Thousands of South African students will have a chance to study in Cuba under the healthcare scholarship programme between the two countries and South Africa will help Cuba develop metallurgy, mechanics and mining industries.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet on July 29 sent his condolences to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari over the deadly crash of an airliner with 152 passengers on board.
The foreign-invested sector earned a trade surplus of 1.22 billion USD in the first seven months of the year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Buddhism under the Ly dynasty (1009-1225) was a special cultural heritage of Vietnam , said the Director of the Vietnam Buddhist Research Institute’s Hanoi branch.
Defence ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its dialogue partners will convene for the first time in the capital city of Hanoi on October 12.
Nearly 180 delegates from health food and traditional medicine management agencies and observers from the business community in ASEAN member countries gathered in Hanoi on July 29 for their 13th meeting.
A delegation from the Vietnamese People’s Supreme Court (VPSC) led by Chief Justice Truong Hoa Binh visited Laos from July 23-28 to boost cooperation with their Lao counterparts.
Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) has pledged continued support for Vietnam’s customs modernisation process to come up to global standards.
The Red River Delta province of Ninh Binh needs to take drastic solutions to promote its socio-economic development and achieve a GDP growth rate of over 18 percent in 2010, said the State leader.
The Ministry of Information and Communications has decided to temporarily stop licensing online games, ban advertisements of online games, and cut off from 11pm to 6am internet access to shops that offer public the use of PCs.
Despite strong rallies on Asian stock markets on July 28, the benchmark on the VN-Index dropped 1.34 percent to clDespite strong rallies on Asian stock markets on July 28, the benchmark on the VN-Index dropped 1.34 percent to close on July 28’s session at 491 points, a two-month low. ose on...
Partly-equitised Vietcombank posted a creditable pre-tax profit of 2.8 trillion VND (145.83 million USD) to June 30, up 7.3 percent against the same six months of last year.
Support policies for small- and medium-sized enterprises need to be updated if they are to develop, a senior Government official told a workshop in HCM City on July 28.
An international workshop on millennium Hanoi – the capital city in the past and future will take place in Hanoi on October 12 and 13 on the occasion of the celebrations of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
The output of domestically-produced automobiles and motorbikes increased by 23.7 and 21.8 percent, respectively, during the first seven months of the year, reported the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The Hanoi People’s Court on July 28 began a trial of former officials at the Transport Ministry’s Project Management Unit 18 (PMU 18) for deliberately acting against the State’s regulations and abusing power.
The Vietnam-Laos Inter-governmental Committee convened a meeting in the Lao province of Xieng Khouang on July 28 to review the cooperation results in the first half and discuss major tasks for the second half of the year.
A Buddhist Festival was held in the Mekong delta province of Bac Lieu on July 28 as part of preparations by Buddhists nationwide to celebrate the 1,000th birth anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
The People’s Council of the northern province of Ha Giang on July 28 dismissed Nguyen Truong To from the chairmanship of the provincial People’s Committee for disciplinary violations.
Officials met in Ho Chi Minh City on July 28 to discuss measures for long-term relations between business circles of Vietnam and Uzbekistan after viewing the current level of trade as “modest”.