Most Hanoians were willing to use alternatives to wildlife products if they were available and proven to be effective, according to a survey released on September 8 by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Sociology.
The Tri Minh Quartet and the Arabesque dance troupe will perform as representatives of Vietnamese contemporary art at the Center Stage programme in the US.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has proposed BBC Television of the UK develop a 30-second video clip advertising Vietnam’s tourism and broadcast it on the BBC channel in the Asia-Pacific region.
A delegation from the Vietnam Fatherland Front, led by its Vice President Le Ba Trinh, paid visits to the monks at Prek On Dot Pagoda and the Khmer people of the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on September 8 to express congratulatory wishes on the occasion of the Sene Dolta Festival 2014.
Nguyen Hoang Ngan, the Vietnamese queen of kata (performance), has won a gold medal at the Karate1 Premier League in Istanbul, Turkey.
Vietnam and Cuba expressed their wish to expand agricultural cooperation via a number of cooperation programmes, including a rice production programme and a master plan for aquaculture in Cuba until 2020.
President Truong Tan Sang toured the central province of Quang Tri on September 7-8, where he visited Con Co island district and inspected the new-style rural area building programme in Vinh Thanh commune, Vinh Linh district.
Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City’s People’s Committee Le Thanh Hai requested the Speaker of the Myanmar Assembly of the Union, Thura U Shwe Mann, to support businesses in the city and Myanmar to boost their partnership in the future.
Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Vu Xuan Hong hosted a reception for the President of the Republic of Tatarstan - a federal subject of Russia - R. Minnikhanov, in Hanoi on September 8.
The club of Vietnamese fellow-countrymen in Xiangkhouang, Laos organised an exchange in Vientiane on September 7 with a delegation from the Truong Son Club, including former Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Laos.