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3792 newsVietnam’s rice exports next year will reach 6.5-7 million tonnes, equivalent to its export value in 2013 due to many difficulties in sales, forecasts the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).
Scientists from Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Laos joined together in an workshop held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from December 15-16 to discuss issues related to water supply in urban areas and the effects of water quality on health.
The Hanoi People’s Court on December 16 sentenced to death two former executives of the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) who went on trial on December 12.
The Vietnam-Netherlands Inter-governmental Committee on climate change adaptation and water management has made public a plan to develop Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in a safe and sustainable manner.
A national flagpole facing Hoang Sa (Spratly) Archipelago was inaugurated in Ly Son island district in the central province of Quang Nam during a ceremony on December 16.
Vietnam has consistently attached importance to developing the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China, a Party official has said.
Vietnam’s shrimp exports reached nearly US$2.5 billion in the 10-month period and may top US$3 billion by the end of December.
The Ministers of Justice of Vietnam and Cuba have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the cooperation between the two ministries.
A total of 58 scientific research works by under-graduate students in Ho Chi Minh City have been honoured at the annual Eureka awards – a scientific research contest for students in the city.
A friendship get-together with Cambodian students studying in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on December 15 on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the victory over the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime in Cambodia (January 7, 1979- January 7, 2014).