Nearly 12,000 Vietnamese children with congenital heart diseases received financial support for surgery as of November this year since a programme to call for donation to this group was launched in 2002.
As many as 48 poor students with outstanding academic achievements at Hue University have received scholarships from Japanese organisations.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the northern port city of Haiphong to combine industrial development with restructuring, prioritising high-tech and higher value-added products and exports.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has reaffirmed the State and Party’s consistent policy of protecting and promoting human rights to better ensure the people’s civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
Vietnam’s women’s team beat their Thai rivals in the final match 35-27 to retain their title at the 2013 Southeast Asia Handball Championships, which took place from December 2-10 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Vietnam's field hockey team will compete at the 27th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 27) for the first time during this week's first international tournament.
A Vietnamese delegation with 85 outstanding young people is attending the 18th World Festival of Youth and Students, which opened in Quito, Ecuador, on December 7.
The Hanoi Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Joint Stock Corporation (Habeco) on December 8 inaugurated its brewery factory in Song Tra industrial zone in the northern province of Thai Binh.
The similarities in the national construction plans between Bolivia and Vietnam are the basis for the two countries to further strengthen cooperation in such fields as oil and gas and agriculture, Bolivian President Evo Morales has said.
Vietnam wants to broaden its sporting collaboration with other nations and views sport as an impetus to national development and friendship between countries.