President Truong Tan Sang on January 7 met 102 outstanding students in Hanoi on the 65th anniversary of the Student Traditional Day and the Vietnamese Student Association.
ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh on January 7 started a working visit to Malaysia, according to a press release by the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Vietnam will send its sport teams to 25 international sport events in the first quarter of 2015, according to the General Department of Sports and Physical Training.
The Central Commission of Health Care for Senior Officials has dismissed rumours surrounding the health of Nguyen Ba Thanh, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs.
The draft political report, which will be submitted to the upcoming 12th National Party Congress, was the focus of the third working day of the 10th plenum of the Party Central Committee on January 7.
The appeal court upheld the life imprisonment sentence for Huynh Thi Huyen Nhu, former deputy chief of the Risk Management Department of the Ho Chi Minh City branch of the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank), on January 7.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the US to adopt a more flexible approach to the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for the agreement’s early signing while receiving new US Ambassador Theodore Osius in Hanoi on January 7.
The Ministry of Health said the number of foreign patients treated by medical facilities in the country surged last year, bringing foreign currency earnings of some US$1 billion.
A workshop was held in the central city of Danang on January 6 to develop a detailed plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Danang Seafood Service Zone, and to create solutions to business development.
The European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project (EU-MUTRAP) on January 6 provided information and technology (IT) equipment to departments and units under three ministries and the National Office of Intellectual Property.