A seminar was co-organised by the Vietnamese Embassy in France and the local authority of Paris suburb Choisy le Roi on March 23 to review the signing of the 1973 Paris Agreement that ended the war and restored peace in Vietnam.
The central coastal region should enhance its sea-borne tourism potential and natural resources to attract investment and development, said Nguyen Ba Thanh, Head of the Central Coastal Regional Coordination Board.
The campaign “Vietnamese people use Vietnamese goods” has received a warm response from local enterprises and consumers since its launch by the Party’s Political Bureau in 2009.
Domestic and foreign experts and businesses in the fishery sector have discussed measures to improve the sector’s development capacity, with a focus on observing trade standards.
A total of 123 children needing special medical care have been adopted by foreigners in the last two years through a Ministry of Justice programme.
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai on March 22 received Myanmar Vice President Nyan Tun.
The Vietnamese and New Zealand Defence Ministries will work closely together to elevate bilateral defence cooperation to a new level with the early signing of a defence cooperation agreement.
Some tourist guides working in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang tourism centre in the central province of Quang Binh on March 21 discovered, quite by chance, an ancient jar inside the Phong Nha grotto.
Thousands of people from all corners of the country flocked to the northern province of Hung Yen on March 21 to attend a festival commemorating Chu Dong Tu and Tien Dung, who have been honoured by generations for their immortal love.
Vietnam’s export of handicraft products in 2013 is estimated at US$1.5 or 1.6 billion, equal to last year’s figure and about 1.5 percent of the global market share, according to the Import-Export Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.