Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the content of a project funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on assisting the Ministry of Health in implementing the National Strategy on Public Health Care.
Vietnam has placed in Group B of the Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, which begins on July 17 in Chinese Taipei.
China on July 7 used up to 110 ships of various types, including four military ships to defend the oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981, which is standing illegally in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, and prevent Vietnamese law enforcement ships from operating in their national waters.
Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc on July 7 suggested cooperation with Japan’s Kagoshima city in services, tourism and farm produce trading at a reception for Kagoshima Mayor Hiroyuki Mori.
Polish scholars attending a seminar at the Almamer University, Warsaw, affirmed Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos and decried China’s recent acts in Vietnam’s waters.
Vietnam stands ready to assist Laos in training inspectors, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told visiting Lao President of the Government Inspection Authority Bounthong Chitmani in Hanoi on July 7.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front Party of Nicaragua (FSLN) expects to reinforce cooperation at both central and local levels with Vietnam, Deputy Secretary of the FSLN’s International Relations Department Carlos Fonseca Teran has said.
A group of Taiwanese doctors, with the support from their colleagues in the southern province of Dong Nai, have provided free medical check-ups and medicines for more than 1,000 poor locals.
On July 6, the Chinese side continued its aggressive acts at the site where its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 is illegally standing in Vietnamese waters to prevent Vietnamese law enforcement ships from approaching the rig.
Ho Chi Minh City plans to vaccinate children aged from one to five years old against Japanese encephalitis from August in the wake of an increase in the prevalence of viral encephalitis in the city and other southern provinces.