(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is accelerating the National Program on Prevention and Reduction of Illegal Child Labor for the 2021-2025 period. On the sidelines of the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor held in Durban, South Africa this month, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder praised Vietnam’s role in the fight against illegal child labor, saying that Vietnam is joining hands and volunteering in a special effort to eliminate illegal child labor.

(VOVWORLD) - The 4th Vietnam Economic Forum, themed “Building an independent and self-reliant economy with extensive integration in the new context”, will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday . Participants will discuss the concept of an independent and self-reliant economy and make recommendations on policies and solutions to strengthen Vietnam’s economic self-reliance.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam will hold a meeting on tobacco harm prevention and the National No Tobacco Week in response to World No Tobacco Day on May 31.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly deputies Tuesday discussed a draft law on implementing democracy at the grassroots level.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization has launched its 2022 global campaign – “Tobacco: Threat to our environment” – for World No Tobacco Day on May 31. The campaign calls on countries to raise public awareness of the harmful effects of tobacco on health, and encourage people not to smoke.

(VOVWORLD) - The HCM Communist Youth Union has launched Summer Voluntary Youth Campaign 2022 with the aim of helping 74 especially poor districts nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a dialogue with farmers nationwide on Sunday to discuss ways to develop a modern agriculture and civilized rural areas. At the meeting, farmers, cooperatives, businesses, and scientists, showed, with their 1,600 questions and proposals to the Prime Minister, their desire to make Vietnamese agriculture a world leader.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Fruit and OCOP (One Commune One Product) Festival 2022 will begin on Saturday in Son La city. Local businesses, cooperatives, and farmers have worked closely to make the event a success.

(VOVWORLD) -S&P Global Ratings on Thursday upgraded Vietnam's long-term sovereign credit rating to BB+ with a 'Stable' outlook on the back of strong economic recovery. It forecast that over the next one or two years, Vietnam’s economy will continue to recover from the pandemic, which will support its external position and contain the fiscal deficit. This projection is consistent with the National Assembly’s assessment of Vietnam’s socio-economic performance in the first months of 2022.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam places the people at the center of all activities, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the 78th session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand. Centering on the people in national economic development is a primary principle of the guidelines of the Communist Party of Vietnam in the current period.