Members of the Mexico – Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Group (MVFFG) and Mexican Chamber of Deputies have expressed their support to Vietnam’s legitimate rights and criticised China’s wrongful acts in Vietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has emphasized the need to mobilise all social resources for building new style rural areas besides investment from the State budget.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on May 16 talked on the phone with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, Singaporean FM K. Shanmugam and Russian FM Sergei Lavrov.
The French-Vietnam Friendship Association (FVFA) has expressed its strong protest against China’s illegal act of deploying an oil rig and military ships in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
Students both at home and abroad on May 15 continued raising their voice against China’s illegal act of placing the Haiyang Shiyou-981 drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
The Singapore International Foundation (SIF) has partnered with Ho Chi Minh City’s General Sciences Library (GSL) to begin a “Words on Wheels” (WOW) mobile library programme in primary and secondary schools in the city.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on May 15 launched a project to strengthen livelihoods and resilience to climate change of poor people in the Mekong Delta provinces of Ben Tre and Tra Vinh.
The Vietnamese Embassy in France on May 15 held a ceremony to mark the 124th birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh, which falls on May 19.
The Vietnamese community in Thailand released a statement on May 15 denouncing China’s illegal placement of an oil drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
Ho Chi Minh City will do its utmost to protect the safety and property of foreign investors, the city’s top politician has said.