2020 accomplishments prime Vietnam for 2021 foreign affairs challenges
By Thanh Tam January 10, 2021 | 08:00 am GMT+7
Amid unprecedented difficulties, Vietnam made good ground in 2020 and is well placed to make further foreign relations headway this year, experts say.
Without doubt, 2020 was a year that posed unprecedented challenges worldwide, the Covid-19 pandemic foremost among them.
There were various other unresolved issues including an anti-globalization and free trade trend, increasing protectionism and an undermining of multilateralism.
For Vietnam, in addition to the global challenges, 2020 was a year when it had to shoulder two major international responsibilities – chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2020-2021 term.
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A critically endangered primate species endemic to northern Vietnam is facing threats from limestone mining and is approaching extinction, despite promising efforts at wildlife conservation elsewhere in Vietnam.
The Delacour’s langur, a small black and white monkey that lives in limestone karst forests, is one of many primates in Southeast Asia that has seen its habitat decimated in recent decades due to deforestation for agriculture and infrastructure. Three of the 25 most endangered monkeys in the world have been found only in Vietnam, according to a 2015 report. There are likely less than 300 Delacour’s langurs left in the world, all of them in Vietnam.
2021-01-06 12:36:08 GMT2021-01-06 20:36:08(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HANOI, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Vietnam recorded one new confirmed case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, raising its total tally to 1,505 with 35 deaths, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new case is a 26-year-old Vietnamese woman who recently returned from abroad and was quarantined upon arrival.
The ministry said that 14 more patients have been given the all-clear, raising the number of cured cases in the country to 1,353.
Meanwhile, nearly 19,400 people are being quarantined and monitored, the ministry said.
In a directive issued Tuesday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested local authorities to suspend inbound flights from countries reporting new COVID-19 variants, such as Britain and South Africa.
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Hanoi police process information for residents for the issuance of chip-based ID cards, December 31, 2020. Photo: Danh Trong / Tuoi Tre
Residents of Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem District and Hai Ba Trung District are the first in Vietnam to be eligible to the new chip-based ID cards.
From the early morning of Thursday, people in the two districts have brought the required paperwork and waited for their turn to receive the new ID cards at the Hanoi Police Headquarter on Tran Hung Dao Street.
The police have organized three counters at the main hall to process the massive amount of paperwork and application for the chip-based ID cards on its launching day.