The Islamic Cham ethnic community in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang are celebrating their traditional Ramadan festival, starting their one month of fasting from June 25.
Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Hayashi Yoshimasa on June 25 visited Saigon Hi-Tech Agriculture Park in Ho Chi Minh City where he shared Japan’s experience in developing high-technology agriculture as well as the application of biotechnology.
A “Vietnam Day” was organised for the first time in Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture on June 25, with the aim of furthering the Vietnam-Japan strategic partnership in the fields of trade, investment and culture.
Hoang Binh Quan, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, hosted a reception in Hanoi on June 25 for a delegation from the Lao Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations.
Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong on June 25 held a reception for Vietnam’s Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung, who is on a working visit to Laos from June 25-27.
Up to 123 Chinese vessels on June 25 aggressively approached Vietnamese law enforcement ships to prevent them from getting close to rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 that is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters, reported the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.
Vietnam has picked up two silver medals and two bronze to rank eighth in the medal tally at the 2014 Indonesia Open Karate Championships in Jakarta.
Underprivileged children in the central province of Quang Tri have benefited from a number of projects by a Taiwanese non-governmental organisation over the past 16 years, heard a meeting on June 25.
Many lawyers, scholars and reporters in Sri Lanka have expressed their concerns over the ongoing East Sea tension, sparked by China’s dispatch of its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou - 981 in Vietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone, at a workshop recently held in capital Colombo.
Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to enhance cooperation in military intelligence for peace and stability in the respective country.