The country's software giant FPT has set a target of earning revenue of US$130 million this year, a year-on-year increase of 30%.
Two major transport projects linking the southern province of Dong Nai with the country’s southern economic hubs were opened to the public on January 19.
Copies of 54 works by renowned Russian painter Nicholas Roerich have been put on display at an exhibition that opened on January 18 at the Museum of the Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups (MCVE) in northern Thai Nguyen province.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide a loan of US$22.5 million and a grant of US$500,000 to help Vietnam implement a project on sustainable rural development for the poor.
By 2020, 100 percent of the new investment projects in energy-intensive industries, potentially causing serious pollution to the environment, must meet the standards and technical regulations on clean technology.
Vietnam is committed to developing its comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership with China, considering it a top priority in both the short and long term, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Nguyen Van Tho has said.
Vietnam is striving to perfect its laws and policies to foster the rights of disabled people and plans to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2014.
The freshly-concluded ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) Retreat has focused on the association’s priorities for 2014, especially the guarantee of an environment of security, peace, stability and development in the region.
The relations between Vietnam and France as well as Europe since the signing of the 1954 Geneva Agreement on the restoration of peace in Vietnam is the focus of an ongoing international workshop in Paris.
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) held a seminar on wireless network infrastructure in coordination with Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication on January 16 in Hanoi.