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3792 newsOn April 27, the 282 High School in Moscow, with 200 of its 340 students being Vietnamese, held a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the Liberation of Southern Vietnam and Vietnam’s Reunification Day, which falls on April 30.
A gallery specialising in the modern art of Thailand and Vietnam opened in Bangkok on April 27.
The international Vietnam MEDI-PHARM 2013 will be held in Hanoi on May 8-15 with the participation of 350 pharmacy groups and enterprises from 30 countries and territories, organisers VIETFAIR said at a press briefing on April 26.
The “Vietnam-Japan Friendship Train” will run on the North-South railway from May 8 to September 23, as part of activities to celebrate the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Year.
Vietnam and Laos signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on natural resources and environmental cooperation in Hanoi on April 26.
Vietnam will adopt every suitable and necessary peaceful measure to defend sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction as well as its legal and legitimate national interests in the East Sea in accordance with the UN Charter, international law and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 UNCLOS).
The South African Embassy in Hanoi held a ceremony in the capital city on April 26 to mark the country’s 19th Freedom Day (April 27) and the 20th anniversary of South Africa–Vietnam diplomatic ties.
The Hue Centre for Monuments Conservation has opened the royal garden of the Nguyen Dynasty – Co Ha, to the public.
Vietnam and Laos expect to increase two-way trade turnover to US$2 billion in 2015 and US$5 billion in 2020.
Industrial production index in April increased by 5.8 percent over the same period last year, contributing to a year on year increase of five percent in the first four months of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.