Top officials of the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region on April 7 congratulated and presented gifts to Khmer Buddhist followers in the southern city of Can Tho as their traditional New Year festival, Chol Chnam Thmay.
A get-together was held in Hanoi on April 7 to welcome a delegation from the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) led by President Kenia Serranno Puig.
Ho Chi Minh City authorities have set a target of curbing the rate of people living with HIV to under 1% by 2015 and maintaining this in the following years.
Vietnam’s top internet security firm BKAV will provide cyber security expert training for 100 Cuban officials between 2014 and 2017, in a deal agreed during the March visit to Cuba by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
The northern coastal province of Quang Ninh plans to become an international tourism hub able to compete with foreign hotspots.
Sixty-seven arts troupes from 38 countries and territories across the world will join Vietnamese artists at the 2014 Hue Festival scheduled for April 12-20.
More than 50 works of 40 international and 17 Filipino artists will be displayed at Galleria Duemila, Pasay City, in the Philippines on April 5.
A variety of promotions have been launched for the first period of Golden Tourism Week in the former imperial city of Hue, which runs from March 26 to April 1.
The New Zealand Embassy in Vietnam and the Vnexpress e-newspaper on March 26 launched the “New Zealand - New Horizon” contest, aiming to promote the country’s tourism in Vietnam.
The Denmark-Vietnam Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) and the Danish Embassy in Hanoi launched the third Vietnam Painting Exhibition in the capital on March 25.