President Truong Tan Sang on April 3 inspected the progress of the Vietnam-Japan University project in the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park in the west of Hanoi.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Pakistan is now working with the host country’s relevant agencies to complete consular procedures to bring home a Vietnamese citizen who has been detained in the country for his illegal entry.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has authorised the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to sign a dossier seeking UNESCO recognition for the Mother Goddess worship as intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
Vietnam has so far received recognition of its market economy from 45 countries across the world, with Oman being the latest, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
On April 2, 29 people appeared before the People's Court of the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien charged with conducting banditry in Muong Nhe district, in accordance with Article 83 of the Penal Code.
The Foreign Ministry and the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam held a conference on April 2 in Hanoi to announce the results of the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights in the second cycle.
Despite a sharp growth in tuna exports in recent years, experts asserted that yet more effective measures should be applied to promote the sustainable development of tuna fishing and processing.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Justice Partnership Programme on April 2 launched the Vietnamese version of a book expected to aid Vietnam’s judicial reform.
The northern province of BacNinh granted investment licences to 32 new projects worth nearly US$200 million in total registered capital in the first quarter of this year, fulfilling 64 percent of the yearly target.
A repatriation ceremony for remains of US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam was held at the Danang International Airport in the central city of Da Nang on April 2.