The Vietnamese Embassy in Bulgaria and the Vietnamese Association in the country has raised funds in support of Vietnam’s coast guard and fisheries surveillance forces and fishermen who are day and night safeguarding the national sea and island sovereignty.
Vietnam and the Philippines on July 2 issued a joint press release on the occasion of the visit to Vietnam of Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert F. Del Rosario.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 2 for Philippine Foreign Minister Albert F. del Rosario, who is on a Vietnam visit under an invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held talks with visiting Philippine Minister of Foreign Affairs Albert F. del Rosario in Hanoi on July 2.
Leaders from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July 1 worked with officials from the Republic of Korea to speed up the implementation of a technology nursery which is expected to be operational by 2015 in the city.
Vietnamese cartoonists have expressed their views about the Chinese oil rig illegally deployed in Vietnam's territory in the East Sea.
The southern province of Dong Nai earned US$6.053 billion from exports in the first half of this year, a 15.8 percent rise year-on-year, fulfilling 50.8 percent of its yearly target.
More efforts must be made to efficiently manage and use scarce water resources of the Mekong River as climate change and rapid development to produce electricity have threatened its sustainability.
Final touches have been put on the Tan Nam – Mon Chay bridge, connecting the southwestern province of Tay Ninh and neighbouring Cambodian province of Prey Veng, which is expected to be open to traffic later this month.
According to the Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank Corporation (HSBC), Vietnam’s June manufacturing activity saw improvement despite a slow rate of growth in output and new orders.