VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh applauded the contributions made by Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister, to the UK’s bilateral relations with Vietnam during his working tenure as UK PM from 1997 to 2007 and at present at a reception held on July 26 in Hanoi.
VOV.VN - Vietnamese students will be given more opportunities to follow post-graduate courses in France, especially through the student exchange programme with Vietnam - France University, says Valérier Verdier, CEO and chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD).
VOV.VN - A total of seven consecutive earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 2.7 to 3.8 hit Kon Plong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum from midnight of July 11 to the early morning of July 12.
VOV.VN - A total of 12 tremors, with magnitudes of up to 4.2, vibrated Kon Plong, a mountainous district of Kon Tum province in the Central Highlands on July 7, the Institute of Geophysics has reported.
Vietnam’s increasing middle-power status in the Asia-Pacific region has sparked interest on its successful foreign diplomacy, which is known as “bamboo diplomacy”, said Layton Pike, Co-founder of the Australia Vietnam Policy Institute (AVPI).
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has sent a document to credit institutions and branches of foreign banks and SBV in provinces and centrally-run cities regarding the reduction of interest rates.
The Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) and the Smart Geophysics Solutions JSC (SGS) on June 28 jointly in Hanoi an international scientific workshop on carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) experiment and modeling.
The banking sector should take more drastic measures to restructure credit institutions in association with the settlement of bad debts to contribute to curbing inflation and stabilising macro-economic factors, according to insiders.
VOV.VN - The Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is scheduled to take place from June 26 to 30 in Hanoi, aiming to introduce the African cinema industry to Vietnamese cinemagoers.
VOV.VN - Southern provinces have so far recorded more than 9,000 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), including four deaths, according to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City.