Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has emphasised the need for Vietnam and China to boost exchanges and cooperation between the two Parties’ agencies, especially in theoretical work, personnel training, Party building and national management. 

Vietnam Airlines’ affiliate in Germany has seen an impressive business performance with 10% and 5% increases in passenger number and revenue, respectively.

Artists from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea brought to the stage Chau Van (spiritual singing) and Saenam Gut performances, their own national intangible cultural heritages, in the northern province of Nam Dinh on December 18.

Designers in Vietnam need to offer more creative products to meet the demands and tastes of foreign markets, participants said at a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 18.

Ha Thi Khiet, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation, extended her best Christmas wishes to the Catholic dignitaries and followers during her visit to the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (North) and the Archdiocese of Hanoi on December 18. 

Over the past four years, Vietnamese and Japanese experts have joined efforts to preserve the UNESCO-recognised Thang Long-Hanoi Citadel while promoting its image to the world under a project financed by the Japanese Fund-in-Trust. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung pressed for more drastic actions to restructure the credit organisations’ system for the 2011-15 period as scheduled when he addressed a conference held by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to launch its 2014 tasks in Hanoi on December 18.

Thua Thien-Hue province’s potential and its policies to attract investment were introduced to Indian businesses at a seminar held in the central locality on December 18.

Ho Chi Minh City hopes to learn from Poland’s experiences in urban management, especially in solving traffic problems, a senior municipal official has said.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport and the Lao Ministry of Public Works and Transport have agreed to intensify cooperation in aviation, maritime, inland waterway and registration.