VOV.VN - Chairman of Japan’s Daiyu Steel Co. Ltd Sakuo Inoue has pledged to donate JPY1 million (US$8,940) to Vietnam’s national COVID-19 vaccine fund.
Responding to the call from Vietnamese Party and State leaders, overseas Vietnamese around the world as well as international friends and organisations have given valuable moral, material and brainpower support to COVID-19 fight in Vietnam, particularly to the country's goal of vaccine coverage.
The Association of Vietnamese in Fukuoka (AVF), Japan, has held its second congress and elected a new executive committee for the 2021-2023 term.
VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc held a meeting with members of the overseas Vietnamese community in the United States on September 22 (local time) to gain a better understanding of their aspirations, as well as to listen to their ideas relating to development issues in the homeland.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee in Hanoi on September 17 received more than VND182 billion (nearly US$8 million) in cash and kind donated by localities, enterprises and individuals to support the capital city’s COVID-19 fight.
Finance Minister Ho Duc Phoc has affirmed that the State budget is enough for expenditures planned by the National Assembly (NA) and the Prime Minister.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai on September 17 signed a decision on expense to buy nearly 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine BNT162 by Pfizer.
The Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka city, in the Japanese prefecture of the same name, raised a total of JPY7.65 million (US$69,600) from August 21 to September 15, in support of Vietnam’s national COVID-19 vaccine fund.
The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) reported that its pre-tax profit in the first eight months of the year surpassed the set plan by 177% and tripled the figure for the same period last year, reaching VND30.2 trillion (US$1.32 billion).
The Vietnamese Consulate General in Japan’s Fukuoka raised JPY776,000 (US$7,066) for Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund at a virtual fundraising event held on August 21.