The Asian Institute of Technology in Vietnam (AIT-VN) held a workshop introducing “business sustainability index” in Hanoi on September 25.
Laos’ Prime Minister Thongsinh Thammavong on September 25 received Vuong Dinh Hue, Head of the Economic Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, during which a stronger bilateral economic relationship was pledged.
Finland supports the acceleration of the signing of a free trade agreement between Vietnam and the European Union and the bloc’s recognition of Vietnam as a market economy, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said on September 25.
Vietnam supports the efforts undertaken by the international community to combat all forms of terrorism, including acts of violence and extremism, Spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry Le Hai Binh declared during a press conference in Hanoi on September 25.
Vietnam has always pursued a policy of safeguarding citizens’ rights to religion and belief freedom, as stipulated in the country’s Constitution and legal framework, Head of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs Pham Dung affirmed.
Two air routes connecting Phu Quoc island district in southern Kien Giang province with Singapore and Siem Riep of Laos will be officially launched in November this year.
A retail network comprising over 1,000 supermarkets and shopping centres is to be built in Hanoi by 2020 to serve the needs of its citizens, Vice Director of Hanoi’s Department of Industry and Trade Tran Thi Phuong Lan has said.
Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh caught two men in the act of transporting over 3,000 synthetic pills, more than 700g of crystal methamphetamine and 34.1g of heroin in the early hours of September 24.
Nine national relic sites in Hanoi are being featured in a photograph exhibition that opened at the Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) on September 24.
Policy-makers and domestic and international scientists attended a workshop in Hanoi on September 24 to review migration policies in a bid to increase community resilience to climate change.