Vietnam treasures its ties with France, an important partner in Europe and the world, especially in 2013 when the two countries are looking to lift bilateral relations to a strategic partnership level, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on May 21.

(CPV) – The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), in coordination with the World Bank in Vietnam, organised a conference titled “Sharing experiences in completing criteria for classification and categorization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs)” on May 21, in Hanoi.

According to the Department of Construction of the southern province of Dong Nai, on average, industrial zone housing projects can accommodate 500 workers per hectare; thus the province can provide 320,000 accommodations of this kind by 2020.

(CPV) - Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield joined by their percussionist Greig Stewart to play a stripped-down selection of his and the band's songs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city.

(CPV) - A new contingent of 88 Australia awards scholarships recipients will soon depart Vietnam to commence study in Australia, said the Australian Embassy to Hanoi on May 16.

(CPV) - At the invitation of the Na Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung, the Speaker of the Australian Parliament, Ms Anna Burke MP, is paying an official visit to Vietnam from May 22 - 24.

Delegates from the Vietnamese embassy and representative offices gathered together with members of the overseas Vietnamese (OV) community in London on May 18 to commemorate President Ho Chi Minh's birthday.

Vietnam has triumphed at a Southeast Asian Rowing Championships in Malaysia, bringing home five golds, four silvers and a bronze.

As of April 2013, the total number of tourists to the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa reached 220,000. Of this, Russia led the market with nearly 40,000 tourists, a year-on-year rise of 60 percent.

Thailand and Laos will hold the second joint cabinet retreat (JCR) in Chiang Mai later this week to discuss ways to boost bilateral cooperation, Thai Foreign Ministry has announced.

Vietnam’s socio-economic performance in 2012 and the first four months of this year was high on the agenda at the National Assembly (NA)’s fifth session that opened in Hanoi on May 20.

Japan’s prestigious economic daily “Nihon Keizai” on May 14 ran an article saying that Vietnam is becoming a leading smart phone producer in the world.