Vietnam and Italy should boost their cooperation on energy, especially on alternative energies, such as wind and solar power, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said. 

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong met members of the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association and the Russian Association of War Veterans with Vietnam Experiences in Moscow on November 24.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen agreed in talks in Vientiane, Laos on November 24 to strive towards US$5 billion in trade next year on the sidelines of the eighth Summit of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle.

The friendship parliamentarians’ groups of Vietnam and Brazil are expected to act as a bridge between the two countries’ national assemblies and parliamentarians, according to Tran Van Hang, Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations.

Legislators approved the revised Law on the Organisation of People’s Courts and the Law on the Organisation of People’s Procuracies during a plenary session in Hanoi on November 24.

President Truong Tan Sang has sent his greetings to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas on the occasion of the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people (November 29).

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Lao counterpart Thongsing Thammavong agreed to conclude negotiations on the signing of a new bilateral trade agreement, which forms the legal framework for achieving the two countries’ goal of US$2 billion in trade by 2015.

The Asian Records Organisation granted four Asian records to Vietnamese units and individuals at a convocation between Vietnamese record holders and those from some Asian nations held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 22.

Vietnam has organised a steering committee that will enable the country's tea industry to recover, become highly competitive and achieve sustainable development in the future. 

Eight residents in the vicinity of world heritage site Ho Dynasty Citadel in northern central Thanh Hoa province took a chance to depict their love for the heritage as well as challenges to maintaining its vitality by cameras.