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3792 newsVietnam’s newly-appointed Consul General in Luang Prabang Tran Van Tuan presented credentials to Lao Deputy Foreign Minister Sounthon Saynhachac in Vientiane on February 21.
The National Assembly’s Council for Ethnic Affairs gave their feedback on the draft amendments to the 1992 Constitution at its fifth meeting in Hanoi on February 21.
The year’s most-anticipated poetry festival entitled “ Youth and Nation” will take place at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi this weekend, when the 11th National Poetry Day coincides as usual with first full-moon of the year.
Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) has been named in the top 500 banking brands globally with a trademark value of US$271 million.
Five more Vietnamese Tra fish producers and processors have won the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)’s aquaculture production certificate since the beginning of this year.
The Vietnam Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System and the Vietnam Customs Information System (VNACCS/VCIS) will speed up an e-customs project to be put into operation by the end of this year.
A US congressional delegation headed by Senator Mary Landrieu is on a visit to Vietnam from February 19-21 to discuss issues relating to children welfare and the resumption of a child adoption programme between the two countries.
Dong Van Stone Plateau in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang will be developed into a national tourism complex by 2020.
Hanoi will spend VND34.1 billion (US$1.6 million) on new technology to carry out organ transplants.
The Government has taken measures to ease difficulties facing businesses during the prolonged economic downturn.