Economic experts and journalists have called for closer bonds among the mass media, policy makers, economic managers and entrepreneurs to foster the national cause of poverty reduction.
A seminar on monitoring the hygiene of Vietnam’s agro-fishery exports was held in Tokyo on March 6 by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and the ASEAN–Japan Centre.
Ukraine will enhance economic and trade relations with its traditional partners and support Ukrainian–Vietnamese joint-venture enterprises, announced Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara.
Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh met with New Zealand Ambassador Maike Manning on March 6 to discuss preparations for his upcoming working visit to New Zealand.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide additional US$100 million in technical assistance for the development of secondary cities in three central and Central Highland provinces.
Vietnamese music student Tran Tuan An won first prize at the Society of American Musicians (SAM) Guitar Competition on March 3.
Two Buddha statues in Vietnam have been named the biggest and the longest Buddha statues on mountains by the Asian Record Organisation (ARO), said the Vietnam Book of Records (Vietkings).
A Vietnamese sailor has been killed in an apparent incident of arson aboard a fishing ship of the Republic of Korea (RoK) docked in Cape Town, South Africa.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged more drastic efforts to fight drug crimes, while improving drug detoxification programmes.
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan inspected the collection of public opinions on the draft amendments to the 1992 Constitution in the northern province of Bac Ninh on March 5.