The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will carry out measures to help fishermen access loans and feel financially secure during their time at sea, SBV Governor Nguyen Van Binh declared.
A joint cooperation programme for the 2014-2020 period was signed between the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs and the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on September 25 in Hanoi, aiming to attract foreign investments in ethnic minority-inhabited areas.
Vietnam held its first national preliminary consultation seminar in Can Tho on September 25 to assess the impact of the construction of the Don Sahong hydropower plant on the Mekong River in Laos.
Mu Cang Chai district’s Culture and Tourism Week was launched on September 25 in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, attracting a large number of local residents and tourists.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh delivered remarks on Vietnam’s place in the world order to the Asia Society members on the sideline of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 69) in New York on September 24.
The Government has issued a decree stipulating preferential policies for scientists in a bid to attract more overseas Vietnamese and foreign science and technology researchers to Vietnam.
Hanoi’s tourism sector is taking a wide range of measures, including increasing the number of services on offer, improving the quality of services, and boosting links with other localities in an effort to lure more holiday-makers to the capital.
The southern province of Binh Duong generated over US$11 billion from exports during the first nine months of this year, moving closer to its annual target of US$16.7 billion, which is up by 16.5% compared to last year.
Policy and legal experts are gathering at a two-day conference in the central city of Danang to discuss the contributions of social organisations to the law-building process in Vietnam.
About 140 doctors from the Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital (VGH) will deliver ten surgical packages to seven hospitals in the north as part of its satellite hospital project for 2013-2015.