Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong on June 25 held a reception for Vietnam’s Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung, who is on a working visit to Laos from June 25-27.
Up to 123 Chinese vessels on June 25 aggressively approached Vietnamese law enforcement ships to prevent them from getting close to rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 that is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters, reported the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.
Vietnam has picked up two silver medals and two bronze to rank eighth in the medal tally at the 2014 Indonesia Open Karate Championships in Jakarta.
Underprivileged children in the central province of Quang Tri have benefited from a number of projects by a Taiwanese non-governmental organisation over the past 16 years, heard a meeting on June 25.
Many lawyers, scholars and reporters in Sri Lanka have expressed their concerns over the ongoing East Sea tension, sparked by China’s dispatch of its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou - 981 in Vietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone, at a workshop recently held in capital Colombo.
Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to enhance cooperation in military intelligence for peace and stability in the respective country.
The pilot Migrant Resource Centre (MRC), supported by International Organisation for Migration, has become a reliable provider of useful information on overseas labour markets and helped improve legal and safe migration for Vietnamese labourers.
Medical stations in Hanoi have so far provided prenatal and newborn screening services for over 23,600 pregnant women and 11,600 infants in a bid to reduce the rate of children born with congenital defects.
A delegation from the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) made a working visit to Norway from June 19 – 24 to intensify cooperation with its counterpart in the European country.
Vietnam and Algeria have agreed to deepen their sport cooperation following the spirit of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in April 2010.