(VOV) -Economic losses caused by natural disasters in Vietnam during 2008-2012 accounted for 1.5% of the country’s GDP, up 0.5% compared to the figure reported in the 2003-2007 period.
Computer end-users in Vietnam lose a combined VND8 trillion (US$400 million) a year due to malicious programmes and computer viruses.
Horsemen from ethnic groups on the Bac Ha plateau in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai gather at the annual horse race festival on June 8.
Vietnamese businesses in Cambodia, including those investing in rubber plantation, have made great contributions to the country’s economic development, Cambodian Deputy PM Yim Chhay Ly has stated.
Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan highlighted the important role and contributions of women in all areas from politics and economics to society and family, during the 23rd Global Summit of Women in Kuala Lumpur on June 6.
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh and China’s Vice Premier Ma Kai have agreed to intensify exchanges and contact between high-ranking officials in various forms, helping boost the development of bilateral ties in a sound and stable manner.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on June 6 had a meeting with Myanmar President Thein Sein as part of his activities at the 2013 World Economic Forum on East Asia in Nay Pyi Taw.
Building strategic trust in defence ties between Vietnam and China will help nurture strategic trust between their parties, states, and people.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on June 5 sent a message of sympathy to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang over a recent deadly fire that killed 119 people and injured dozens of others in Dehui city, Jilin province.
The National Assembly (NA) deputies deliberated a string of draft laws at a plenary sitting of the ongoing fifth session in Hanoi on June 5 with NA Deputy Chairman Uong Chu Luu in the chair.