Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Honorary President of the 10th-tenure Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC), on August 29 met with 80 delegates representing nearly 500 participants in the 11th VRC National Congress for the 2022 - 2027 tenure.

VOV.VN - The number of cars imported into Vietnam rose sharply in August and has reached a record high over the past eight months, according the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The consumer price index (CPI) for August edged up just 0.005% compared to July, raising the eight-month CPI to 2.58%, the General Statistics Office reported on August 29.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of US$3.96 billion over the first eight months of the year, with the total import and export turnover of goods rising by 15.5% year on year to US$497.64 billion, according to figures given by the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Over the past 77 years, Vietnam, under the sound leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Government, has grown in all spheres, bring progress, prosperity, and better prestige to the nation in the region and in the world, said a Cambodian official.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Italian Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Enrico Padula have discussed ways to promote bilateral ties, especially in hi-tech agriculture, manufacturing and processing, transport, logistics, finance-banking, and preservation of cultural heritage values.

VOV.VN - General Secretary of Party Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong on August 25 had phone talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to exchange views on issues of mutual concern, including measures to foster the close strategic partnership between the two countries.

The National Archives Centre III under the Ministry of Home Affairs’ State Records and Archives Department has received 111 photos of legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap.

Vietnamese Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam paid courtesy calls on General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith and Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavan in Vientiane on August 24.

A bilingual book of poems on legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911 – 2013) made debut in Hanoi on August 23 on the occasion of the general’s 111st birthday (August 25, 1911 – 2022).