VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City must make every effort in order to ensure the growth rate does not fall much lower than the 8% to 8.5% set target, according to economic experts.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha’s participation in the coming Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo will affirm Vietnam’s resolve to realise its committements on greenhouse gas emission reduction and climate change response.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang joined a meeting with Vietnamese expatriate community and representative agencies in Switzerland on February 26, following his arrival in Geneva to attend a high-level discussion of the 52nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

The formation of a Vietnam Town in Udon Thani province, which is hosting the largest overseas Vietnamese community in Thailand, is an obvious development trend, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Phan Chi Thanh while inspecting the Vietnam Street project in the locality on February 25.

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) on February 24 honoured the southern province of Binh Duong as one of the Top 21 Intelligent Communities of the world (Smart 21) in 2023.

It has been two weeks since the devastating earthquake on February 6, and there have yet to be reports of Vietnamese casualties in Turkey, Vietnamese Ambassador to Turkey Do Son Hai said on February 22.

From February 12 to 20, a Vietnamese art group from Tra Vinh University went to Rajim, Chattisgarh, India to participate in state level Ramayan Mandli competition.

VOV.VN - The nation always stands ready to perform international missions such as UN peacekeeping and most recently search and rescue operations in earthquake–hit Turkey, according to Palestinian Ambassador Saadi Salama, head of diplomatic corps in Vietnam.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Quang Hieu, who is also Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (COVA), has extended sympathy to and shared earthquake-induced difficulties of the Vietnamese community in Turkey.

VOV.VN - Many Vietnamese locations have been named among categories of the ASEAN Tourism Awards presented at the 2023 ASEAN Tourism Forum in Indonesia from Feb. 2-5, highly valuing their high-quality tourism products and services, contributing to boosting the sustainable development of tourism in ASEAN.