Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific has announced that it started selling air tickets for the Lunar New Year from September 9, with 136,000 seats to meet travel demand during Vietnam’s most important festival which will come by the end of the next January.
A Vietnam-Japan cultural week has been held by the Hue Medical and Pharmacy University in the former imperial city of Hue to celebrate the 40 years of friendship between Vietnam and Japan.
A five-member team of Vietnam is taking part in Davis Cup 2013, the premier international team event in men’s tennis, in the United Arab Emirates from September 11-15.
Oriental Sails Company will operate a five-star cruiser on Ha Long bay from September 15.
The 14th “Prudential - Good Essay, Good Writing” contest was launched in Can Tho city in the Mekong Delta on September 10.
Vietnam’s Government Inspectorate, in conjunction with the US Embassy in Vietnam, held a seminar on September 10 to share anti-corruption experience.
Singapore is set to demonstrate its faith in Vietnam’s long-term future with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong due to officiate the ground-breaking of the fifth Vietnam - Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in Quang Ngai province on September 13, according to The Straits Times.
The Global Civic Sharing (GCS) organisation and the Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd (SLI) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will provide computers worth over US$1.3 million for 40 secondary schools in Hanoi and its nearby provinces in a five-year period.
Ho Chi Minh City is a symbol of not only the spectacular development of Vietnam but also the sound economic cooperation between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK), President Park Geun-hye has said.
President Truong Tan Sang has said that cooperation and experience sharing between the judicial sectors of Vietnam and Cuba is crucial and significant.