes in
favour. Co is
the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeal at the Ho Chi Minh City Supreme People’s
Court. He served in the position for 24 years at provincial courts. He has been
appointed to the position as a Judge of the Supreme People’s Court and then the
Chief Judge of the HCM City Court of Appeal. On the
same day, committee members discussed a draft decree on registration and
management of activities by international non-governmental organisations in Viet
Nam.
Assembly election plans well in hand
The
total number of candidates for seats at the 13th National Assembly is 827, said
Minister of Home Affairs Tran Van Tuan at a press briefing yesterday, April 27. Tuan
said localities had already set up election boards to oversee the elections to
the assembly and to the People’s Councils for the 2011-16 term. A total
of 306,454 deputies at all levels, including provincial, district and communal
levels, were nominated for seats at People’s Councils nationwide. Three
consultation reduced this list to 5,965 candidates for the People’s Council at
all levels. Female
make up 34.4 per cent of candidates; young, 20.3 per cent; non-Party members,
14.62 per cent; ethnic minority people, 19.21 per cent, and self-nominated
contestants, 0.41 per cent. To
handle the elections, 91,438 polling stations will be set up across the nation. To
thoroughly prepare for the elections, seven training courses have been held for
members of election boards from April 21 to today.
Russians offer more help, technology for eye surgery
The head
of Russia’s S.N. Fyodorov Eye Micro Surgery Complex promised here yesterday to
transfer more high quality technology and services to Viet Nam’s
ophthalmological industry.
Professor Khristo Takhchidi told President Nguyen Minh Triet on the first day of
a five-day visit this included setting up the Excimer Laser Department to treat
refractive eye disorders at the Viet Nam-Russia Ophthalmology Hospital in Ha Noi
and the transfer of technology for treatment of children’s amblyopia.
The
hospital has provided medical check-ups and treatment for 31,000 patients during
the past two years. “The
Fyodorov Eye Micro-surgery Complex will do its best to supply services based on
high technology,” the Russian ophthalmologist said.
Takhchidi’s visit was welcomed by President Triet as a considerable contribution
to stronger medical relations between the two countries.
Triet
said Russia was a strategic partner and a loyal friend to the Vietnamese people,
highlighting the training of many generations of Vietnamese medical doctors in
that nation. He said
services provided by the Ophthalmology Hospital had benefited thousands of
Vietnamese patients. The
hospital’s humanitarian services had also helped disadvantaged patients
otherwise unable to afford high-quality medical services. The
State leader warmly welcomed the initiative to set up another joint-venture
ophthalmological hospital in HCM City. He also called for joint ventures in
other cities.
Tay Ninh to open more auxiliary border gates
The southwestern province of Tay Ninh has decided to
open three more auxiliary border gates and 10 paths along the boundary of
Cambodia’s Svay Rieng and Kompong Cham provinces.
The aim is to facilitate local residents’ travel and enhance the friendship
between the three provinces.
So far they have to date opened two international border gates on the common
borderline, namely Moc Bai – Ba Vet and Xa Mat – Trapeng Plong, and four main
and 10 auxiliary border gates. Two-way trade through these border gates reaches
almost US$1 billion each year.
Vietnam marks South Africa’s 17th National Day
Vietnam will promote cooperative ties with South
Africa in all fields for the benefit of sustainable cooperation and development
in both countries, said Deputy Foreign Minister Doan Xuan Hung during a
reception in Hanoi on April 27.
Hung said that the Vietnamese people
were delighted at South Africa’s great achievements under the leadership of
President Jacob Zuma and the African National Congress during national
construction and defence, raising the country’s role at international and
regional forums.
He added that the South African Vice President’s visit to Vietnam last October
and the upcoming visit of Vietnamese State Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan to
South Africa are proof of close bilateral relations.
At the reception, South African Ambassador to Vietnam, Ratabatsi Super Moloi
underlined that the National Day marks a milestone in the South African people’s
history of struggle for independence, paving the way for building a democratic
country without racial and sex discrimination.
The diplomat extended thanks to international friends for their support during
the fight to eliminate the apartheid regime, as well as during the current
process of national construction and defence.
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