President Truong Tan Sang hosted warm receptions for newly-appointed ambassadors of Namibia, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and Burkina Faso who came to present their credentials in Hanoi on May 28.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Song Hyun-Seung, President of the Yonhap News Agency from the Republic of Korea, in Hanoi on May 28.
Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and UK Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire discussed over the phone measures to promote the two countries’ strategic partnership on May 28.
The Hoa (ethnic Chinese) community in Ho Chi Minh City has expressed very strong disapproval of China’s illegal act of placing the Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig in Vietnam’s waters.
Many international news agencies and media on May 27 posted articles highlighting a Chinese vessel’s ramming and sinking a Vietnamese fishing boat.
Socio-political organisations have been called on to take greater part in raising public awareness of climate change and rising sea levels.
The Bac Lieu provincial chapter of the Vietnam Buddhist Shangha (VBS) on May 27 organised a ceremony to pray for peace in the East Sea and protest China’s illegal placement of its Haiyang Shiyou-981 drilling rig deep inside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.
Ho Chi Minh City should focus on ensuring stable production and remove difficulties for businesses, including foreign ones, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has said.
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) and the Vietnam Youth Union (VYU) have called on organisations, individuals, political circles and peace-loving people over the world to continue raising their voice to request China to immediately withdraw its oil rig and surrounding ships from Vietnam’s waters.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decision allowing the establishment of a national committee on education and training reform.