Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Sinh Hung on July 16 visited the northern province of Nam Dinh to examine its new rural construction programme.
Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Thanh Cung on July 16 held talks with Senior Lieutenant General Zhang Yang, Director of General Political Department under Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Vietnam's wood industry is expecting to meet this year's export target of US$5.5 billion, thanks to a market recovery, experts have said.
No cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and avian influenza H7N9 have been reported so far in Vietnam, a health official has said.
The successful performance of Vietnamese athletes at the Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games 4 (AIMAG 4) has provided fresh impetus for the country to join other sports events in 2013, particularly the 27th South East Asian Games (SEA Games 27) in Myanmar at the end of the year.
The Russia-Vietnam oil and gas joint venture, Vietsovpetro handed over a nursery school to Jin hamlet in Cu Ne commune, KrongBuk district in the Central Highland province of DakLak on July 15.
Vietnam and Sri Lanka should intensify and expand scopes of cooperation into new areas of aviation, tourism and irrigation apart from their existing close links in national defence and security, trade and investment, in a bid to deepen the traditional friendship.
The Vietnamese and Lao National Assembly (NA) Offices will build a plan to jointly improve their capacity to research and handle information, as well as build an office network and data storage system.
Ho Chi Minh City has set the targets of a 9.5 percent growth rate in gross domestic product (GDP) and annual GDP per capita at US$4,000 for 2013.
As many as 230 wheelchairs were presented to people with disabilities in the northern mountainous province of Son La on July 14.