The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) signed an agreement in Hanoi on October 22 on the Swiss Government’s commitment of non-refundable aid worth CHF5 million for a project on improving Vietnam’s trade and export promotion policy.
The Government is going to issue a resolution on some policies supporting women and children with difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 60 poorest families of Vietnamese-Cambodians in Preah Sihanouk province on October 11 received relief aid, worth some US$20 each.
The Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labour announced on October 7 that it has spent over VND1.39 trillion (US$60.4 million) as relief aid for 2.4 million trade union members, workers, civil servants, labourers and their children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the city.
Minister Counsellor Nguyen Phuong Tra, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations, on October 4 expressed her concern over difficulties and uncertainties in Haiti.
VOV.VN - Municipal authorities have decided to proceed with the removal of 28 administrative procedures in the field of investment.
VOV.VN - The National Assembly Standing Committee has permitted the Government to use VND30 trillion from the Unemployment Insurance Fund in order to support employees affected by the prolonged impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
VOV.VN - The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) on September 23 received the token of US$300,000 in aid from the Sultanate of Oman to support a number of flood-hit central provinces of Vietnam.
VOV.VN - The Italian Government on September 21 announced its decision to offer a further 796,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Vietnam via the Covax global facility to help the nation respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
VOV.VN - Over 7.3 million underprivileged people in Ho Chi Minh City, regardless of their residence, will receive VND1 million each as part of the city’s third aid package to be implemented to support needy people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.