Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) have invested in more than 3,000 firms in Ho Chi Minh City with a total capital amounting to US$1.91 billion, heard a meeting between the municipal Committee for Overseas Vietnamese and representatives of the group held in the city on September 7.

Contractors have been asked to accelerate work on the Le Van Luong - Belt Road No. 3 tunnel in Hanoi with a view to inaugurating this facility on October 10.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on September 6 for Governor of Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Khuong Sreng.

A series of Vietnamese short films will be screened at Vietnamese Short Film Week, which will be held in HCM City and Hanoi from September 7.

VOV.VN - Lotte Holdings Co. Ltd. of the Republic of Korea on September 2 broke ground for Eco Smart City Thu Thiem -a multi-functional complex of commercial services, upmarket hotels and apartments - in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Vietnam supports regular meetings to be held between relevant Vietnamese agencies and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to iron out snags and ramp up ODA projects in the country.

VOV.VN - The nation is currently the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s third largest trading partner, while the RoK has developed into the largest direct investor in country.

The Vietnamese office of the international child-focused agency World Vision on August 18 held a workshop in Hanoi to kick off its Against Child Exploitation (ACE) project in the country.

VOV.VN - Acting Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan expressed her desire to further strengthen healthcare ties between Vietnam and its partners Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) during her separate meetings with diplomats of the two countries in Hanoi on August 16.

VOV.VN - The 77th anniversary of Indonesia’s Independence Day (1945 – 2022) was celebrated by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO), showing the solidarity and friendship between people of the two nations.