Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

- The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee will convene its 34th session in Hanoi from June 11-13, announced the NA Office.

NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man will deliver an opening remark and share presiding duties with the NA deputy chairpersons throughout the event. Read full story

- President To Lam held a working session with the Standing Board of the Cao Bang provincial Party Committee on June 10, discussing key issues such as national defence-security, judicial reform, foreign affairs, socio-economic development, and Party and political system building.

Acknowledging Cao Bang's strategic importance as a vital gateway to Vietnam's western and northern regions, President Lam highlighted the province's potential for growth along its socio-economic and cultural challenges which require greater unity and dedication from the entire provincial Party Organisation, administrations, officials, army and people to overcome them.Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh reiterated Vietnam’s consistent policy of attaching importance to developing good neighbourliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation and long-term sustainability with Cambodia at a reception in Hanoi on June 10 for Cambodian Minister of Inspection Huot Hak.

PM Chinh expressed his confidence that under the judicious reign of King Norodom Sihamoni, the sound policy of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) led by its President Samdech Techo Hun Sen, and the leadership of the Government with Prime Minister Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet at the helm, Cambodia will continue reaping significant socio-economic achievements, toward the goal of becoming a upper-middle-income country by 2030 and a high-income nation by 2050. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 10 asked for more drastic implementation of the project on developing resident data, electronic identification and authentication applications to serve national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period, with a vision to 2030 (Project 06), and for promoting data connection and sharing to serve e-commerce development and improve tax management, thus bringing concrete and practical benefits to people and businesses.

Addressing an online conference to review the one-year realisation of the PM’s directions in this regard, PM Chinh hailed ministries, sectors and localities’ efforts to remove the bottlenecks in regulation, technological infrastructure, data, security, safety and resources to facilitate the project. Read full story

- Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Luong Cuong received a delegation from the Dominican Republic’s United Left Movement (MIU) Party led by its General Secretary and Minister of Regional Integration Policies of the Dominican Republic Miguel Mejia in Hanoi on June 10.

During the reception, Cuong conveyed the best regards of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to Miguel Mejia and welcomed the positive results achieved in the talks between the Dominican delegation with the high-ranking delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). Read full story

- An aeromedical evacuation training course opened in Hanoi on June 10, aiming to equip a key team from Vietnam's Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 6 with knowledge and skills necessary for successful participation in the United Nations peacekeeping operations.

In his opening speech, Col. Luu Dinh Hien, Commander of the Training Centre of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, said it is the 5th training course of its kind supported by Australia for Vietnam's Level-2 Field Hospital rotations. Read full story

- The gross domestic product (GDP) growth of six ASEAN countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - will recover to 4.5% and 4.7% in 2024 and 2025, respectively, from 4% in 2023, according to Maybank Research Pte Ltd forecast.

In a report 'ASEAN Frontiers: The New Trailblazers', researchers from Maybank said the recovery in GDP growth will be driven by manufacturing and exports, particularly electronics, which are supporting a modest growth recovery in the first half of the year. Read full story

- The Vietnam Report JSC on June 10 unveiled its annual list of Vietnam’s Top 10 Reputable Commercial Banks for 2024.

The honorees include Vietcombank, Techcombank, Vietinbank, BIDV, MBBank, ACB, Agribank, VPBank, HDBank, and TPBank. Read full story

- Coach Kim Sang-sik believes his players can overcome powerful Iraq in the last Group F match of the 2026 World Cup qualification on June 12.

Iraq have already qualified for the next round after their five wins. Vietnam are in third position with only two wins, one point less than second-placed Indonesia. The Philippines are at the bottom and ousted from the campaign./. Read full story