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As many as 10,000 volunteers from nearly 100 Vietnamese and foreign organisations joined the Vietnam Volunteer Festival 2014, which was launched in Hanoi on December 6 as part of activities to mark 15 years of the Vietnam youth volunteer campaign and the International Volunteer Day (December 5).
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong met with voters in Hanoi on December 6 to inform them of the outcomes of the National Assembly’s eighth session and listen to their opinions.
The Lao Government has presented the Friendship Medal and a certificate of merit to Ambassador Nguyen Trung Thanh, Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva, in recognition of the Vietnamese mission’s support for Laos’ bid to join the WTO.
The first phase of the Vie-Pan Techno Park (Vietnam-Japan technological park) was officially inaugurated in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5.
As many as 453 patients born with cleft lip and palates in the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc have benefited from a free surgery project, with the support of the Republic of Korea’s Il Woong Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation since 1994.
Police in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh caught two men in the act of transporting 45 bars of heroin (a bar is equivalent to 350 grammes) using motorbike on December 5.
Localities from northern Quang Ninh to southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces and the ministries of Defence, Transport, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Foreign Affairs have been asked to promptly take actions in anticipation of super typhoon Hagupit, which is likely to hit the East Sea in the next several days.
Twenty-five ethnic minority students from southern localities, who made outstanding academic performance in the 2013-2014 school year, were honoured at a ceremony held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5.
The US Embassy in Hanoi announced the winners of a logo design competition marking the 20 th anniversary of the Vietnam – US relations in Hanoi on December 5.
The World Bank (WB) is committed to helping Vietnam restructure its economy to achieve progress in the coming time, WB Country Director Victoria Kwakwa assured Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh in Hanoi on December 5.