Nineteen teams from 18 countries and territories will compete in the 2013 Asia-Pacific robot contest, announced the organizing board on August 15.
Business players from home and abroad converged at the 2013 Shape the World conference in Ho Chi Minh City on August 15 to consider how to promote Vietnamese trademarks to the world.
A wide range of activities will be organised to mark the 110th anniversary of the popular resort town of Sapa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on November 1-2.
Spectacular photos of nature and life in the Canadian Arctic will be displayed at an exhibition in Hanoi on August 21, which is expected to bring the far-flung North Pole closer to Vietnamese people.
The National Assembly Standing Committee has approved a proposal regarding the Government’s issuance of a decree regulating horse and dog racing and international football betting that looks to formally legalise the business.
Violin students Tran My Dung and Nguyen Duc Hung from the Vietnam National Academy of Music have recently won first and second prizes at the fifth ASEAN International Concerto Competition in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The wider deployment of methadone maintenance therapy to treat heroin dependence in the country was discussed at a conference in central Danang city on August 14.
The Appeal Court of the Supreme People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on August 14 commuted the prison sentence for a defendant convicted of “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) and the Vietnam-Iran Friendship Association organized a meeting in Hanoi on August 14 to mark the 40th anniversary of Vietnam-Iran diplomatic ties.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will continue supporting the establishment of a rice seed production hub in central Danang City.