More than 10,700 traffic accidents have occurred nationwide so far this year, killing 3,928 people and injuring 10,556 others.
President Truong Tan Sang has highly valued Japanese investment in Vietnam and asked a Japanese businessperson to call on his fellows to make fact-finding tours of seafood processing facilities in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Phu Yen.
A Vietnamese official has delivered an impassioned speech at the ongoing 67th Assembly of the World Health Organisation (WHO), calling on the organisation and United Nations agencies to intensify their response to climate change.
Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, received a delegation of the Venezuelan Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence in Hanoi on May 22.
A Vietnam Business Insights forum was held by Singaporean broadcaster Chanel NewsAsia in Ho Chi Minh City on May 22 to redefine sustainable business growth for the country.
Police from the southern province of Binh Duong have brought legal proceedings against 259 people allegedly involved in recent disturbance in the locality, according to sources on May 22.
Delegates from Hoa Hao Buddhist chapters nationwide gathered at An Hoa Pagoda in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on May 22 for the sect’s fourth congress for the 2014-2019 term.
The French Agency for Development (AFD) will provide eligible Vietnamese businesses and organisations with EUR113 million in loans and non-refundable aid this year, as part of its non-sovereign package launched in Vietnam for the first time.
Vietnam has affirmed the fundamental principles of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), according to Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc.
Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh chaired a press conference in Manila, the Philippines, on May 22, announcing Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s activities at the World Economic Forum on East Asia, during which foreign correspondents voiced their special attention to the East Sea dispute.