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As many as 582 vehicles carried goods through the Kim Thanh Border Gate from April 6 to 24, averaging from 60 to 80 vehicles a day, according to statistics of the Management Board of the Lao Cai Economic Zone.

More than 30,000 visitors flocked to the Sa Pa National Tourist Area to visit and experience the 2022 Fansipan Rose Festival last weekend, said Ms. Hoang Thi Vuong, Head of the Sa Pa town Culture-Information Office on April 25.

The Cu Chi district People’s Committee, in coordination with the district Farmers’ Association of Cu Chi Chi Minh District and the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, opened the Cu Chi Agricultural Products Market 2022 on April 25.

The Thua Thien-Hue Department of Science and Technology in association with the provincial Department of Tourism has organized an exhibition to promote and introduce products and services in the tourism industry.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on April 26 hosted a reception for Vice President of Laos Pany Yathotou, who is on an official visit to Vietnam.

Vietnam and Laos need to maintain the regular exchange of delegations and high-ranking officials and strive to turn economic, trade and investment cooperation into a pillar of bilateral relations, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on April 26.

On April 26, the flag salute ceremony and the inauguration of the national flag pole took place at the historical site of President Ho Chi Minh's memorial on Co To Island, Quang Ninh Province.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and her Lao counterpart Pany Yathotou compared notes on cooperation between Vietnam and Laos during talks in Hanoi on April 26.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Turkey on April 24 organized a meeting with overseas Vietnamese in Turkey on the occasion of Ambassador Do Son Hai beginning his term.

The Office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Trade Promotion Agency has informed the press that the EU market needed to import a large volume of seafood after the pandemic, opening up opportunities for Vietnamese seafood enterprises.

The delegation of the Central Public Security Party Committee’s Inspection Commission has coordinated with the Da Lak provincial Public Security to launch the tree planting festival in gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dang Hoang An positively assessed the relationship between Vietnam and the Netherlands, especially in the field of trade and investment, during a meeting with the Deputy Minister in charge of External Economic Affairs of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Haneke Schuiling, on April 25.

A ceremony was organized on April 24 in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture to debut the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Kumamoto with the attendance of more than 100 delegates from the Vietnamese community in Kumamoto Prefecture.

The 2022 humanitarian month will go through May to call on the community to unite with each other by good deeds, thereby strongly spreading many beautiful actions, contributing to building a united and compassionate community.

The Mekong River Delta in southern Vietnam is a vast maze of rivers, swamps and islands, home to floating markets, Khmer pagodas and villages surrounded by rice paddies.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Chairman of the Defence - Security Council and Commander of the people’s armed forces, paid a working visit to Military Region 1’s headquarters in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on April 25.

With the theme “Da Lat - Resort paradise”, the Lam Dong Tourism Golden Week 2022 has 3 cultural, tourist, culinary spaces and many response programs of agencies and businesses to introduce the new tourism products.

The Thai Nguyen Tourism Season 2022, themed “Discovering the legendary land”, officially opened in Song Cong city on April 24.

The To Mo Rong district People’s Committee on April 24 opened the Ngoc Linh ginseng market and special products associated with tourism as part of activities at the Kon Tum tourism forum.

Taiwan (China) mainly imported vegetables coded HS07 from Vietnam and the US in the first quarter of 2022, making up 47.9% of its total imported vegetables, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department of Export and Import.

"World Culinary Festival - Connecting Vietnam-Brazil" has recently been organized at Mezanino restaurant on the Brasilia TV Tower in Brazil, which opens the festival to introduce and promote Vietnamese cuisine at 14 big restaurants in the country from April 21 – May 8.

After the launching ceremony, leaders of Binh Chanh District in Ho Chi Minh City visited family members and offered incense to Hero of the Dong Den armed forces.

Vietnamese students at Binh Minh School, the first Vietnamese-language school in Switzerland, participated in a parade on April 24 to introduce Vietnamese traditional costumes and culture to Swiss friends in Zurich.

On April 24, the Tan Thuan Wind Power Plant in Ca Mau Province was inaugurated. This is the first wind power plant of Ca Mau province, on which construction started at the end of 2019.

A book festival was held by a group of Vietnamese students in Moscow on April 24, attracting a large number of students across the Russian capital city.

On April 24, the Union of Friendship Organizations of Vinh Phuc Province in collaboration with the Province’s Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Association held a meeting with Cambodian students in a program on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Cambodia (June 24).

On April 24, the Management Board of Vietnam National Village of Ethnic Culture and Tourism announced a series of cultural activities to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the southern liberation and national unification day (April 30) and May Day.

The People’s Committee of Quang Ninh province’s Mong Cai city and authorities of Dongxing city in China’s Guangxi province held online talks discussing measures to speed up the customs clearance between the two localities in the time to come in association with the effective implementation of COVID-19 prevention and control.

The representative agency of the Vietnam National Airlines (Vietnam Airlines) in Germany on April 20 cooperated with Thien Minh Group (TMG) to organize a seminar on tourism promotion and launch to sell products in the German market.

The Vietnamese Embassy in New Zealand and the HCMC Wood Processing Fine Arts Association recently cooperated to organize the symposium "New Zealand furniture market and the role of Vietnam in the furniture supply chain to the New Zealand market" in the online form.