Former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan was an important public intellectual, a technocrat with political opinions and ideas and an economist who had made significant contributions to the construction and development of Vietnam, especially in the process of opening up, bringing the country into deep integration with the world.

VOV.VN - The National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on June 22 in Hanoi regarding future co-operation in intellectual property.

A seminar on the Vietnam - UK partnerships in innovation and education was held by the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK, the Vietnamese Intellectual Society in the UK and Ireland (VIS), and Middlesex University in London on June 19.

A Vietnamese sports delegation, including six athletes, is attending the Special Olympics World Games, taking place in Berlin from June 17-25.

Vietnamese athletes have arrived in Germany to attended the Special Olympics World Games, the world's largest sporting event for athletes with intellectual disabilities, autism and cerebral palsy.

A Vietnamese business delegation led by Le Khanh Van, director of the Centre for Science-Technology Application and Startup (COSTAS) under the Vietnam Association for Intellectual Women (VAFIW), attended the third “Made in Russia” - the leading exhibition in the beauty industry of Russia that took place in Moscow on June 6-7.

As many as 100 outstanding Vietnamese intellectuals in Japan gathered at an event held on May 27 by the Association of Vietnamese Intellectuals in Japan (AVIJ), under the auspices of the Vietnamese Embassy, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Housing 149 out of Vietnam’s 712 sci-tech companies, Hanoi remains in need of breakthrough solutions so that the capital city can quickly raise the local quality and quantity of businesses to reflect its true potential.

The Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance (DMS) on April 25 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Schott AG, a leading group in the areas of specialty glass, glass-ceramics and glass innovations from Germany, aiming to promote cooperation in combating counterfeits products and enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights of Schott AG brands in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The Copyright Office of Vietnam held a ceremony on April 18 in Hanoi kick-starting a series of events in response to World Intellectual Property Day (April 26).