PM presents Tet gifts to border guards, poor residents in Quang Ninh
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and presented Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to border guards, poor workers and ethnic people in the northern province of Quang Ninh on January 26.
PM Pham Minh Chinh offers New Year wishes to workers in Quang Ninh (Photo: VNA)
Quang Ninh (VNA) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinhvisited and presented Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to border guards, poor workers and ethnicpeople in the northern province of Quang Ninh on January 26.
At Deo Nai Coal JSC, the PM asked the company to continue withmeasures to protect the environment in its operations and improve workers’well-being, firstly ensuring that they will welcome a warm and happy Tet holiday.
Visiting Mong Cai international border gate, he highlighted aneed to foster close and effective collaboration between Vietnamese and Chineseagencies on the basis of sincerity, trust, respect, equality, effective and win-win collaboration, towardsbuilding a borderline of peace, cooperation and friendship.
He took note of the task of stepping up vaccination,facilitating trade with China and promoting exports to the neighbouring country via officialchannels, developing border gate economy and considering the construction of a farmproduce export-import hub and facilitating e-commerce.
The same day, the leader also gave Tet gifts to soldiersat Quang Duc border guard station, ethnic and poor households in Hai Soncommune, Mong Cai city and Quang Duc commune, Hai Ha district.
In the afternoon, he ✃offered incense at a monument to heroicmartyrs at the Po Hen relic site i𓆏n Hai Son commune, Mong Cai city./.
The Department of Tourism of Quang Ninh has completed a draft plan called “Green-lane tourism” to revive the COVID-19-stricken tourism in the northern coastal province.
Close to 200 trucks carrying goods were cleared to cross the border as of 1 pm on January 10, after China’s Guangxi province officially resumed customs clearance at border gates and border crossings in its Dongxing city bordering Mong Cai city of Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province, including bridges Bac Luan 1 and Bac Luan 2, and pontoon bridge Km 3+4.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 26 attended the inauguration of Love Bridge and Ha Long-Cam Pha coastal road (first phase) in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
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Throughout its 80-year history, the VNA has remained at the forefront of information dissemination. It has consistently delivered timely, accurate, and objective reports on both domestic and international events, serving the Party’s leadership, the State’s management, and the public’s demand for official news.
With strong support from local authorities, businesses, organisations, and residents, the province has successfully built or repaired 10,707 homes for disadvantaged households, including war veterans, families of martyrs, ethnic minority people, and low-income residents.
Throughout its resistance against colonialists and imperialists, Vietnam developed a revolutionary press that has served as a benchmark for just and legitimate causes worldwide.
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PM Chinh lauded the press’s historic role in the nation’s fight for independence and its ongoing process of national development, affirming that the Government always highly appreciates the close partnership and steadfast support of press agencies and journalists nationwide.
In recent decades, Vietnam’s mainstream media has become a reliable and persuasive channel for showcasing the nation’s development policies and achievements, especially in economic matters, according to a senior assistant editor at the Times of India.
A hub for sharing best practices, the event aims to forge solutions for financial sustainability, public media contracts, audience engagement, content innovation, and newsroom restructuring. It is also a moment for Vietnam’s media to accelerate its progress and figure out what the “revolutionary press” means in a new era.
From “Thanh nien”, Vietnam’s first revolutionary newspaper founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc (later President Ho Chi Minh) on June 21, 1925, the revolutionary press has remained devoted to its sacred missions -accompanying the nation, serving the Fatherland, and working for the people.
The official launch of Emirates’ Dubai–Da Nang route on June 2 has sparked a “tourism revolution” for Vietnam’s central coastal city. Da Nang is emerging as a top destination for high-end travelers, particularly from the lucrative Middle Eastern market.
Bernama CEO Datin Paduka Nur-ul Afida Kamaludin said VNA has been a consistent and reliable partner in OANA, contributing actively to the regional media landscape through content sharing, coordination, and policy discussions. Their coverage of ASEAN and Indochina issues adds valuable perspectives. Bernama appreciates the collaboration with VNA.
In this era of global integration and digitalisation, the press must adopt modern multimedia models to not only meet increasing information and communication demands but also align with the broader socio-economic development of the country.
A master plan on implementation of recommendations accepted by Vietnam under the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) took effect on June 17.
Running until June 21, the festival brings together more than 80 central and local media organisations, featuring nearly 130 exhibition booths that cover the full spectrum of national life, encompassing economy, politics, culture, society, defence, security, and foreign affairs.
As of June 17, Ca Mau province had achieved its target of supporting the construction and renovation of 4,400 homes, with a total budget of over 235 billion VND (about 9 million USD).
Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA) Le Quoc Minh has called for technology to be leveraged not to replace identity, but to enhance it—allowing Vietnamese journalism to reach both local and global audiences.
In recent years, with strong support from the Party and State, and building on its tradition as a heroic news agency, the VNA has not only actively participated in OANA but also proactively proposed various ideas for cooperation, helping shape a fresh image of effective media collaboration in the digital era, said VNA General Director Vu Viet Trang.
PM Pham Minh Chinh offers New Year wishes to workers in Quang Ninh (Photo: VNA) 
