The eighth Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee on September 26 discussed and approved the organisation’s Charter and personnel plan for the eighth tenure (2014-2019).
Vietnam wishes to enhance its collaboration with Japan in a bid to develop the two countries’ strategic partnership in a sustainable and long-term manner, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Hiroshi Fukada during a reception in Hanoi on September 26.
Archaeologists have recently made public numerous artefacts they had found during the latest excavation off the Truong Sa, Nam Yet, Phan Vinh and Son Ca islands in central coastal Khanh Hoa province.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will carry out measures to help fishermen access loans and feel financially secure during their time at sea, SBV Governor Nguyen Van Binh declared.
A joint cooperation programme for the 2014-2020 period was signed between the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs and the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on September 25 in Hanoi, aiming to attract foreign investments in ethnic minority-inhabited areas.
Vietnam held its first national preliminary consultation seminar in Can Tho on September 25 to assess the impact of the construction of the Don Sahong hydropower plant on the Mekong River in Laos.
Mu Cang Chai district’s Culture and Tourism Week was launched on September 25 in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, attracting a large number of local residents and tourists.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh delivered remarks on Vietnam’s place in the world order to the Asia Society members on the sideline of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 69) in New York on September 24.
The Government has issued a decree stipulating preferential policies for scientists in a bid to attract more overseas Vietnamese and foreign science and technology researchers to Vietnam.
Hanoi’s tourism sector is taking a wide range of measures, including increasing the number of services on offer, improving the quality of services, and boosting links with other localities in an effort to lure more holiday-makers to the capital.