Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang and Meng Jianzhu, head of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (CPCCC)’s Commission for Political and Legal Affairs, had a meeting on security cooperation in Beijing on October 26.
A delegation from the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) paid a working visit to China from October 22-26 at the invitation of President of the China Association for International Friendly Contact Li Zhaoxing to seek ways to strengthen people-to-people diplomacy.
The Vietnam Trade Office in Australia and the Ministry of Industry and Trade are organising a series of activities to help Vietnamese exporters sell more goods to this market.
An Ebola response drill will be held at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on November 1 and then in three other hospitals in Hanoi, central Thua Thien-Hue and Ho Chi Minh City, according to the Health Ministry.
Deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Education and Popularisation Nguyen The Ky described the visit to Vietnam by a delegation of the Cuban Journalists’ Association (CJA) as a vivid manifestation of the time-honoured relationship between the mass media of the two countries.
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem ranked second with four points at the ongoing Spice Cup Open 2014 in Missouri in the United States after winning the fourth and fifth round on October 24.
A ceremony to launch the construction of Tam Dao 05 offshore oilrig, the second locally-manufactured jack-up rig, was held in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on October 25.
The second Asian Para Games wrapped up in Incheon, the Republic of Korea on October 24, with Vietnam ranking tenth in the medal standings.
Businesses from the Republic of Korea were updated on Vietnam’s new labour policy at a workshop held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in conjunction with the RoK’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanoi on October 24.
A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on October 24 to receive the first oil flow from the Su Tu Nau (Brown Lion) oil field in Block 15.1 in the Cuu Long Basin offshore the southern region.