VOV.VN - Vietnamese commodities exported to Laos rose 10.4% last year to hit US$656.4 million, of which petroleum exports brought in US$125.4 million, up 439%, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Laos.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum has recently received two paintings presented by Ellen Berends, former deputy ambassador of the Netherlands to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese IT firm Rikkeisoft expanded its first footprint in the United States on February 1, by opening RKTech, a US company which is 100% owned by Rikkeisoft.

Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen appreciated Cambodian Consul General Sok Dareth’s substantial contributions to the city’s relations with Cambodian localities, while receiving the outgoing diplomat on February 1.

A book by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong regarding the fight against corruption and other negative phenomena will be released at a ceremony in Hanoi on February 2, according to the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh outlined main tasks to improve the material and spiritual life of labourers at a meeting on coordination between the Government and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) in Hanoi on February 1.

VOV.VN - UK Minister of State The Rt Hon Gregory Hands of the Department for International Trade arrived in Hanoi on February 1 to hold high level trade talks on how the UK joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will boost the economic firepower of the world’s most dynamic trade bloc.

VOV.VN - Phan Van Mai, chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, hosted a reception on January 31 for Sok Dareth, Cambodian Consul General in the southern city, who came to bid farewell at the end of his tenure.

VOV.VN - An Australian travel publication Traveller of The Sydney Morning Herald has recently released its list of the top 25 hottest destinations this year, with the Mekong Delta of Vietnam featured in the list of places.

VOV.VN - The nation saw 10,800 newly-established enterprises in January, an increase of 0.7% over the previous month, although representing a fall of 16.6% over the same period from last year, according to data compiled by the General Statistics Office (GSO) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.