Military Engineering Commander Pham Quang Xuan has called on leaders from the Russia’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory (CTZ) and Uralvagonzavod machine building company to increase the supply of machines for road construction in Vietnam.
Associations for friendship with Vietnam in various European countries have issued a joint resolution demanding that China respect international law and immediately withdraw its oil rig out of Vietnam’s waters as well as stop all violent actions.
The Vietnam Federation of Civil Engineering Associations has issued a statement strongly protesting against China’s violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty, sovereign right and jurisdiction, and requesting the country to withdraw its oil rig from Vietnam’s waters.
The Nha Trang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd under the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (SBIC) on July 2 delivered a modern steel fishing vessel to a fisherman in the central coastal province of Quang Ngai, under a programme to enhance capacity of the nation’s fishing fleet.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Bulgaria and the Vietnamese Association in the country has raised funds in support of Vietnam’s coast guard and fisheries surveillance forces and fishermen who are day and night safeguarding the national sea and island sovereignty.
Vietnam and the Philippines on July 2 issued a joint press release on the occasion of the visit to Vietnam of Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert F. Del Rosario.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 2 for Philippine Foreign Minister Albert F. del Rosario, who is on a Vietnam visit under an invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held talks with visiting Philippine Minister of Foreign Affairs Albert F. del Rosario in Hanoi on July 2.
Leaders from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July 1 worked with officials from the Republic of Korea to speed up the implementation of a technology nursery which is expected to be operational by 2015 in the city.
Vietnamese cartoonists have expressed their views about the Chinese oil rig illegally deployed in Vietnam's territory in the East Sea.