The Government has approved a number of partnership agreements and draft deals with foreign partners in various fields, including science and technology, sea transport and education.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of northern Thai Binh province Pham Van Sinh expressed his hope to reach investment and export deals with Iran during his reception for Iranian parliamentarians on November 21.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s participation in the forthcoming eighth Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle summit aims to foster the coordination in the implementation of joint programmes in defence, security and socio-economic development.
The Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) lowered the petroleum price by 1,140 VND ( US$0.053) per litre and diesel by VND450 – 590 (US$0.021 – 0.028) per litre, starting at 11:00 on November 22.
The incident at the Ho Chi Minh City Area Control Centre (AACC Ho Chi Minh) at Tan Son Nhat Airport on Nov. 20 is an extremely serious technical failure that has never occurred before in the history of the Vietnamese aviation history, an official affirmed at a press conference on November 21.
The Japanese Embassy in Hanoi announced that on November 20, Japan started a simplified application procedure for single tourist visas for Vietnamese nationals as part of efforts to further promote people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
An exhibition of royal administrative documents, which dated back to the Nguyen dynasty (1802 - 1945), opened in central Thua Thien – Hue province on November 21.
Vietnam expects to welcome 100,000 Indian tourist arrivals in the near future as the two countries hold huge potential to develop bilateral ties in this field, stated Nguyen Quoc Hung, deputy head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VAT).
The “100 resilient cities” programme which is pioneered by the US’s Rockefeller Foundation was launched in Vietnam at a workshop in the central city of Danang on November 21.
Production cost is the major barrier for the development of renewable energy in Vietnam, an official from the Institute of Energy told a workshop in Hanoi on November 21.