The management over motorbike riders should be intensified since they account for more than more than 70% of the country’s total road accidents, heard a Hanoi workshop on motor vehicle ownership and use.
The Central Executive Board of Hoa Hao Buddhist sect held the second annual conference in southern An Giang province on November 19 to review its performance in 2014 and map out orientations for 2015.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s upcoming visit to Russia is a highly important event, which will help promote comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two nations, Russian experts said.
A programme on environmental sanitation jointly carried out by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Health in Vietnam since 2009 has contributed to raising public awareness of using hygienic toilets and giving up the indiscriminate defecation habit.
The sixth International Conference on East Sea with in-depth discussions seeking experts’ ideas for the East Sea issue concluded in the central city of Danang on November 18.
The United States is poised to become the largest and fastest-growing market for Vietnamese exporters.
The 24th ASEAN Armies Rifle Meet (AARM-24) opened at the Mieu Mon National Training Centre in My Duc district, Hanoi on November 19.
Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh met bilaterally with Myanmar Defence Minister Wai Lwin and Brunei Energy Minister Pehin Yasmin in Bagan, Myanmar on November 18.
A delegation of the Vietnam Journalists Association (VJA) led by Vice Chairman Ha Minh Hue is on a visit to China from November 16 and 22 at the invitation of All-China Journalists Association (ACJA).
A Chinese national was caught red-handed carrying over 975 grams of heroin in Ka Long ward, Mong Cai city, the northern border province of Quang Ninh on November 18.