Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thi Thu Ha on July 10 hosted a reception for Pelayo Terry Cuervo, Editor-in-Chief of Granma – the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party.
Chinese marine surveillance aircraft CMS-B3808 on July 10 was seen to flight above Vietnamese law enforcement ships that are operating in the national waters, close to where drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 is illegally standing, reported the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.
The State President’s Office on July 10 held a press conference to announce new laws and a resolution that were approved during the seventh session of the 13th National Assembly in late June.
Vietnam has asked the Cambodian administration to take effective measures to prevent wrongful activities against the bilateral flourishing traditional friendship and neighbourliness.
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations in Ho Chi Minh City (HUFO) on July 10 issued a statement protesting China ’s illegal activities in the East Sea.
The Vietnam-Russia Technology and Investment JSC (VRG) plans to build a luxury eco-tourism area on Soi Nhu island in northern coastal Quang Ninh province’s Van Don district.
The Khmer ethnic minority community in the southern province of Bac Lieu are closely watching the developments in the East Sea as China is illegally placing its oil rig in Vietnam’s waters.
The incidence of viral encephalitis, including Japanese encephalitis, so far this year is much lower than that of previous same periods, Director of the Ministry of Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine Tran Dac Phu said on July 9.
The Vietnamese community in Angola has raised US$58,000 in their recent protest against China’s illegal move to station its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou – 981 in Vietnam’s waters.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has expressed hope for stronger cooperation in economics, science-technology, culture, education and tourism with the German state of Hessen.