Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Bonifacio Ali made a tour of Ho Chi Minh City and two southern provinces of Binh Phuoc and Tien Giang on September 1-2.

A live joint-TV programme was held in Hanoi, Cao Bang, Tuyen Quang, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hue on September 1 featuring Vietnam’s struggle for independence and national construction.

A delegation from the National Assembly led by Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong left Hanoi on September 2 to attend a meeting of parliamentary speakers from the G20 countries in Canada and later pay an official visit to Cuba.

Russia’s Atomic Energy Group Rosatom and Vietnamese scientists will set up a training centre for nuclear power plants and an atomic energy research institute, said Rosatom Chairman Sergey Kirienko.

Leaders of foreign countries from around the world sent congratulations to Vietnam's Party, State, Government and National Assembly leaders on the 65th anniversary of the country's National Day (September 2).

State President Nguyen Minh Triet has expressed his gratitude to elder generations, President Ho Chi Minh, revolutionary veterans, heroic mothers, martyrs, war invalids and the entire people who fought for independence and freedom of the nation.

Delegates from the Party Central Committee, State, National Assembly, Government and the Fatherland Front of Vietnam paid tribute at the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum on September 1 for the 65th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon extended his warmest congratulations to President Nguyen Minh Triet on the occasion of the 65th National Day of Vietnam (September 2).

State President Nguyen Minh Triet has sent a letter of congratulation to teachers, lecturers, parents, students and pupils across the country to mark the new academic year. 

Ho Chi Minh City leaders have pledged to exert more efforts to provide the most favourable conditions for further exchange and cooperation with international and foreign agencies, organisations and businesses.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 31 urged the Government to do its utmost to achieve socio-economic targets for 2010.

The 65th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2) was celebrated in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, and Bangkok, Thailand.

Many provinces and cities around the country have celebrated the August Revolution (August 19) and the National Day (September 2) with a variety of activities.

The Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and Public Administration held a seminar on August 31 to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The traditional relationship between Vietnam and Algeria has flourished in recent years, said Do Trong Cuong, Vietnamese Ambassador to the country, on the occasion of Vietnam’s National Day (September 2).

A Vietnamese delegation led by the Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Ha Thi Khiet has visited France, Switzerland and Belgium to spur the campaign to study and follow late President Ho Chi Minh’s Moral Example.

A National Assembly delegation led by Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong will attend a meeting of parliament speakers of G20 countries in Canada and pay an official visit to Cuba from September 2-7.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan sincerely thanked UNESCO for its close and efficient cooperation with Vietnam over recent years at a meeting with UNESCO’s Chief of Hanoi Office, Katherine Muller Marin on August 30.

The Head of the State of Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov paid a working visit to the southern province of Binh Duong on August 30 during his stay in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received visiting Cambodian Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana in Hanoi on August 30.

Development cooperation between Vietnam and Malaysia is growing well in various areas such as politics, diplomacy, economics, trade, investment, security, national defense, education and training and labour.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem chaired the seventh session of the National Committee for ASEAN 2010 in Hanoi on August 30.

A Vietnamese delegation led by National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong will attend a G-20 consultation of parliamentary speakers and visit Cuba from September 2-7.

Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts on Vietnamese and world revolutions have proved to be of great significance in practice, said To Huy Rua, Head of the Party Central Commission for Communication and Education.

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) sent a delegation to the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) held in Colombo from August 27-29. 

Vietnam wants to boost cooperation with Kalmyk, said President Nguyen Minh Triet at a reception for visiting President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in Ho Chi Minh City on August 29.  

State President Nguyen Minh Triet has wrapped up his official visit to Cambodia to promote the traditional relationship between the two countries.

Senior officials from Military Zone 4, and Nghe An, Binh Dinh, and Thanh Hoa provinces attended a celebration along with revolutionary veterans to mark National Day (September 2) and the 80th anniversary of the Nghe Tinh - Soviet movement (September 12).

State President Nguyen Minh Triet returned home in the afternoon on August 28, wrapping up an official visit to Laos and a State-level visit to Cambodia.

A meeting to mark the 62nd National Day of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) (Sept. 9) was held in the northern province of Hai Duong on Aug. 28 by the provincial Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association.