The Vietnam-Brazil friendship and cooperative ties began in the early 20th century when President Ho Chi Minh set his foot in Rio de Janeiro in 1912 in his journey to seek the way to salvage the nation, according to a Brazilian official.
The capital city of Hanoi witnessed 9,400 enterprises enter the market with the total registered capital of VND97.6 trillion (US$3.84 billion) during January-April, falling 6% in the number of firms and rising 9% in capital as compared to the same time last year, according to the municipal Statistics Office.
VOV.VN - The Paris Court of Appeals has yet to rule on Vietnamese French dioxin victim’s lawsuit against American chemical firms that supplied herbicides to the US army during the war in Vietnam, following a three-and-a-half-hour hearing on May 7.
Vietnam, the first nation to rise to liberation to regain national sovereignty from world powers, was the model for colonial countries to follow, Prof. Daho Djerbal, a historian and lecturer at University of Algiers-Bouzareah, said in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory.
VOV.VN - Participating countries at the dialogue have acknowledged Vietnam's policies, efforts and achievements in ensuring human rights.
Over the past 35 years, the relationship between Vietnam and Brazil has been developing positively in all fields, becoming more substantive and effective with closer political ties and trust, and expanded economic and trade cooperation, stated Vietnamese Ambassador to Brazil Bui Van Nghi.
Vietnamese companies attended the 16th Bangladesh Denim Expo, an international exhibition of ready-made garments which opened on May 6 in Dhaka.
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG-SANTE), in collaboration with the Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point (Vietnam SPS), held a conference disseminating regulations on imports of agricultural products and foods of plant and animal origin into the EU market on May 7.
The Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore has advised Vietnamese manufacturers, exporters, and distributors of household water heaters and commercial refrigerators to take note of the island nation’s new energy-saving regulations for these products, which will be effective next year.
The Dai Viet Lotus Foods JSC in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap exported the first batch of 15 tonnes of frozen lotus roots worth nearly VND1 billion (nearly US$39,360) to Japan on May 7.