Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City’s People’s Committee Le Thanh Hai requested the Speaker of the Myanmar Assembly of the Union, Thura U Shwe Mann, to support businesses in the city and Myanmar to boost their partnership in the future.
Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Vu Xuan Hong hosted a reception for the President of the Republic of Tatarstan - a federal subject of Russia - R. Minnikhanov, in Hanoi on September 8.
The club of Vietnamese fellow-countrymen in Xiangkhouang, Laos organised an exchange in Vientiane on September 7 with a delegation from the Truong Son Club, including former Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Laos.
Vietnam earned US$1.06 billion from commodity exports to Belgium in the first seven months of 2014, representing a year-on-year surge of 42.87%, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Vietnam saw a trade surplus of nearly US$1.86 billion from exports to Japan in the first eight months of 2014, representing a 40 percent increase over the same period last year.
Officials of the southern province of Dong Thap and Cambodia’s northwest province of BanteayMeanchey met in Dong Thap on September 7 to review cooperation between the two localities in the 2011-2013 period.
A tropical depression is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rains to Hanoi and other northern localities on September 8 night and September 9, according to the National Hydro Meteorological Forecast Centre.
Viettel Television Company, which has the rights to broadcast the UEFA European 2016 qualifying stage in Vietnam, will coordinate with Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV) to exploit the opportunity.
A number of scarlet fever cases suspected of measles have been recorded in the northern provinces of Son La and Hoa Binh, said the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Health Ministry on September 6.
The northern province of Tuyen Quang held a ceremony on September 6 to mark the completion of the restoration of the national historical relic site of the Lao revolution in My Bang commune, Yen Son district.