The OSP Nadarzyn Orchestra, a brass band propagating Polish culture in the form of music, will present its first performance in Vietnam at the 2014 Hue Festival, themed “Cultural heritage with integration and development” scheduled for April 12-20.

The court sector managed to complete 364,819 out of the total 395,415 cases the national court system received in 2013, a Supreme People’s Court conference heard on January 14.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on January 14 announced that the banking system had disbursed VND758.7 billion (US$35.626 million) of the VND30 trillion housing support package to 1,765 customers as of December 31, 2013.

Japan always attaches importance to its strategic partnership with Vietnam and will continue to support Vietnam in implementing its industrialisation and modernisation.

Media agencies should stand active in information activities and make more contributions to generating a social consensus in both thought and action, meeting the requirements of the national renewal.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s just-concluded visit to Cambodia is a success, contributing to strengthening the fine neighbourliness, mutual trust and support between the two nations, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Phuong Nga told the media in a recent interview in Hanoi. 

Vietnam will host for the first time a congress of the Asian Australian Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology in central Danang city from March 25 to 28.

Lawmakers in Vietnam are considering offering a unilateral visa exemption for foreigners planning to stay in the country for a certain duration of time.

The Party Politburo has issued a directive requiring Party committees and organisations at all levels to strengthen their leadership over the implementation of asset declarations by officials.

A friendly ice hockey match was held in Hanoi on January 13 between Canadian and Vietnamese amateur players as part of the Canada-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Group’s visit to Vietnam.