Party General Secretary and President To Lam received Senator Chris Coons, a democrat and Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programmes, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics as part of his US trip on September 25 (local time).

The Ministry of Education and Training is ready to collaborate with the Francophone University Association (AUF) to build a national consultation framework and facilitate the further promotion of the AUF's activities with priorities on the use of French language in the development of education and training, science and technology, a senior official has said.

VOV.VN - Singapore-based United Overseas Bank (UOB) has downgraded Vietnam’s economic growth rate to 5.9% this year due to the impact of recent typhoon Yagi, according to the bank’s latest report on the economic situation in the third quarter of the year.

The upcoming state visit to Cuba by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam demonstrates the special relations and traditional friendship between the two nations, according to Dr. Ruvislei González Saez, senior researcher at the Cuban Centre for International Policy Research.

VOV.VN - Vietnam raked in US$648 million from tuna exports during the opening eight months of the year, representing a rise of 19% year on year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

VOV.VN - A range of diverse and quality products, together with unique art performances, put on at Vietnamese pavilion have drawn attention from numerous visitors at the 21st China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) which is getting underway in Nanning city of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

VOV.VN - Air Zermatt, a Swiss mountain helicopter service provider, announced on its homepage on September 24 that its rescue team have successfully saved two Vietnamese climbers who had become stranded on the Matterhorn.

The Governor of Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, Nagasaki Kotaro, on September 24 presented the token of JPY1 million (over US$6,900) to the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan to support the country’s disaster relief efforts in the wake of Typhoon Yagi and its subsequent floods and landslides.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 25 attended the opening of the fifth Ho Chi Minh City Economic Forum themed “Industrial Transformation: New Driving Force for Sustainable Development of Ho Chi Minh City.”

A hybrid forum to foster economic and trade exchange between Vietnamese enterprises and those in France’s Aix - Marseille Provence metropolitan area was held in Marseille city on September 23.