Nearly 200 Lao students joined their fellow Vietnamese friends at the Phu Dong Sports Festival of the northwestern province of Dien Bien, which opened on February 28.
The Hanoi People’s Committee has approved a project to build a flyover at the Chua Boc-Pham Ngoc Thach intersection, a site prone to traffic jams.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has set a target of US$2.45 billion in export to France for this year in view of gloomy economic conditions, and encouraged businesses to focus on consumer goods tailored to the tastes of French low and middle markets.
Some assessments about Vietnam in the US Department of State’s 2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are based on inaccurate information and do not reflect the real situation in Vietnam.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged ministries, sectors and localities to speed up the restructuring of state-owned enterprises following the approved plan, determined to make clear progress in 2014.
The Biodiversity Conservation Agency (BCA), under the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) has held a training workshop on communication strategies to prevent the progress of invasive species in the country.
Strong evidence has, for the first time, been discovered suggesting that Vietnamese tombs in the central province of Thanh Hoa date from the early to late period of the Da But civilisation (6,500 – 4,700 BC).
Doctors at Ho Chi Minh City's Children Hospital No.1 on February 27 successfully separated two conjoined infants in an operation that lasted an hour and a half.
The northern port city of Hai Phong and Australia’s Northern Territory have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on bilateral trade, economic and education cooperation on the basis of mutual respect and benefits.
Some 1,400 passengers and crew members on board the luxury liner Crystal Serenity arrived at Chan May port in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on February 27.