Vietnam is making good progress in becoming a future member of the International Union of Notaries, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the Union’s President Jean-Paul Decorps in Hanoi on November 12.

Philippine naval forces rescued a Vietnamese fishing vessel on November 10 in waters 40 nautical miles off Balabac Island, two days after it was stranded due to engine failure.

Vietnam and Denmark will work closer together to increase the efficient use of indoor energies.

Danang has handed over 29 hectares of land at Danang International Airport to relevant bodies to conduct a dioxin clean-up project.

The municipal administration of HCM City has requested the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to make several modifications to its proposal to limit the use of personal vehicles in the nation’s bigger cities.

Following a five-month decline, lending by commercial banks began to expand in June and has now risen 3.3 percent over the same period last year.

Coffee exports in the past 10 months set a new record at 1.41 million tonnes, earning more than US$3 billion, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

With its foreign policy of “Look East”, Hungary sees Vietnam as a strategic diplomatic partner in the Asian region.

Top Vietnamese player Ma Xuan Cuong has been invited to take part in the 2013 AGIPI Billiards Masters first qualifying round in Strasbourg, France, on November 23-25.

Vietnam will compete at the World Youth Chess Championship which will take place in Maribor, Slovenia, from November 7-19.