Algeria’s newspapers have hailed achievements the Vietnam’s People Army’s (VPA) has made over the past 70 years of development under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

Vietnam should build laws and regulations to further promote the role that social organisations play in preventing and controlling violence against children and child abuse, child rights activists proposed during a policy dialogue in Hanoi on December 10.

The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) handed over the Library - Documentation Centre and Office Building to the Lao Academy of Social Sciences (LASS) at a ceremony in capital Vientiane on December 9. 

Vietnam always works to foster the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia, Minister of Defence Phung Quang Thanh told Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Andrey G. Kovtun.

Over 200 scientists, managers and local coffee farmers gathered in Dak Lak province on December 9 to seek solutions for the sustainable replanting of old coffee trees and development of the industrial crops in the Central Highlands.

Vietnam's 2015 football season will kick off with the National Super Cup match between Hai Phong and hosts Becamex Binh Duong at Go Dau Stadium on December 27.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has praised the positive assistance and effective coordination of foreign countries and international organisations in the fight against AIDS, drugs and prostitution in Vietnam. 

Politburo member and Permanent Secretary of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Le Hong Anh received a delegation from the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee’s Office led by its head Khamphanh Phommathat in Hanoi on December 9.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is paying a working visit to Laos from December 9-10 at an invitation of his Lao counterpart Somsavat Lengsavad. 

The Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) was named in the Top 10 of VNR500 in 2014 and was the only commercial bank in the position, Vietnam Report Joint Stock Company announced on December 9.