Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao on July 8 visited soldiers injured in a military helicopter crash a day earlier, who are under treatment at the Le Huu Trac National Institute of Burns.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council on July 8 opened its 14th working session, with a focus on outlining measures to reach its socio-economic development goals in the remaining months of 2014.
Advanced technologies and effective measures in flood risk and vulnerability management were shared at a regional seminar in Hanoi on July 7-8.
The 2014 MTA Vietnam Show, the largest on manufacturing solutions in the country, got underway in Ho Chi Minh City on July 8, with the participation of many companies from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and the Republic of Korea.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Nguyen Tat Thanh on July 7 wrote an article on the country’s daily Matichon, opposing the wrongful view of Chinese Ambassador to Thailand Ning Fukui on the East Sea published earlier on the same newspaper.
China on July 8 mobilised an electronic reconnaissance plane to oversee the operation of Vietnamese law enforcement ships in the area that China is illegally placing its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou – 981, reported the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.
The increasing complexity of crimes, particularly corruption and drug cases, requires the procuracy sector and the political system as a whole to take more drastic measures to handle, President Truong Tan Sang has said.
State-owned Petrolimex, Vietnam's leading fuel importer and distributor, on July 7 increased the price of 92-octane (92 RON) gasoline by VND410 to VND25,640(US$1.2) per litre, prompted by jumping world oil prices.
Voters in various localities have voiced their strong support for Party and State guidelines on peaceful and amicable settlement of the East Sea disputes with China.
More drastic, efficient measures should be done to better balance Hanoi’s sex ratio at birth and ensure gender equality, said a Health Ministry official.