Vietnam Today

Politburo member and President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in Hanoi on April 4 to mark the 15th founding anniversary of the Party Organisation of the Central Agencies’ Bloc (April 11).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed on April 4 that the Government, ministries and agencies need to take all measures to effectively fulfill their tasks.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang on April 2 had a meeting with representatives of Vietnamese students and the overseas Vietnamese community in Toulouse city within the framework of his working visit to the South of the country.

Doctors from the Cho Ray-Phnom Penh Hospital recently provided medical examination for about 700 overseas Vietnamese and Khmer people in Cambodia’s Kandal province.

(CPV) - “As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, UNICEF Viet Nam is deeply concerned about children’s learning loss and the increasing risk of rising inequality for too many children in the country.

Increases in petrol prices, and those of food, food stuff, restaurant food and public transport services led to a rise of 0.7 percent in the consumer price index (CPI) in March compared to that of the previous month.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting in Hanoi on April 3 to look into the electricity supply and the provision of coal and gas for power generation.

The number of new COVID-19 cases continued to drop with 65,619 cases recorded in the past 24 hours from 4pm April 1 to 4pm April 2, including 3 imported cases, down 6,939 from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.

A delegation of the level-2 field hospital No.3 of Vietnam engaging in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan has paid a working visit to India’s level-2 field hospital in Malakal state to enhance exchange and cooperation in peacekeeping operations in the African country, according to the Ministry of National Defence’s Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

An exhibition of traditional musical instruments of Vietnamese ethnic groups will take place both online and offline at the Can Tho Museum in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from April 7-11, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The Vietnam International Aviation Expo 2022 (VIAE 2022) will be held on September 15-17 in Hanoi after being delayed for more than two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, heard a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on April 2.

Sound friendship and cooperation at all levels between Vietnam and Germany will be the foundation for their effective energy collaboration in the future, stated Patrick Graichen, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action at the first Vietnam - Germany Energy Day in Berlin on March 31.

A gathering was held on April 1 for Khmer ethnic members of the Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Association in Can Tho and Cambodian students of universities in this Mekong Delta city to mark Chol Chnam Thmay, the traditional New Year festival of Khmer people.

The National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD) together with the Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point (SPS Vietnam) co-organised a conferece on April 1 to handle technical problems and promote the export of Vietnamese agricultural, forestry and fishery products to China.

The Vietnam Report JSC has announced the top 10 prestigious real estate companies this year.

Many localities nationwide released breeding fish, shrimp, and other aquatic species on April 1 to help restore fisheries resources and also to mark the 63rd traditional day of Vietnam’s fisheries sector (April 1, 1959 - 2022).

A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand led by Ambassador Phan Chi Thanh on March 30-31 visited in Ratchaburi and Kanchanaburi provinces to foster tourism cooperation and twinning between them and Vietnamese localities.

On behalf of the Prime Minister, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Hang on April 1 symbolically presented 200 tonnes of rice worth nearly 100,000 USD as a gift from the Vietnamese Government and people to the Philippines to help address Typhoon Rai’s aftermath.

Within the framework of the program to promote ASEAN's preeminent products in China, the Department of Foreign Affairs of Nanning and the Consulate General of Vietnam in Nanning coordinated to organize the activity "Consuls General live-stream and ship goods".

Vietnamese Ambassador to Iran Luong Quoc Huy recently received Mr. Mohammad Taghi, Director of World Cotton Company, at the headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in Iran to share and learn about cooperation opportunities between businesses of the two countries in the field of textiles and handicrafts.

The Politburo held a meeting on April 1 to discuss a project to review the 10-year implementation of a resolution issued by the 11th-tenure Politburo on orientations and tasks for the development of the Hanoi Capital Region in the 2011-2020 period.

Japan strongly supports compliance with the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal Award on the East Sea arbitration case, Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Kashikawa Kazuhiko has twitted.

Seven Vietnamese universities meet international accreditation standards, according to the Quality Management Department of the Ministry of Education and Training.

Ho Chi Minh City currently has about 2,200 orphans caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that are well cared for, of which 39 have lost both their parents, 78 have lost their direct caregivers and over 2,000 have lost their mothers or fathers.

Nearly 1,700 Vietnamese people in Ukraine have been brought home safely on six flights arranged by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in conjunction with relevant ministries, sectors and representative agencies of Vietnam in the country.

The Inspection Commission of the Party Central Committee held the 13th meeting from March 28-31 to look into wrongdoings related to some ministries and agencies, including the COVID-19 test kit case at Viet A company.

Deputy Prime Minister (PM) Le Van Thanh has asked the Ministry of Transport to agree with relevant ministries and localities on the investment plan for the Bien Hoa - Vung Tau railway project and the Thu Thiem light rail project - Long Thanh international airport.

The two Vietnamese business associations in central and southern Laos have been established and elected the first Executive Board for the 2022-2027 term as member organizations of the Vietnam Business Association for Cooperation and Investment in Laos (BACI), according to Vietnam News Agency.

With a sharp increase in both volume and price, coffee is an agricultural product export group with an impressive start for 2022.

Vietnam’s newly-registered and adjusted overseas investment capital totalled over 211.45 million USD in the first quarter of 2022, equivalent to nearly 37% that of the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.