President Truong Tan Sang presented the Ho Chi Minh Order to the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) at its 55th founding anniversary in Hanoi on May 29.
The 60-year-old diplomatic relationship between Vietnam and Mongolia was the main focus of a workshop recently held in Mongolia.
The 17th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting opened in Algiers, Algeria, on May 28.
The escalating tension in the East Sea, a key navigation route as well as a site believed to habour vast deposits of oil, did and will have considerable implications for regional security, foreign scholars said at a round-table workshop in Singapore on May 28.
Vietnam’s northwest is one of the country’s key corn cultivation areas with nearly 300,000 ha used for the crop, accounting for 25 percent of the country’s total corn growing areas, the Vietnam Economic News reported on May 29.
Japanese enterprises will continue their investment in Ho Chi Minh City and call on more investors to Vietnam, Horito Hyakkoku, Chairman of the Japanese Business Association in the southern hub (JBAH), told the municipal People’s Committee on May 28.
President Truong Tan Sang hosted warm receptions for newly-appointed ambassadors of Namibia, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and Burkina Faso who came to present their credentials in Hanoi on May 28.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Song Hyun-Seung, President of the Yonhap News Agency from the Republic of Korea, in Hanoi on May 28.
Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and UK Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire discussed over the phone measures to promote the two countries’ strategic partnership on May 28.
The Hoa (ethnic Chinese) community in Ho Chi Minh City has expressed very strong disapproval of China’s illegal act of placing the Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig in Vietnam’s waters.