VOV.VN - A ceremony was held on September 6 by the Saigon Hi-tech Park (SHTP) Management Board to launch the Electronics and Semiconductor Centre (ESC).

VOV.VN - The United States Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently conducted a thorough review into the food hygiene and safety management system of Vietnamese tra fish exports to the US, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 31 for Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Marcin Czepelak, who is on a visit to Vietnam on the occasion of the first anniversary of the PCA Office in the country.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese embassies in Thailand and Cambodia held separate ceremonies on August 30 to mark the 78th anniversary of the August Revolution on August 19 and the upcoming National Day on September 2.

Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu and First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Vladimir Titov co-chaired the 12th Vietnam-Russia defense and security strategy dialogue in Moscow on August 29.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on August 29 chaired a teleconference with 28 coastal localities on solutions to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and make preparations for the EC’s fourth inspection in October.

Deputy Minister of Finance Vo Thanh Hung highlighted Vietnam’s flexible monetary policy management in an effort to promote consumption, investment and business while addressing the 10th ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting (AFMGM) which was held in Indonesia on August 24 and 25.

VOV.VN - A delegation led by Pham Tat Thang, member of the Party Central Committee and permanent deputy head of its Commission of Mass Mobilisation, paid a visit to Iran from August 21 to August 24.

VOV.VN - Senior Vietnamese Party and State leaders on August 24 mourned and paid their tributes to Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh at his funeral held in the northern port city of Hai Phong, his hometown.

Colonel Le Dinh Vu, Deputy Director of the Ministry of National Defence’s Department of Military Science and head of the office of the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-war Unexploded Ordnance and Toxic Chemical Consequences, held a working session with a visiting delegation from the US Senate Committee on Appropriations in Hanoi on August 23.