A cultural exchange event connecting Lao and Cambodian students studying in Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnamese families hosting them have been held in the southern province of Binh Thuan, aiming to strengthen the friendship and comprehensive and sustainable cooperation between Vietnam and its two neighboring countries.

The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) recently approved the listing of 23.7 million shares of TNV, owned by the Thong Nhat Ha Noi JSC, on the UpCom bourse.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG)’s CSB 8004 ship is on its way to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for a visit and to hold an exchange with the Korean Coast Guard (KCG), a move which will implement the sides’ memorandum of understanding (MoU) on co-operation signed in 2007.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu paid a working visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from October 21 to October 26 to conduct the 5th Vietnam - DPRK deputy foreign minister-level rotational policy exchange.

An exchange programme was held in Hanoi on October 25 by the Ministry of Defence’s Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), along with the opening of a photo exhibition themed “Vietnamese female military personnel in United Nations peacekeeping operations”.

The US dollar may further strengthen against the Vietnamese dong to hit VND25,400 per dollar at the end of this month, according to experts.

VOV.VN - A National Assembly deputy has proposed the establishment of an official gold trading exchange in an effort to manage and regulate the domestic gold market amid signs of a gold fever with significant price volatility occurring in recent times.

VOV.VN - The second Vietnam-Laos border defence friendship exchange held in Vietnam's northern mountainous province of Son La and Laos' Houaphanh province wrapped up on October 23 with remarkable success.

VOV.VN - General Phan Van Giang, Minister of National Defense of Vietnam, welcomed General Chansamone Chanyalath, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense of Laos, to a border defense friendship exchange between the two armies at Long Sap border gate of Moc Chau district, Son La province, on October 22.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA), and Chairman of the Central Theory Council, hosted a visiting delegation from the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by Qu Qingshan, Director of the CPC Central Institute of Party History and Literature, in Hanoi on October 21.