Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the northeastern province of Quang Ninh to make full use of its advantages to develop industrial and service sectors.
The Vietnam Musicians Association will organise a large-scale music festival focusing on seas and islands on June 8.
The Department of Customs in the southern province of Binh Duong is making every effort to help import-export enterprises affected by recent disturbances normalise their production and business swiftly.
Vietnamese enterprises and their Bulgarian counterparts have inked a number of partnership deals at a recent business forum in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, after a record turnout of 180 attendees found many areas for cooperation.
A “Vietnam Week” is taking place in French province of Seine-Saint-Denis as part of activities to celebrate the 2014 Vietnam Year in France.
Japan will not suspend its official development assistance (ODA)-funded projects in Vietnam, a Vietnamese official has reported.
The President of the France-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group, Pascal Deguilhem, has spoken highly of Vietnam’s efforts in dealing with disputes in the East Sea through peaceful means and dialogue.
A large number of Chinese ships stationed around the Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig, which is illegally placed in Vietnam’s waters, formed groups of up to 40 and aggressively barred Vietnamese law enforcement authority vessels from approaching, reported the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department on June 3.
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) has published documents in Han (Chinese script) and Nom (Vietnamese ideographic script) affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos and its waters in the East Sea.
Journalist Gian Thanh Son will release a photo book featuring the beauty of Vietnamese sea and islands that he has photographed during the last 20 years.