Police from the southern province of Binh Duong have brought legal proceedings against 259 people allegedly involved in recent disturbance in the locality, according to sources on May 22.
Delegates from Hoa Hao Buddhist chapters nationwide gathered at An Hoa Pagoda in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on May 22 for the sect’s fourth congress for the 2014-2019 term.
The French Agency for Development (AFD) will provide eligible Vietnamese businesses and organisations with EUR113 million in loans and non-refundable aid this year, as part of its non-sovereign package launched in Vietnam for the first time.
Vietnam has affirmed the fundamental principles of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), according to Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc.
Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh chaired a press conference in Manila, the Philippines, on May 22, announcing Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s activities at the World Economic Forum on East Asia, during which foreign correspondents voiced their special attention to the East Sea dispute.
A wide range of activities are taking place in the central province of Quang Nam from May 20-26 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Hoi An Ancient Town being recognised as a World Cultural Heritage site.
A meeting of Norwegian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) took place in the central province of Binh Dinh on May 21, reviewing the implementation of Norwaygian-funded projects in Vietnam.
The container ship Heung-A Dragon, which was submerged off the coast of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province last November, was successfully lifted on May 20.
(VOV) - China’s placement of its drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone is to realise its ambition to control the East Sea and Beijing needs to stop this unilateral act, according to Australian scholars.
About 5 million Vietnamese children aged from 6-36 months across the country’s 63 provinces and cities will receive free vitamin A pills on June 1-2.